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Cups and Their Customs
『カップス・アンド・ゼア・カスタムズ』
A British compendium of the cup — the wine-based communal drink that preceded and surrounded the cocktail. Roberts and Porter survey recipes, toasts and table customs rather than bar technique.
- Author
- George Edwin Roberts; Henry Porter
- Published
- 1869
- Edition
- Second edition, 1869
- Publisher
- John Van Voorst, London
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Written in
- English
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History and recipes of cups; broader mixed drinks, not exclusively cocktails.
Background
First published in London in 1863 and reissued as the 2nd edition in 1869, it is a record of how Britons drank together — wassail bowls, claret cups, punch rituals — the social grammar the cocktail later bent to its own ends.