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Barroom Historian. Editor in Chief, Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails. Wrote Imbibe + Punch. Brooklynite. Anche trovato nel blu dipinto di blu.
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You Can’t Go Wrong with This Classic Gin Cocktail

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By David Wondrich
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The world’s spirits are like any one of us. They’ve each got their likes and dislikes, and their friends and enemies. Some of them are solitary sorts, not much given to mixing with their peers. Baijiu might be a fascinating and heady spirit when sipped in little (but frequently refilled) thimble-cups, but just try fixing cocktails with it. It even makes a lousy Old Fashioned, and nothing makes a lousy Old Fashioned. Others are utterly, unabashedly promiscuous. That vodka? It’ll mix with anything.
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Cocktails, an origin story

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By David Wondrich
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David Wondrich just published The Comic Book History of the Cocktail. No better time then to ask our industry’s pre-eminent historian the most simple – and complex – of questions: which country invented the cocktail? The cocktail is an American invention, right?
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Why Your Cocktail Is So Weird, According to David Wondrich

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By David Wondrich
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I don’t know what to order anymore. When I walk into a fancy cocktail bar—I should add right away that I absolutely love fancy cocktail bars and always have—and they slide me the menu, I feel like Elmer Fudd. It used to be, 10 or 15 years ago, that when you studied the menu at one of the then-new craft cocktail bars, the odds were pretty good that you knew what to expect from each drink.
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