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After working as a bartender over 20 years, he started to write about bartending and bars for FoodArts magazine. [2] His first book, The Bartender's Bible, was published in 1991, with his then-wife, Mardee Haidin Regan. [3] Later, he became a cocktail columnist for Wine Enthusiast, Food & Wine and San Francisco Chronicle.
But when omitting alcohol from a drink you need to consider a range of factors: alcohol adds body and richness to drinks, it balances sweet flavors, and its astringency adds texture.
The book was first published with 120 recipes, including for "cocktails, fizzes, punches, highballs, toddies, and long drinks." The book sold for 50 U.S. cents. The book became one of many cocktail guides released as early as the 1940s, though its marketing helped it thrive: signature elements including its logo, red cover, and size.
The "Mr. Boston" name is known not only for its brands of distilled spirits, but also for its unique reference book, Mr. Boston Official Bartender's Guide, used by both professional and home bartenders as the "Bible of Booze".
The cocktail may have been invented by a bartender at Chasen's, a restaurant in West Hollywood, California, to serve then-child actress Shirley Temple. However, other claims to its origin have been made. [7] Temple herself was not a fan of the drink, as she told Scott Simon in an NPR interview in 1986: The saccharine sweet, icky drink?
David Augustus Embury (November 3, 1886 – July 6, 1960) [1] was an American tax attorney, mixologist and author of The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks (1948), an encyclopedia of the 20th century cocktail. [2] [3]
Bartender, Skyline Hotel Malmö, 1992. A bartender (also known as a barkeep or barman or barmaid or a mixologist) is a person who formulates and serves alcoholic or soft drink beverages behind the bar, usually in a licensed establishment as well as in restaurants and nightclubs, but also occasionally at private parties. Bartenders also usually ...
Rob Chirico: Field Guide to Cocktails: How to Identify and Prepare Virtually Every Mixed Drink at the Bar. Quirk Books 2005, ISBN 978-1-59474-063-3, pp. 208–210; Ted Naigh: Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. Quarry Books, ISBN 978-1-59253-561-3, pp. 251–252; Anthony Giglio, Ben Fink: Mr. Boston Official Bartender's Guide.