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 traces orange, cherry, pineapple, soda, muddling, shortcuts, and competing purist reactions across Prohibition and the twentieth century. The account shows that fruit-bearing versions became culturally durable even as critics treated them as corruption.
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 49; supplied PDF sheet 54; Displayed book page 58; supplied PDF sheet 62.
Displayed book page 58; supplied PDF sheet 62
Displayed book page 49; supplied PDF sheet 54
Simonson, The Old-Fashioned, Displayed book page 49; supplied PDF sheet 54.
“The Fruit Wars,” “The Brandy Old-Fashioned,” and “Postwar Heyday”
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