A good cocktail, whether an Anarkali or James Bond's Classic Dry Martini, is worth a million on the summer menu. If you want to get high on cocktail wisdom, here's a new manual to leaf through.

"To shake or to stir, Ian Fleming's super spy James Bond worked wonders in taking the Classic Dry Martini to the tables of the discerning the world over," says "The Tulleeho Book of Cocktails" (Westland Ltd).

The toughest cocktail exercise is mixing, for it involves a flair for flavours and some measure of imagination. The first thing is to understand the ingredients, the book says. Try to imagine which ones will taste good when mixed.

Here is a lowdown for the perfect cocktail: