1943 Cocktail Digest by Oscar Haimo of the Hotel Pierre

has mixeil drinks for the world's best known celebrities, and is so much the master of his art, that he can jiiihre the ingredients and formula of any drink by merely tasting. Aspiring always to liie best in life, Haimo has mastered not only the wines of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and England, where he has made a close study of wine-processing and spirit production, hut also the languages of these countries as well. However, the greatest thing in this mixologist's life is the 'cocktail par excellence." As one columnist puts it: "Oscar measures, pours, stirs, or shakes, as the case may be, tbe ingre dients as if he were presiding at tbe discovery and birtb of some new chemical process which will stir the soul of all mankind." So now, as President of the International Barmen's Associa tion and maitre de bar of the exclusive Hotel Pierre, Haimo presents the rules for

The Better Cocktail.

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