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The World's Drinks and How to Mix Them

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The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them, interior book cover or frontispiece (paperback edition)

The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them is a cocktail manual by William "Cocktail" Boothby originally published in 1891, with revised editions in 1908, 1930 and 1934. The publisher was the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where Boothby worked.

The cover of the 1908 edition describes this as the "Standard Authority" by a "Premier Mixologist".

The book published the first recipe for the sazerac,[1] one of the earliest recipes for a dry martini,[2] as well as the Bronx cocktail.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "The Sazerac". The Institute for Cocktail Excellence. April 2011.
  2. ^ Charming, Cheryl (October 1, 2006). Miss Charming's Guide for Hip Bartenders and Wayout Wannabes: Your Ultimate One-Stop Bar and Cocktail Resource. Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN 9781402250040 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Greene, Philip (November 3, 2015). To Have and Have Another Revised Edition: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion. Penguin. ISBN 9780698407169 – via Google Books.
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