Bartender's Guide

by Trader Vic, Ray Sullivan (Illustrator)

From the Preface of this 437-page book Trader Vic "A bartender's guide, along with a few pertinent remarks on mixing drinks, chilling and serving wines, and a thousand or so recipes for drinks no sane person would ever drink, can include signs of the zodiac, tell how to take spots off your suits, give remedies for curing hiccoughs and removing warts, include a complete chart on the rise and fall of the tides, tell what hour the sun comes up, add a little after-dinner magic, and end up with a full chapter on horse racing. Just to make this book unique, I am going to stick to bartending. This is intended to be a guide for the professional bartender along with all the drink formulas I've collected in the past few years. There's nothing very original about this volume. Most of the stuff has been rehashed in a dozen different books, but the treatment may be different, and I think there a are a few worthwhile bits of information and recipes to interest the old hand as well as the novice."

437 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1948