Firsthand career recollections differ from reliable evidence about nineteenth-century origins. The early American/European and Prohibition narratives are sweeping and partly speculative; the foreword's relative chronology should not override precise primary evidence.
Foreword; Introduction; From past to present; original analytical paraphrase of the supplied2010book.
DeGroff's foreword and Kosmas/Zaric's introduction place the authors in New York's late twentieth-century cocktail revival, with Pravda as an important meeting point and Employees Only opening in late December 2004. Their reinventions respond to changed ingredients, availability and contemporary tastes.
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Foreword; Introduction; From past to present
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DeGroff's foreword and Kosmas/Zaric's introduction place the authors in New York's late twentieth-century cocktail revival, with Pravda as an important meeting point and Employees Only opening in late December 2004. Their reinventions respond to changed ingredients, availability and contemporary tastes.
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PDF pp.7–21; Foreword; Introduction; From past to present. PDF ordinals, not inferred print pagination.
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Firsthand career recollections differ from reliable evidence about nineteenth-century origins. The early American/European and Prohibition narratives are sweeping and partly speculative; the foreword's relative chronology should not override precise primary evidence.
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