Ron Daiquirí Coctelera Cocktail Book (1948)
This slim 32-page volume, Ron Daiquirí Coctelera Cocktail Book, is a real fascination. Ron Daiquirí rums appear more than dozen times in such classic bar books as the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book. So its popularity made it overseas at the height of the 1920s London cocktail scene. How popular was this rum? The company had […] read more…
Club de Cantinero de la Republica de Cuba: Manual Oficial by Gerardo Corrales (1930)
Six years after El Club de Cantineros de la Republica de Cuba was registered with the Cuban government as a legitimate professional association and issued its first Manual del Cantinero, a more in-depth volume. Club de Cantinero de la Republica de Cuba: Manual Oficial by Gerardo Corrales provides reference material on the origins of various wines, food service […] read more…
Manual del Cantinero by León Pujol and Oscar Muñiz (1924)
On 9 May 1924, Cuban bartenders met in the billiard room at Hotel Ambos Mundo to draft a series of regulations written by Manuel Blanco Cuétara and drafted by attorney Manuel Zavala. After a couple of interim meetings, the final draft of the organisation’s charter was approved by the government on 27 June 1924, registering […] read more…
Famous Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ‘Em by Stanley Clisby Arthur (1938)
One of the greatest historical cocktail destinations to be found, New Orleans has been the birthplace of many a classic compound: Sazerac, the Vieux Carré, Ramos Gin Fizz, Grasshopper, the list is endless. Written by journalist and Louisiana historian Stanley Clisby Arthur, Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ‘Em is a delightful travel guide […] read more…
Floridita Cocktails by Constante Ribalaigua Vert (1939)
Bar La Florida had gained international status after Constante Ribalaigua Vert inherited the Havana bar-restaurant in 1918 from owner Don Narcisco Sala Parera. Every year, beginning in 1934, La Florida gave away souvenir booklets of the recipes that tempted visitors from around the globe and captured the hearts of celebrities such as Ernest Hemingway. The bar […] read more…
Sloppy Joe’s Bar (1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1939)
No less than 37 stools and all are taken! Such was the impressive spectacle that lay before Sloppy Joe’s two master cantineros. This perennially crowded bar on Animas Street between Prado and Zulueta Streets was a requisite destination from the 1930s to the 1960s for any visitor to Havana. José Abeal y Otero arrived in Havana from Spain in 1904 […] read more…
The Gentleman’s Companion, Volume II: An Exotic Drinking Book by Charles H Baker Jr (1939)
In 1931, American journalist Charles H Baker Jr took an odyssey, searching for the finest food and drink in such obscure corners as Cairo, Mindinao, Calcutta, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Borneo, Jaipur, and Yokohama. Everywhere he went, everywhere he looked there was a bar, a bartender, and some unique, carefully prepared variation on the words […] read more…
Drinking Cups & Their Custom by Henry Porter & George Roberts (1869)
Londoners Henry Porter and George Roberts were not fans of the new American bars nor of cocktails that were displacing traditional British compounds such as punches and cups. By 1860s, the colonial intrusion into British drinking habits insinuated by Reform Club chef Alexis Benoit Soyer, Leo Engels at the Criterion, the Bowling Alley Bar at the Cremorne […] read more…
Cups & Their Custom by Henry Porter & George Roberts (1863)
Londoners Henry Porter and George Roberts were not fans of the new American bars nor of cocktails that were displacing traditional British compounds such as punches and cups. By 1860s, the colonial intrusion into British drinking habits insinuated by Reform Club chef Alexis Benoit Soyer, Leo Engels at the Criterion, the Bowling Alley Bar at the Cremorne […] read more…
When It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba by Basil Woon (1928)
Privately published in 1928 by Horace Liveright, British playwright and journalist Basil Woon captured the energy that took hold of Havana, as Americans flocked by the thousands to drink, gamble and party amid the tropical beauty that is Cuba. Welcome to When It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba. Of special interest to bartenders is Chapter 2, […] read more…
El Arte del Cantinero by Hilaro Alonso Sanchez (1948)
Published in 1948, El Arte del Cantinero was compiled and written by cantinero Hilario Alonso Sánchez who had established in 1911 the Employees Union Café and was an active component of the Club del Cantineros of Cuba: teaching, lobbying for the legal rights of bartenders, and serving as the club’s chief chronicler and historian. This […] read more…
Cocktails: Bar La Florida by Constante Ribalaigua Vert (1934, 1935, 1937, 1939)
El Floridita (an endearing diminutive for the phrase La Florida) is at the top of countless bartenders and cocktailians’ list of watering holes to visit within their lifetimes. And of course, that visit includes sipping a Daiquirí, as Floridita is recognised as the birthplace of a few classic Daiquirí variations. As a promotion, the bar published a […] read more…
Bacchus Behave! by Alma Whitaker (1933)
Los Angeles Times’ gossip columnist Alma Whitaker wrote the lovely, witty tome on post-Prohibition drink and drinking—Bacchus Behave! The Lost Art of Polite Drinking—adding with more than a few blurbs from film director Rupert Hughes, actors Clark Gable, Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Tom Mix, and blockbuster producer Cecil B. De Mille. As you can gather from […] read more…
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