This is useful evidence of contested lore, not proof of an exact first date. Follow the cited 2007 Imbibe! and then its historical documentation. Do not silently equate this fruit-muddled Old Fashioned with every historical specification, or infer that Old Fashioneds predate juleps from the prose.
Beverages — Manhattan, Waldorf, Old Fashioned, Tropical Itch
Schmid repeats and then challenges the Lady Randolph Churchill Manhattan story using David Wondrich, and challenges a Pendennis Club invention account for the Old Fashioned with an earlier newspaper reference attributed to Wondrich. The chapter also supplies Waldorf and Tropical Itch recipes and uses hotel, political, and tropical-drink anecdotes as context.
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Beverages — Manhattan, Waldorf, Old Fashioned, Tropical Itch
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Evidence
Schmid repeats and then challenges the Lady Randolph Churchill Manhattan story using David Wondrich, and challenges a Pendennis Club invention account for the Old Fashioned with an earlier newspaper reference attributed to Wondrich. The chapter also supplies Waldorf and Tropical Itch recipes and uses hotel, political, and tropical-drink anecdotes as context.
Location and context
Supplied PDF screens 30–33; Beverages — Manhattan, Waldorf, Old Fashioned, Tropical Itch. PDF locators are not printed-page numbers.
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Annotation
This is useful evidence of contested lore, not proof of an exact first date. Follow the cited 2007 Imbibe! and then its historical documentation. Do not silently equate this fruit-muddled Old Fashioned with every historical specification, or infer that Old Fashioneds predate juleps from the prose.