These are research leads, not archive verification. Abbott's survival to the early 1950 s on 29 conflicts with the 1940 s wording on 30. The handful-for 150 years assertion 18 conflicts with nineteenth-century diversity 21. Keep label stories and cocktail etymology as lore; do not adopt blanket 1906 or Prohibition claims as legal/history conclusions.
Historical overview 21–38; compare introductory market claim 18 and Sazerac 181–183.
Parsons cites the 13 May 1806 Balance cocktail definition and reports Wondrich's interpretation of earlier English drink and bitters references. The later Peychaud coquetier origin narrative cannot by itself explain a term already documented earlier. The book repeats Angostura family and label traditions, and supplies dates for Hostetter, Abbott and Sazerac-related ownership.
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Historical overview 21–38; compare introductory market claim 18 and Sazerac 181–183.
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Parsons cites the 13 May 1806 Balance cocktail definition and reports Wondrich's interpretation of earlier English drink and bitters references. The later Peychaud coquetier origin narrative cannot by itself explain a term already documented earlier. The book repeats Angostura family and label traditions, and supplies dates for Hostetter, Abbott and Sazerac-related ownership.
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Annotation
These are research leads, not archive verification. Abbott's survival to the early 1950 s on 29 conflicts with the 1940 s wording on 30. The handful-for 150 years assertion 18 conflicts with nineteenth-century diversity 21. Keep label stories and cocktail etymology as lore; do not adopt blanket 1906 or Prohibition claims as legal/history conclusions.
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