173 Pre-Prohibition Cocktails: Potations So Good They Scandalized a President

by Tom Bullock

173 Cocktail Recipes from before America's Prohibition Era including numerous absinthe, champagne cocktail, julep, pousse, cobbler, and punch recipes. Book includes a resource page for ordering ingredients, 20 fun facts and stories about drink in history (George Washington's favorite drink, why Ben Franklin "flipped," how Winston Churchill's mother inspired a New York bartender to create the Manhattan, a 1913 scandal of the "I didn't inhale" variety involving Teddy Roosevelt, and over 40 turn-of-the-20th-Century beverage-related advertisements, illustrations, railroad beverage menus, and quotes. Introduction by George Herbert Walker (grandfather of former President George Herbert Walker and great-grandfather of current President George Walker Bush).

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 24, 2001

Reviews

[Niki Ganong · Rating 3 out of 5]

Born a slave, Tom Bullock rose to become "the Ideal Bartender". This is a reprint of his classic cocktail book. Would that the were more of the supplemental material printed alongside his recipes.


This book is also released in hardback under a different name, Classic Cocktails (Bullock w/DJ Frienz).

[KristenR · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked the historical inclusions (ads, artwork, quotes, and other contemporary media)

There's nothing groundbreaking about the cocktails, but if I had read this when it was published I may have felt differently since it was clearly written before the current renaissance of classic cocktails.