Ross Bolton

It's a nice little book, a perfect reproduction of the original from 1926.
Very essential, there's nearly nothing other than the cocktails recipes. There is, actually, a short introduction and the story - quite unlikely, I must say, but fun - of how the name `cocktail' came about. At the end there are some tips on how to properly handle a dinner, as far as alcohol is concerned.
Then the book is just cocktail recipes, lots of them, grouped - it appeared - more or less chronologically: first the old fashioned, then the newest, then some very new one. There is even a section of non-alcoholic recipes.

I bought it because I'm interested in Prohibition. I think some of these recipes are not connected with the American Prohibition and are more European. I mean, it can be a bit deceiving, but this is a fun book nonetheless.… (mehr)

600. "JIMMY" Late of Ciro's London. Ciro's was a hip London establishment (before another popular one opend up in Los Angeles in 1940), that had as their bartender Harry MacElhone (author of Barflies and Cocktails and ABC of Cocktails), at which Jimmy took over when Harry went off to Paris, Harry's Bar (formerly New York Bar in Paris).This book is one of the only books with the drink with Pegu Club Cocktail, and has quite a few pages of interestingly worded toasts. And in its remarks answers what was at that time Old Time Gin and Dry Gin, as well as a very different grenadine than pomegranates or red syrup.… (mehr)