Tag Archives: Cuban cocktails

Manzarbeitia y Compania Cocktail Book (1959)

Cocktails were so popular in Havana by the late 1950s, even distributors such as Manzarbeitia y Compania got on the bandwagon. In 1959, the company published a hardcover cocktail book that featured recipes using its broad portfolio of spirits. The Manzarbeitia y Compania Cocktail Book offers up wines, spirits, liqueurs, beer, cider, aguardiente, amaros, bitters, anise […]

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 […]

Cuban Cookery by Blanche Z de Baralt (1931)

Yes. This is a cookbook. It is a Cuban cookbook filled with some great recipes to tantalise your tastebuds for Criollo cuisine. But it is the appendix to Cuban Cookery that most appeals to bartenders. The appendix starts on page 119 and contains not only obvious Cuban classics but some that are rarely seen such […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]