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    W. C. Whitfield's Mixed Drinks and Cocktails: An Illustrated, Old-School Bartender's Guide
    W. C. Whitfield's Mixed Drinks and Cocktails: An Illustrated, Old-School Bartender's Guide
    W. C. Whitfield's Mixed Drinks and Cocktails: An Illustrated, Old-School Bartender's Guide
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    W. C. Whitfield's Mixed Drinks and Cocktails: An Illustrated, Old-School Bartender's Guide

    By W. C. Whitfield, Tad Shell and Joaquín Simó

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    We may go to Europe for our chefs, but Europe comes to us for our bartenders.” W. C. Whitfield

    In the Gay Nineties, the American bartender was considered an institutionhis fame spread across the globe and, according to Whitfield, visitors to America bowed before his skill in concocting tempting mixtures.”

    Whitfield felt this attraction and admiration of the American bartender was because Americans will try anything once.” We enjoy experimenting and, when it comes to mixing drinks, we stop at nothing.” This led to much creativity behind the bar.

    W. C. Whitfield’s Mixed Drinks & Cocktails combines two fully-illustrated books of recipes from this time periodJust Cocktails (published in 1939) and Here’s How: Mixed Drinks (1941)to teach readers everything they need to know about mixing drinks. In addition to information about equipment and measurements, this collection includes more than six hundred recipes, including:

    The Bronx Express
    Ladies Delight
    Corpse Reviver
    Brandy Blazer
    Uncle Sam Highball
    And many more!

    Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateNov 17, 2015
    ISBN9781510700741
    W. C. Whitfield's Mixed Drinks and Cocktails: An Illustrated, Old-School Bartender's Guide

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      W. C. Whitfield's Mixed Drinks and Cocktails - W. C. Whitfield

      A Real American Institution

      We of this new world known as the United States of America are prone to yield the palm of cookery to the old world on the other side of the Atlantic.

      As witness of this point take note of the fact that the famous chefs of our grandest hotels are almost invariably French, or Italian, or Spanish—usually of Latin origin, anyway. And every historic restaurant of gay New York and old New Orleans, almost without exception, gained its place in the sun because of the culinary skill of a foreigner.

      But when it comes to the art of mixing drinks—well, that is a horse of another color. In that field the new world tops the old—and how! The American bartender of the Gay Nineties was an institution. His fame spread to the four comers of the globe, and visitors to our shores from the continent bowed before his skill in concocting tempting mixtures of liquid lightning. He was—and still is—in a class by himself. We may go to Europe for our chefs, but Europe comes to us for its bartenders.

      Just why the American excels in this field is hard to say, but it is possibly for the same reason that we lead the world in inventive genius (an acknowledged fact). That reason is that we will ‘‘try anything once". We are not so tied by age-old conventions, are not so content to let custom rule us. We like to experiment in all fields, and so—when it comes to mixing drinks—we stop at nothing.

      It is possible, of course, that many digestive tracts have been impaired by these experiments (we will concede that much to the abstainers), but the discovery that a smooth, mellow Manhattan cocktail will work miracles with a laggard appetite certainly makes up for such damages. And the soothing qualities of Creme de Cacao blended with Cream de Cow has done such wonders for those same digestive tracts that we can surely forgive some mistakes.

      So here’s to the Knight of the Brass Rail, and his many good deeds —quite a few of which you will find on the following pages: —

      USEFUL INFORMATION

      COCK TALES & COCKTAILS

      The tale, or perhaps we should say the tales, of the cocktail, all go to prove that it is the most American of all mixed drinks.

      Whether we take as our authority the story of the barmaid at the revolutionary tavern who tossed together a drink for some of Lafayette’s officers, and as an afterthought snatched some feathers from a nearby rooster with which to spear the cherries, or whether we pin our faith to the legend of the buccaneers of the Spanish Main who stirred their concoctions of liquors looted from captured galleons with the plumage of West Indian Cocks, the important point is still this—the cocktail is All American, both in origin and name.

      Their specific names are legion. There are more different kinds than any collection could ever contain. The most popular ones, those that are served at all bars, both private and public, number something like a score.

      We have attempted to list these in the following group: —

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