Angostura Bitters Drink Guide 1908 Reprint This book was most likely a promotional piece, and so it has over 200 recipes (with and without bitters) of food and cocktails. Since it was made to be popular, it features only the most popular drinks at the time like Mamie Taylor, Whiskey Smash, and Gin Sour. It is a great book to date cocktails as they emerged or disappeared from favor.
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Bar La Florida Cocktails 1935 Reprint La Florida Bar, also known as the "Floridita", invented the Daiquiri. And even if they didn't as some may claim that in fact it was American mining engineers drinking at the Venus bar in Santiago that invented it, La Florida Bar made it famous, with a little help from papa...
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Boothby's 1934 Reprint World Drinks and How to Mix Them This book was written by "Cocktail" Bill Boothby, once a minstrel performer, then San Francisco bartender and author of "American Bar-Tender", and finally California Assemblyman. This 1934 book with over 150 mixed drinks, first published right after prohibition, is fantastic as an "unabridged encyclopedia of all popular beverages".
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Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide 1887 Reprint How to mix all kinds, plain and fancy. drinks. This book contains clear and reliable directions for mixing all the beverages used in the United States, together with the most popular British, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish recipes; embracing punches, juleps, cobblers, etc in endless variety.
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Shake 'Em Up! 1930 Reprint Nothing like being banned to really make a book exciting! Printed 3 years before prohibition was repealed, this book has page 68 removed at the request of United States Attorney because it featured a recipe on how to make Gin!
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The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks - 1948 Reprint Since its appearance sixty years ago, This book has become, in an exceedingly crowded field, an undisputed classic. Its essential truths have stood the passage of time, and the authors subtle, sly humor is as seductive as ever.
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The Old Waldorf Astoria Bar Book 1935 Reprint The Old Waldorf hotel was built next door to William Astor's aunt, on the present day spot on the Empire State Building, because of a dispute with her. When she moved uptown the Old Waldorf Hotel joined with the Astoria hotel by a structure known as Peacock Alley, becoming eventually one entity. As for drinks, the Waldorf Astoria is said to have been location for the invention of the Bronx and popularizer of the Old Fashioned.