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PRAISE FOR IMBIBE! BOOKS BY DAVID WONDRICH TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION CONTENTS PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION FOREWORD INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 | “PROFESSOR” JERRY THOMAS: JUPITER OLYMPUS OF THE BAR

WHO READS AN AMERICAN BOOK? AN AMERICAN AND A SAILOR, TOO IN REALMS OF GOLD THE SPORTING FRATERNITY MIXING EXCELLENT DRINKS EPILOGUE

CHAPTER 2 | HOW TO MIX DRINKS, OR WHAT WOULD JERRY THOMAS DO?

I. HOW THEY USED TO DO IT II. HOW TO DO IT NOW III. SPIRITS IV. QUANTITIES

CHAPTER 3 | PUNCHES

I. A LARGE GLASS OF PUNCH

BRANDY PUNCH VANILLA PUNCH PISCO PUNCH COLD WHISKEY PUNCH HOT WHISKEY PUNCH GIN PUNCH THE COLLINS TWINS: JOHN AND TOM CLARET PUNCH MILK PUNCH MOUNTAIN PUNCH MISSISSIPPI PUNCH ST. CHARLES PUNCH PRINCE OF WALES’S PUNCH NATIONAL GUARD SEVENTH REGIMENT PUNCH SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT PUNCH HOT MILK PUNCH GENERAL BURNSIDE’S FAVORITE BOSTON RUM PUNCH THE HERALD PUNCH

CHAPTER 4 | THE CHILDREN OF PUNCH: COLLINSES, DAISIES, FIZZES, SOURS, COBBLERS, COOLERS, AND A GLANCE AT THE SWIZZLE

I. THE LESSER PUNCHES: FIXES AND SOURS (AND A COUPLE OF BOSTONIAN FANCIES)

BRANDY, GIN, SANTA CRUZ, OR WHISKEY FIX BRANDY, GIN, SANTA CRUZ, OR WHISKEY SOUR PISCO SOUR MORAL SUASION KNICKERBOCKER

II. DAISIES AND FIZZES

WHISKEY, BRANDY, GIN, OR RUM DAISY (OLD SCHOOL) GIN, BRANDY, RUM, OR WHISKEY DAISY (NEW SCHOOL) GIN, WHISKEY, BRANDY, OR SANTA CRUZ RUM FIZZ SILVER FIZZ MORNING GLORY FIZZ NEW ORLEANS FIZZ, ALIAS RAMOS GIN FIZZ

III. THE COBBLER

SHERRY COBBLER CHAMPAGNE COBBLER

IV. THREE POPULAR COOLERS

THE JOE RICKEY (AND THE GIN RICKEY) FLORODORA SINGAPORE GIN SLING, ALIAS STRAITS SLING

V. A GLANCE AT THE SWIZZLE

GREEN SWIZZLE

CHAPTER 5 | A HANDFUL OF EGG DRINKS

EGG NOGG

BALTIMORE EGG NOGG EGG NOGG (INDIVIDUAL) GENERAL HARRISON’S EGG NOGG TEXIAN EGG NOGG TOM & JERRY SHERRY FLIP

CHAPTER 6 | TODDIES, SLINGS, JULEPS, AND SUCH

I. RUM, BRANDY, WHISKEY, OR GIN TODDY, HOT

APPLE TODDY WHISKY SKIN BLUE BLAZER

II. GIN, BRANDY, WHISKEY, OR RUM SLING, COLD

JERSEY SUNSET

III. JULEPS AND SMASHES

JOE REDDING’S JULEP PRESCRIPTION JULEP MINT JULEP PINEAPPLE JULEP BRANDY, GIN, OR WHISKEY SMASH

IV. SANGAREE

PORT WINE SANGAREE

V. THREE YANKEE FAVORITES

HOT SPICED (OR BUTTERED) RUM STONE FENCE BLACK STRAP (ALIAS THE BLACK STRIPE)

CHAPTER 7 | THE COCKTAIL, PROPERLY CONSIDERED

DR. STOUGHTON’S ELIXIR MAGNUM WHAT’S IN A NAME? AMERICAN ROOTS PREQUEL: THE ORIGINAL COCKTAIL I. PLAIN, FANCY, IMPROVED, AND OLD-FASHIONED

PLAIN BRANDY, GIN, OR WHISKEY COCKTAIL FANCY BRANDY, GIN, OR WHISKEY COCKTAIL IMPROVED BRANDY, GIN, OR WHISKEY COCKTAIL SAZERAC COCKTAIL OLD-FASHIONED WHISKEY, BRANDY, OR HOLLAND GIN COCKTAIL

CHAPTER 8 | ENTER VERMOUTH

I. THE ORIGINALS: VERMOUTH, MANHATTAN, AND MARTINI COCKTAILS

VERMOUTH COCKTAIL MANHATTAN COCKTAIL MARTINI COCKTAIL DRY MARTINI COCKTAIL GIBSON COCKTAIL

II. OTHER VERMOUTH COCKTAILS

METROPOLE COCKTAIL ROB ROY COCKTAIL STAR COCKTAIL RACQUET (CLUB) COCKTAIL SARATOGA COCKTAIL BIJOU COCKTAIL WEEPER’S JOY BAMBOO COCKTAIL PRINCETON COCKTAIL BROOKLYN COCKTAIL BLUE MOON COCKTAIL SAN MARTÍN COCKTAIL PRESIDENTE COCKTAIL

CHAPTER 9 | EVOLVED COCKTAILS, OR WHAT HATH ORGEAT WROUGHT?

I. EXOTIC BLOOMS

JAPANESE COCKTAIL EAST INDIA COCKTAIL WIDOW’S KISS ABSINTHE COCKTAIL

II. THE (OTHER) FIZZ

CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL JERSEY COCKTAIL BUCK AND BRECK PRINCE OF WALES’S COCKTAIL MORNING GLORY COCKTAIL

III. MISCEGENATION, OR CRUSTAS, WET HENS, AND COCKTAIL PUNCHES

BRANDY, WHISKEY, OR GIN CRUSTA COFFEE COCKTAIL WET HEN MODERN COCKTAIL BRONX COCKTAIL JACK ROSE COCKTAIL CLOVER CLUB COCKTAIL DAIQUIRI COCKTAIL AVIATION COCKTAIL WARD EIGHT LAST WORD

IV. THE STINGER

CHAPTER 10 | BITTERS AND SYRUPS

I. BITTERS

JERRY THOMAS’S OWN DECANTER BITTERS STOUGHTON’S BITTERS BOKER’S BITTERS

II. SYRUPS

GUM SYRUP (TRUE) GUM SYRUP (BARTENDER’S) PINEAPPLE, RASPBERRY, AND OTHER FRUIT AND BERRY SYRUPS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A FEW RECOLLECTIONS OF THE DISTANT PAST INDEX

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