Use Simonson's critique as a research lead, not the final word. Seek contemporaneous menus, manuals, club records, and newspaper evidence.
Well suited to the Academy's permanent method for separating documented history, attributed accounts, local lore or legend, and popular repetition.
Simonson examines claims connecting Colonel James E. Pepper and Louisville's Pendennis Club to the Old-Fashioned, then points to chronological, recipe, and archival problems that make a clean invention story difficult to sustain.
Displayed book page 41; supplied PDF sheet 46
Displayed book page 36; supplied PDF sheet 41
“The Colonel” and “The Pendennis Club Claim”
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Evidence
Simonson examines claims connecting Colonel James E. Pepper and Louisville's Pendennis Club to the Old-Fashioned, then points to chronological, recipe, and archival problems that make a clean invention story difficult to sustain.
Location and context
“The Colonel” and “The Pendennis Club Claim”; Displayed book page 36; supplied PDF sheet 41; through Displayed book page 41; supplied PDF sheet 46.
Use note
Well suited to the Academy's permanent method for separating documented history, attributed accounts, local lore or legend, and popular repetition.
Qualification
Use Simonson's critique as a research lead, not the final word. Seek contemporaneous menus, manuals, club records, and newspaper evidence.