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01. Aperitif
02. Birth of Cocktail
03. Whiskey Drinks
04. Juleps
05. Absinthe Drinks
06. Gin Drinks
07. Rum Drinks
08. Pousse Cafes
09. Brandy Drinks
10. Cafe Brulot
11. Flips
12. Slings
13. Swizzle
14. Punches
15. Wassail Bowl
16. Eggsnogs
17. White Ribbon Punch
18. The Contradiction
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1. Aperitif |
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Hail New Orleans that for more than a century has been the home of civilized drinking. From the time of its settlement by the French, through the domination of the Spanish, and occupation by the Americana after the Louisiana Purchase, the flowing bowl and the adept mixing of what went in it has constituted as high an art in this Creole city as the incomparable cooking for which it is famed.
The quality of mixed drinks as served in New Orleans has always appealed to the sophisticated taste, but the drinks and their histories are forever linked with the past of this pleasure-loving city out of which has come so much that is beautiful and gay, and so much that is worth preserving.
It was here that your pious Creole lady guilelessly brewed muscadine wine and blackberry cordial and peach brandy chocked with authority. It was here that your gentlemen of the old school, more or less pleasantly corned in season and out, made a cult of preparing a drink and a ritual of downing it. It was here that your most modern of American beverages, the cocktail, first came into being and was given its jaunty name.
With a desire to acquaint the world—or that part of the world that may be interested—with the art of mixing a drink as it is done in New Orleans, the author of this book has cajoled from old and new experts the recipes handed down through succeeding generations and presents them herein for your delectation with a smile and a "Sante!"
Why We Clink Glasses
(A Toast far Toasters)
When friends with other friends contrive
To make their glasses clink,
Then not one sense of all the five
Is absent from a drink.
For touch and taste and smell and sightEvolve in pleasant round, And when the flowing cups unite We thrill to sense of sound.
Folly to look on wine? Oh, fie On what teetotallers think . . . There're always five good reasons why Good fellows like to drink.
E. B. A.
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