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 frames the Old-Fashioned as a whiskey expression of the 1806 printed cocktail definition: spirit, sugar, water, and bitters. He uses that structural continuity to explain both the drink's historical importance and its modern revival.
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 7; supplied PDF sheet 15; Displayed book page 9; supplied PDF sheet 17.
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Simonson, The Old-Fashioned, Displayed book page 7; supplied PDF sheet 15.
“The Grandfather of Them All”
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