Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails

by Haigh, Ted

• ISBN13: 9781592530687
• ISBN10: 1592530680
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Quarry Books

Summary

Theauthenticvintage cocktail has made a comeback. This book does not repeat the timeworn cocktails of old. While old-fashioneds, martinis, rusty nails, margaritas, and negronis are all great drinksuand this book includes the most authentic recipesuyou can find them anywhere.Here, historian, expert, and drink aficionado Dr. Cocktail has hand-picked 80 drinks rarely made today, and all of them deserve revival. Some are from the nineteenth century, some from the Prohibition era, and some from just after World War II, as the golden age of the cocktail was waning. All are retrieved from extremely uncommon sources. In fact, some of these drinks were found carefully penned into old cocktail manuals or on scraps of paper and may never have been published. They are true treasures, indeed.Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktailspays homage to the great bartenders of the past and the beverages they created, lost in time, but still grand and full of potential. If you have half the fun looking at this book and trying these recipes as the author did putting them together, a great party is sure to ensue.

Author Biography

Ted Haigh, a.k.a. Dr. Cocktail, makes his living as a graphic designer in the Hollywood movie industry and has worked on such spectacles as O Brother Where Art Thou?, American Beauty, and The Insider. Although he has been diligently researching cocktails since the Æ80s, his moonlighting as a cocktail historian became public in 1995, when he hosted the America Online spirits boards. In the intervening years, he has been quoted and referenced by the New York Times, Esquire, the Malt Advocate, and MenÆs Journal, as well as various books and other media. He is a partner in CocktailDB.com, an encyclopedic database of cocktail knowledge.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 8
Cocktail Archaeology	p. 10
Recipes
The Alamagoozlum Cocktail	p. 21
The Jack Rose Cocktail	p. 24
The Fred Collins Fiz	p. 28
Barbara West Cocktail	p. 29
The Jupiter Cocktail	p. 30
The Mother-In-Law Cocktail	p. 32
The Algonquin Cocktail	p. 34
The Avenue Cocktail	p. 36
The Golden Dawn	p. 38
The Twentieth Century Cocktail	p. 40
The Brandy Crusta	p. 42
The Corpse Reviver #2	p. 44
The Modernista	p. 47
Vieux Carre Cocktail	p. 48
Soyer au Champagne	p. 49
The Coffee Cocktail	p. 50
The Delicious Sour	p. 52
The Secret Cocktail	p. 54
Blood and Sand	p. 56
East India Cocktail	p. 58
The Brooklyn Cocktail	p. 59
The French 75	p. 60
The Seelbach Cocktail	p. 62
The Georgia Mint Julep	p. 64
Pink Gin	p. 66
The Income Tax Cocktail	p. 68
Barnum (Was Right) Cocktail	p. 70
The Bebbo Cocktail	p. 71
The Filmograph Cocktail	p. 72
The Aviation	p. 74
Chatham Hotel Special	p. 75
La Floridita Daiquiri	p. 76
The Widow's Kiss	p. 80
The Derby Cocktail	p. 83
The Millionaire Cocktail	p. 84
Knickerbocker a la Monsieur	p. 87
The Monkey Gland	p. 88
The Scoff Law Cocktail	p. 90
The Blackthorn Cocktail	p. 92
The Blinker Cocktail	p. 93
Palm Beach Special	p. 94
Park Avenue Cocktail	p. 95
Pegu Club Cocktail	p. 96
Picon Punch	p. 98
The Calvados Cocktail	p. 100
Pendennis Cocktail	p. 102
Ritz Sidecar	p. 103
Doctor Cocktail	p. 104
Satan's Whiskers Cocktail	p. 106
The Moscow Mule	p. 110
The Communist	p. 112
The Fogcutter	p. 114
Fogcutter (Early)	p. 115
Curacao Punch	p. 116
Seventh Heaven	p. 117
The Straits Sling	p. 118
The Rose	p. 120
Have a Heart Cocktail	p. 120
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Cocktail	p. 121
The Vesper	p. 122
Crimean Cup a la Marmora	p. 124
Vowel Cocktail	p. 125
Leatherneck Cocktail	p. 126
Lucien Gaudin Cocktail	p. 127
Milk Punch	p. 128
Don the Beachcomber's Zombie	p. 130
Great Old Standards	p. 132
Resource Guide	p. 137
Bibliography	p. 140
About the Author	p. 141
Afterword	p. 142
Index	p. 143
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