1934 My New Cocktail Book (2 nd edition) by G F Steele

MY NEW COCKTAI L BOOK

Taken from Joseph Hergesheimer's

"SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA HABANA"

which contains much wisdom concerning drinks, cigars and the art of fine living

"The moment had arrived for a Daiquiri, it was a delicate compound:if elevated my contentment to an even higher pitch. Unquestionably the cocktail on my table was a dangerous agent,for it held in its shallow glass bowl slightly encrusted with undissolved sugar the power of a contemptuous indifference to fate; it set the mind free of responsibility: obliterating both memory and tomorrow, it gave the heart an adventitious feel ing of superiority and momentarily vanquished all the cele brated, the eternal fears. Yes, that was the danger of skillfully prepared intoxicating drinks...The word intoxicating ade quately expressed their power, their menace to orderly, mono tonous resignation. A word, I thought further, debased by moralists from its primary ecstatic content... but then, with a fresh Daiquiri and a sprig of orange blossom in my buttonhole, it meant less than nothing."

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