Wondrich, David. Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to “Professor” Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar. New York: Perigee, 2007.
Rejects the Jennie Jerome story, preserves competing accounts, dates the first printed mention, and documents ratio and whiskey-type variation.
David Wondrich, Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash (New York: Perigee, 2007), PDF sheets 301–311.
David Wondrich, Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash (New York: Perigee, 2007), PDF sheets 301–311.
PDF sheet 311
PDF sheet 301
Wondrich, Imbibe!, PDF sheets 301–311.
Chapter 7 — Manhattan Cocktail
Fresh audit 2026-10-01 after all 419 supplied pages were read and individually visually inspected. PDF 301–311 supports competing accounts and formula differences. Black's identification as William Black is tentative (305). Generic whiskey remains generic (308); no recipe-corpus count is a market-share estimate.
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