1934 Gordon's Cocktail & Food Recipes

The Cocktails of the World ~HILE the Cocktail is America's gift ~ to the worId of drinking, other na- tioBs have contributed many to the large flock of popular concoctions classified under the common title of "Cocktails." Ameri– can hotels and barmen have received credit for many of these mixtures originating in foreign countries, and have renamed them. The international barmen 'have carried to America the best of the old-world art of mix– ing. The foreign mixtures are uniformly . "smoother," more palatable and incidentally less harmful. All the "dazers" or "shockers" are hereby dedicated to the American Prohibitionist, who by his resort to force appears to have defeated the very purpose which he so earnestly and so unwisely set out to accomplish. Serving the Cocktail The cocktail should be served as an appe– tizer-before the meal and always with the food-bit. Served just before the meal, the food-bit with the cocktail takes on the charac- 37