1925 ca Buckstone Book of Cocktails

Without the "Bread"—What of the Man? Without the Milk—What of the Baby? Without the "Cocktail"—What of the Dinner? For never let it be supposed that food alone was ever the whole evening s enter tainment. Garnish without talk the greyest caviare that once sought silver sanctuary in Crimean waters, or the rarest tongue that ever trembled in an ortalan s throat. Garnish these greatest of Nature's deli cacies with dullness, and mental night will fall upon the "Entree" and sleep woo gently the partaker of sweeter things. It is King Cocktail who stands sentinel before the entrance to "Old Rip's" "Sleepy Hol low" and it is he who many a time and oft decorates a quite indifferent "chef." It is this genial monarch, too, who trans forms the timid lover into a persistent "Romeo," the bashful virgin into a Victor ian spinster eager for adventure, and places into the hands of veteran .Casa- novas posies of memory bound with the faded triumphs of yester year. With King Cocktail as pre-meal host, strangers become friends, platitudes—epi grams, and the disappointed borrowers, grateful enemies.