The causal narrative is Simonson's synthesis. Trace the named newspaper passages and period manuals before publication.
Explains historical versioning: the Old-Fashioned develops from a style of ordering and making a Whiskey Cocktail rather than appearing as a single-day invention.
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.
Displayed book page 21; supplied PDF sheet 26
Displayed book page 10; supplied PDF sheet 18
“First, the Whiskey Cocktail” and “The Rebellion”
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Evidence
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.
Location and context
“First, the Whiskey Cocktail” and “The Rebellion”; Displayed book page 10; supplied PDF sheet 18; through Displayed book page 21; supplied PDF sheet 26.
Use note
Explains historical versioning: the Old-Fashioned develops from a style of ordering and making a Whiskey Cocktail rather than appearing as a single-day invention.
Qualification
The causal narrative is Simonson's synthesis. Trace the named newspaper passages and period manuals before publication.