Simonson, Robert. The Old-Fashioned: The Story of the World's First Classic Cocktail, with Recipes and Lore. Photographs by Daniel Krieger. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2014.
Simonson emphasizes lump sugar, bitters, water, a large piece of ice, a small spoon, and sometimes customer-controlled whiskey as recurring parts of late-nineteenth-century Old-Fashioned service.
Robert Simonson, The Old-Fashioned: The Story of the World's First Classic Cocktail, with Recipes and Lore (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2014), Displayed book page 22; supplied PDF sheet 28; Displayed book page 27; supplied PDF sheet 31.
Displayed book page 27; supplied PDF sheet 31
Displayed book page 22; supplied PDF sheet 28
Simonson, The Old-Fashioned, Displayed book page 22; supplied PDF sheet 28.
“Of Muddlers and Spoons”
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