The recent passing of Sean Connery sent us into the James Bond film archives and to the bar cart. Digging into the website flemingsbond.com, collector Bruce Allen’s expert take on author Ian Fleming’s novels about the consummate British spy, we learn new details, including Bond’s drink preferences. He sips a double gin and tonic with two halves of a lime on his balcony in Jamaica in Dr No. In Diamonds Are Forever, he orders an after-dinner stinger, which incorporates creme de menthe and brandy. But it’s the martini we most associate with the suave spy, thanks to Bond’s request in the 1964 film Goldfinger that his medium dry vodka martini be “shaken, not stirred.” However, Bond seemed to prefer the Vesper martini, named for fictional double agent Vesper Lynd. The Vesper made appearances in the 1953 book Casino Royale and in the same-named 2006 film. We like it just as Daniel Craig’s Bond orders it, “Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it over ice and add a thin slice of lemon peel.” While we might not live the Bond lifestyle, we can break out the cocktail shaker and pretend.