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Subject: Re: Prohibition Style Drinking & its Bars
From: Graphixaddict
Posted: Sat Oct 7. 2006, 14:37 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Prohibition Style Drinking & its Bars"  by Thinking Bartender  (Sat Oct 7. 2006, 13:54 UTC)
comon... dont over think this... no person deciding to build a bar sits around 
and says "hmmm i just dont think i can make this bar prohibition themed 
because these drinks are totally out of era!" its done cause a speakeasy has 
the idea of doing something wrong, sneaking in the back door to find a wild 
party going on with people in pinstripe suits and women dressed polka dotted 
party dresses. your just not going to find someone whos going to serve bathrub 
gin and rotgut liqour at their themed speakeasy bar. 
B


> I am talking about Speakeasies, and their relationship to the drinks 
> of the 1920s. None of the classic cocktail, and cocktail books, were 
> made/ published in the US. 
> 
> Craddock was in London.
> Frank Meier was in Paris.
> MacElhone was in London, and then Paris.
> Robert Vermiere was in Paris.
> Loads more were in Cuba.
> 
> None of the famous bartenders, and their creations were in the US 
> during prohibition. So how could they have been in Speakeasies?
> 
> There seems to have been a big transatlantic interest in the US for 
> what it was they were missing during their dry period, so presumably 
> the US bartenders overseas were sending some recipes back to the US. 
> Though I doubt it happened the other way around. 
> 
> Speakeasies to me are just gin joints run by the underworld for 
> money, not for the art of cocktail making.
> 
> As for morning dram drinking, only when I am on a bender. Plus I have 
> only drank once in the morning this past year, not from want of 
> trying. Anyways, I meant the habit of dram drinking morning, noon and 
> night. 
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> George S.
> 
> 
> g.sinclair[at]yahoo.co.uk
> 
> http://www.wiki.webtender.com/wiki/


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