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The Fabled Pour

The library

Cocktail history, shelved by era

Where drinks came from, told from the record. Where the record runs out and the stories begin, we say so.

  1. Prohibition 1920 to 1933

    • Prohibition · 1920 to 1933

      Prohibition and the American exile

      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.

      6 min read · 7 sources