Spending all that time and effort on the perfect cocktail ingredients, then using half-melted, chlorine-infused ice is as ridiculous as putting a nodding dog in a Porsche. Time to tune in, turn on and chill out, says Alice Lascelles

This month: Why do we frown upon buying asparagus flown in from Peru, yet we think nothing of ordering a bottle of gold-filtered water from the foothills of the Himalayas?