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 describes the nineteenth-century Whiskey Cocktail as increasingly embellished with liqueurs and other modifiers, then presents calls for an old-fashioned cocktail as a return to a simpler sugar-bitters-water-spirit form.
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 10; supplied PDF sheet 18; Displayed book page 21; supplied PDF sheet 26.
Displayed book page 21; supplied PDF sheet 26
Displayed book page 10; supplied PDF sheet 18
Simonson, The Old-Fashioned, Displayed book page 10; supplied PDF sheet 18.
“First, the Whiskey Cocktail” and “The Rebellion”
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