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MIXED DRINKS ARE ESSENTIALLY AMERICAN (NYT, 1911)

William H. Taft The Bronx Cocktail (Gin, Sweet & Dry Vermouth, Orange Juice)

The twenty-seventh president got into hot water over the Bronx Cocktail, from the New York Times. Sep 24, 1911:
"One annoying feature of President Taft's journey through the West has been the controversy caused by the presence of Bronx cocktails at a breakfast party he attended. One does not have to be a clergyman or a total abstainer to reprehend the practice of drinking cocktails before breakfast."

Read it all here (NYT site, PDF)

Kelley Slagle

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