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Jack's Manual

Jacob Grohusko tended bar at Baracca's restaurant in New York and published a manual that kept evolving through the 1910s. The 1910 printing carries the first known published recipe for the Brooklyn cocktail.

Author
Jacob Abraham Grohusko
Published
1910
Edition
1910 edition
Publisher
J. A. Grohusko, New York
Published in
United States
Written in
English

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Host
Library of Congress
Format
Page scans + searchable text
Access
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Background

Jack's Manual is the record of a working New York bar on the eve of a crisis decade for the cocktail — Prohibition would close the trade Grohusko described within nine years of this edition.

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