Here’s a short, delicious, and lethal concoction. Good when you’re in search of instant numbness. Serve in a lowball glass.

Ingredients

　　2 ounces (60 ml) cheap sake

　　2 ounces (30 ml) vodka

　　Ice

　　Dash or two of Worcestershire sauce

　　1-ounce (30-g) piece perfect raw beef (from the tenderloin), on a skewer and well chilled

　　Freeze a lowball glass. Shake the sake and vodka with ice and strain into the glass. Serve piscine (with ice) with the Worcestershire dash sinking, and stir with the skewer of beef.

　　Reprinted with permission from The Art of Living According to Joe Beef by Frédéric Morin, David McMillan & Meredith Erickson, copyright © 2011. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, Inc.