1936 Shaking in the 60's by Eddie Clarke

Talking Cocktails

Fortunately my wandering round the world gave me a lot ofscope to collect all types of odd recipes—and in the following pages I am submitting quite a few for your interest and delectation. Combined with them aresome old favourites which have withstood the test of time and remain as popular today as they were during the exotic Cocktail Thirties. No doubt you have wondered many times who was the inventor of the first Cocktail. You are not alone in these wonderings, because I have given the matter a lot of thought. Historians, as all schoolboys know,are really dry as dust merchants, so they have not bothered to record who it was and we are very much in the dark. It could have been the Incas or ancient Egyptians, or even the

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