The Bartender's Guide: How to Mix Drinks: The Bon-Vivant's Companion

In 1862 Jerry Thomas, the most celebrated bartender of his day, famed for the flaming Blue Blazer he tossed between two silver-plated mugs, published the first bartender's guide to appear in the United States. His book gathered the punches, juleps, cobblers, smashes, cocktails, crustas, flips, sangarees and toddies of the American bar into 236 numbered recipes, including the first cocktail recipes ever printed in a book, and it became the model for the bar manuals that followed.

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