The library
Where drinks came from, told from the record. Where the record runs out and the stories begin, we say so.
The grand hotel bar · 1893 to 1939
Between the 1890s and the 1930s the grand hotel bar became the cocktail's finishing school: the Waldorf's brass rail, the Savoy under Ada Coleman and Harry Craddock, the Ritz in Paris, the Long Bar at Raffles.
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Prohibition · 1920 to 1933
When the United States went dry in 1920, its bartenders did not stop working. They moved. Paris, London and above all Havana took them in, and the cocktail came home thirteen years later speaking rum and French.
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