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The Ideal Bartender

Tom Bullock was a St. Louis bartender of national reputation, and The Ideal Bartender is the first cocktail book known to be written by an African-American author — a landmark of the profession.

Author
Tom Bullock
Published
1917
Edition
1917
Publisher
Buxton & Skinner, St. Louis
Published in
United States
Written in
English

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Introduction by George Herbert Walker.

Background

Published by the Buxton & Skinner printing house in 1917, three years before national Prohibition took effect in 1920, it preserves the repertoire of the pre-Prohibition country-club bar — juleps, cobblers and the drinks of a clientele that trusted its barman.

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