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I recently stumbled upon an old newspaper article from the New York times archive where the journalist chronicled a cocktail that was designed by a Johannesburg bartender called the Victory Cocktail. It apparently required a lot of eggs. So many that the popularity caused a shortage in wartime Johannesburg...
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Unfortunately I don't have a grandma about to ask. She died many years ago but I did manage to salvage an old school bottle of Angostura bitters from the pocessions she left behind (God bless my old Granny's soul, may she rest in peace)! The bottle is pictured bellow on the left, next to the...
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I inherited a bizarre booze collection last year, though mostly pedestrian there were a couple of gems, old bottle of parfait amour, crappy but profoundly tacky old bottle of Suntory (that I polished off with a kingly steak while re- watching Lost in Translation) and an old bottle of Angostura that I...
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Just to kick things off, here's something I stumbled upon. This is, as far as I know, the earliest mention of a strainer--and here it's a "cocktail strainer," no less, indicating that people were serving their drinks up (unless the strainer was going in the glass and people were sipping...