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Cocktailary

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Barkeeper's Ready Reference

A. V. Bevill's pocket manual is among the earliest American books to give cocktails their own headed chapter — recipes listed bare, as working notes for the man behind the bar.

Author
A. V. Bevill
Published
1871
Edition
1871
Published in
United States
Written in
English

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www.loc.gov/item/07000673 ↗
Host
Library of Congress
Format
Page scans + searchable text
Access
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Original recipe manual.

Background

Published in New York in 1871, it sits between Thomas's founding manual and the professional literature that followed — evidence that 'the cocktail' was by then a settled category worth indexing.

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