Gamle, støvede cocktailbøger er en af de vigtigste kilder til … gamle (og forhåbentlig knap så støvede) cocktails – og jeg har brugt en del tid på at samle så mange som muligt sammen.
Her følger nogle af de mest betydningsfulde bøger om cocktails og drinks, sorteret efter udgivelsesår, og med links og mulighed for download af pdf-version indsat hvor muligt:
1862: Jerry Thomas The Bar-tenders Guide or How to Mix Drinks
(genudgivet 1887 i udvidet udgave)
1863: Henry Porter & George Edwin Roberts Cups and Their Customs
1867: >Ukendt< The American Barkeeper
Link til indhold
1867: John Marquart Six Hundred Receipts
1869: William Terrington Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks
1869: Haney’s Steward and Barkeeper’s Manual
1871: A. V. Bevill Barkeepers’ Ready Reference
1878: Leo Engel American and Other Drinks
1882: Harry Johnson The Bartenders manual
(genudgivet 1888, 1990 og 1934)
1884: O. H. Byron The Modern Bartenders’ Guide
1886: Joseph Fleischman The Art of Blending and Compounding Liquors and Wines
1891: William Schmidt The Flowing Bowl
1892: James Mew & John Ashton Drinks of The World
1895: C. F. Lawlor The Mixicologist
1895: Bartenders’ Association of New York City Official Handbook and Guide
1895: >Ukendt< Bartender’s Guide
1898: >Ukendt< Cocktails How to Make Them
1900: George J. Kappeler Modern American Drinks
1900: William T. Boothby American Bartender
1901: J. E. Sheridan The Complete Buffet Manual or How to Mix Fancy Drinks
1902: Frederic Lawrence Knowles The Cocktail Book – A Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen
1903: Tim Daly Daly’s Bartending Encyclopedia
1906: A. Lyman Phillips A Bachelor’s Cupboard
1906: George L. Spaulding How to Mix Drinks
1906: Jacques Louis Muckensturm Louis’ Mixed Drinks
1907: William T. Boothby The World’s Drinks And How To Mix Them
1907: Charles Smith Smacks and Smiles
1910: Jack A. Grohusko Jack’s Manual – Recipes for Fancy Drinks
1912: Charlie Paul Recipes of American and Other Iced Drinks
1912: Wehman Bros. Bartender’s Guide
1912: Charley Mahoney Hoffman House Bartender’s Guide
1914: Jaques Straub Drinks
1914: George R. Washburne & Stanley Bronner Beverages De Luxe
1916: Hugo R. Ensslin Recipes for Mixed Drinks
Link til indhold
1917: Thomas Bullock The Ideal Bartender
1919: Harry McElhone Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails
1919: Harvey Washington Wiley Beverages and Their Adulteration
1925: Nina Toye & A. H. Adair Drinks – Long and Short
1927: Harry McElhone Barflies and Cocktails
1930: Harry Craddock The Savoy Cocktail Book
1930: Jere Sullivan The Drinks of Yesteryear
1931: Albert Stevens Crocket Old Waldorf Bar Days
1933: Julien J. Proskauer What’ll You Have?
1934: Harman Burney Burke Burke’s Complete Cocktail & Drinking recipes
1936: Frank Meier The Artistry of Mixing Drinks
1937: Stanley Clisby Arthur Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix’Em
1937: William J. Tarling Approved Cocktails
1937: William J. Tarling Café Royal Cocktail Book
1938: Bud Carrol The Art of Bartending and Mixing Drinks
1946: Charles H Baker The Gentleman’s Companion – Being an Exotic Drinking Book or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask
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1948: Bernard DeVoto The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
1949: Leonard Wolf et al. Bottoms Up – Guide to Pleasant Drinking
1951: Ted Saucier Bottoms Up!
1958: David Embury The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks
2002: Dale DeGroff The Craft of the Cocktail
2003: Gary Regan The Joy of Mixology
2004: Ted Haigh Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails
2010: David Wondrich Punch: The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl