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style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mM-6ob8i_h4YG0hdc_4NLXCwtEYmRQa-etIbYGbVAo3plubMFUZPgOPkoTUGpUmnKxJXJSw4y-fM1q_rZp_BZ53eQe7PBsQ_lQvYCIlGDFTrfid2MgqbaFDTbcWS0qRbY77ixu-9qk5_KSHqfvo_1ryVyXZAwL3sEp4XecKqgMyvFdiSfDtD0cov3g/s1565/PopsMasterMixer.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1565&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1245&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mM-6ob8i_h4YG0hdc_4NLXCwtEYmRQa-etIbYGbVAo3plubMFUZPgOPkoTUGpUmnKxJXJSw4y-fM1q_rZp_BZ53eQe7PBsQ_lQvYCIlGDFTrfid2MgqbaFDTbcWS0qRbY77ixu-9qk5_KSHqfvo_1ryVyXZAwL3sEp4XecKqgMyvFdiSfDtD0cov3g/w159-h200/PopsMasterMixer.png&quot; width=&quot;159&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;I’ve always had a fascination for the origin and why of names, and for names that seem a bit quirky.&amp;nbsp; Here in Las Cruces, we had a pecan processing plant named New Aces.&amp;nbsp; I often wonder how many people, other than their owners and employees, realize it is a play on the Spanish word for nuts “nueces?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;Why is Bruce Upton Henderson’s nickname “Pop” and what is the story behind &lt;i&gt;Pops Master Mixer&lt;/i&gt; being dedicated to “....my buddies from World War One and World War Two”?&amp;nbsp; His backstory is interesting if not entirely informative. Today’s blog is an attempt to create a brief biography about the man who wrote the book. In the future, I plan to address the book itself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;Bruce Upton Henderson stated in a passport application that he was born in Penn Station, Pennsylvania, 21 May 1894.&amp;nbsp; His work history starts early.&amp;nbsp; By the age of 16 he was a helper in a glass factory. At age 20, in 1914, he enlisted in the United States Marines and soon reported for duty at Pearl Harbor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;A model Marine, Private Henderson became Orderly to Commandant of Station, Pearl Harbor in 1917.&amp;nbsp; His enlistment lasted until September 1918, and he could definitely be considered lucky, having spent the Great War largely at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;Following the war, Henderson spent two years doing odd jobs, including pipefitting, in the Honolulu shipyard.&amp;nbsp; Henderson re-enlisted in the Marines in 1921.&amp;nbsp; That August, Corporal Henderson applied for a passport for the purpose of a “pleasure” trip to Japan, planning to return in “6 months.”&amp;nbsp; Anyone with military experience will find this unusual for newly enlisted Marine Corporal. In his passport application, he states he is a resident of Honolulu and describes his occupation as “Soldier.”&amp;nbsp; Bruce is 5’6” tall, black hair, dark brown eyes and has a scar on his right cheek.&amp;nbsp; Best of all, we have a passport photo. It shows a smiling young man with his curly hair cut “high and tight” looking very much like a Marine.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWpB5DlGWbiOvfUzE9tGlNjq5Vvfr9z7vuDx_uINFqOSKf97FGMGiITTf1b7_oBb-zmj0ffh8AKLyORnlqcU5Pawjhd1hnDoonRE-gPu_qoM45ZlZn724RJtxGte3f2MfDUL4n5iTFUERKFJVfM-OAKJbQN6eVQ05ANBBXPjTUGhfeNio58hp2grIfw/s763/BUHenderson.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;763&quot; data-original-width=&quot;760&quot; height=&quot;193&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWpB5DlGWbiOvfUzE9tGlNjq5Vvfr9z7vuDx_uINFqOSKf97FGMGiITTf1b7_oBb-zmj0ffh8AKLyORnlqcU5Pawjhd1hnDoonRE-gPu_qoM45ZlZn724RJtxGte3f2MfDUL4n5iTFUERKFJVfM-OAKJbQN6eVQ05ANBBXPjTUGhfeNio58hp2grIfw/w192-h193/BUHenderson.jpg&quot; width=&quot;192&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bruce Upton Henderson, Passport Photo 1921&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;On 29 August 1921 he departed on the S.S. Shinyo Maru to Yokohama, Japan. For WWII history buffs, this is not the hell ship of P.O.W.’s sunk off the Philippines in 1944, but rather an earlier Japanese ocean liner with a capacity of 275 first class, 75 second class and 800 steerage. What Henderson did in Japan and where he got the funds to do it, remains a mystery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;Muster reports show Corporal Bruce U. Henderson being transferred from Mare Island, California back to Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii in July 1922, then being sent to Guam in December assigned to the 42nd Company, where he re-qualifies as Expert Rifleman and Expert Pistol and made rifle range instructor. While in Guam, an illness outbreak places Henderson and many other marines in quarantine.&amp;nbsp; Returning to Pearl Harbor in 1923 where he continues as rifle range instructor, now Sgt. Henderson is awarded the Good Conduct Medal and his character is described as “excellent.”&amp;nbsp; In 1924 Henderson re-enlists, becomes detached to the fleet rifle team at Ft. Shafter, Hawaii and travels, in August 1925, on the U.S.S. Seattle with the team to Melbourne, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgavXGaeXytL1d4E1KGVWRb4NRbZdpzbD8VEFjUiOjPhiS1lCe49-35luZZEFSBEGmZRHEF_xrJFAnNUW9UgnsC3bIRdwEMoz8lvBukYBcemSMwOum3OzM6xPQYvy-J1fH-YItWtg-JSR6BvYzVV8348_XAd1ExmAt_xKPXmpUAiYCpsXYmXcwrH2mVew/s1199/USS_Seattle.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;710&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1199&quot; height=&quot;189&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgavXGaeXytL1d4E1KGVWRb4NRbZdpzbD8VEFjUiOjPhiS1lCe49-35luZZEFSBEGmZRHEF_xrJFAnNUW9UgnsC3bIRdwEMoz8lvBukYBcemSMwOum3OzM6xPQYvy-J1fH-YItWtg-JSR6BvYzVV8348_XAd1ExmAt_xKPXmpUAiYCpsXYmXcwrH2mVew/s320/USS_Seattle.jpg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;At this point in his career things start to get bumpy. Muster reports show that Henderson in October 1925 was AOL, Absent On Leave, and that he “self-surrendered” as straggler after missing the sailing of the U.S.S. Seattle. This landed him in the Navy brig in New York, NY awaiting trial. He was given a General Court Martial in January 1926.&amp;nbsp; The official findings were “Absence from station and duty after leave expired” and sentenced to be &quot;reduced to rank of Private and to be confined for six months, and then to be discharged from the United States Naval Service with a bad-conduct discharge.”&amp;nbsp; Henderson’s previous good service soon got him an amended sentence. According to official records, “the department, on February 1 1926, remitted the Bad Conduct Discharge, provided that he during confinement for a period of six (6) months thereafter conducts himself as such a manner as, in the opinion of his Commanding Officer, warrants his retention in the service.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;In May 1926, now Private Henderson was “Released from confinement and restored to duty” and granted 20 days furlough then report to Marine Barracks San Diego.&amp;nbsp; That October, he was assigned to the 28th MG &amp;amp; Howitzer Co., 2nd Bn, 4th Regiment Western Mail Guards, part of the Marine Corps famous U.S. Mail Guards whose duty was to protect the mail at a time when it was a target for gangsters. Per Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote style=&quot;border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;“When our Corps goes in as guards over the Mail, that Mail must be delivered or there must be a Marine dead at the post of duty.&quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;Soon deciding to move on, Henderson was Honorably Discharged in December 1926 and spends the next several years doing a variety of jobs including pipe fitter in Hawaii, as a salesperson, a police officer and, by 1942, a shipyard worker in California.&amp;nbsp; In 1943, Henderson enlists once again, but in the U.S. Navy.&amp;nbsp; He is assigned to the U.S.S. Griffin, a submarine tender, as a Petty Officer 3rd class SK3C.&amp;nbsp; In modern Navy terms, a logistics specialist. Shortly thereafter, he became a Chief Specialist, Shore Patrol and Security, a Master-At-Arms.&amp;nbsp; With the end of WWII, Henderson returns to Hawaii and marries his wife, Ruby, a former Navy employee, in 1947 in Kaimuki.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;It is easy to see why Bruce Upton Henderson dedicated Pop’s Master Mixer to his “buddies” of both World Wars.&amp;nbsp; He certainly spent most of his adult life with, and around, those who served.&amp;nbsp; As to the moniker “Pop,” that too is an easy one.&amp;nbsp; By the time he enlisted for the third time, Henderson was 49 years old. Easily the geezer in any gathering of war-time seamen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;t is likely that Henderson had a comprehensive knowledge of bars in Honolulu between 1914 and 1950, and the libations offered, I could find no record of his actually working behind a bar, other than his stating so in &lt;i&gt;Pop&#39;s Master Mixer&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;and he was a member of the Reno, Nevada bartenders local. I did find that a fellow naval yard employee, Charles Rousseau, in whose home Henderson’s marriage was hosted, had in fact worked as a bartender in several Honolulu bars.&amp;nbsp; This certainly would have afforded Henderson a friend that may have provided him opportunity to work as a bartender during the period between military enlistments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxOcV4D2xscZhSRlZs5zjUVPCCl8_QqRsp_7YxACBF3UupdxDaziIlI3zuKvwPSUjWkKBasRqQzFCfbKABwE5kz3esnW5PWGDQrFoY-__QmP5-6C7typ3I3T_jkCuIs4S8kVUXxOTPnZJRDVfEJzjefmqoZS34T51zDp5hcQf8taHXiVLO0kZAVm8Gcg/s1075/ChasRousseau.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1046&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1075&quot; height=&quot;202&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxOcV4D2xscZhSRlZs5zjUVPCCl8_QqRsp_7YxACBF3UupdxDaziIlI3zuKvwPSUjWkKBasRqQzFCfbKABwE5kz3esnW5PWGDQrFoY-__QmP5-6C7typ3I3T_jkCuIs4S8kVUXxOTPnZJRDVfEJzjefmqoZS34T51zDp5hcQf8taHXiVLO0kZAVm8Gcg/w208-h202/ChasRousseau.jpg&quot; width=&quot;208&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;C&lt;i&gt;harles Rousseau, Veteran&#39;s Club, Oahu&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;After writing &lt;i&gt;Pops Master Mixer&lt;/i&gt;, Bruce Upton Henderson fades from the records. His final home was in Phoenix, Arizona where he passed away on 14 December 1965 at the age of 73.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0-bBRlg1fxSscsIr6beEwp6snVvPcKYWFGFZxBg7gUSdd8fOrvX5RkdIjkzFHZEXzG9tURduW5evl3XtYRAlEMhvEmB4lx1_vdfg2H5EesXCod419yruTG2QXUvawcUng3nA0JHFk7AAMbp25Onv4REV5OrnbGNZuFX77H1uiz4yc3VsE7Pk-7hDnFw/s228/BUHmarker.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;137&quot; data-original-width=&quot;228&quot; height=&quot;137&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0-bBRlg1fxSscsIr6beEwp6snVvPcKYWFGFZxBg7gUSdd8fOrvX5RkdIjkzFHZEXzG9tURduW5evl3XtYRAlEMhvEmB4lx1_vdfg2H5EesXCod419yruTG2QXUvawcUng3nA0JHFk7AAMbp25Onv4REV5OrnbGNZuFX77H1uiz4yc3VsE7Pk-7hDnFw/s1600/BUHmarker.png&quot; width=&quot;228&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://offthewaterwagon.blogspot.com/feeds/8875416315114944020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=688387386073661324&amp;postID=8875416315114944020&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/688387386073661324/posts/default/8875416315114944020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/688387386073661324/posts/default/8875416315114944020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://offthewaterwagon.blogspot.com/2022/10/whats-in-name-pop-henderson-author-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Carlos Madera</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15186590484206011202</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mM-6ob8i_h4YG0hdc_4NLXCwtEYmRQa-etIbYGbVAo3plubMFUZPgOPkoTUGpUmnKxJXJSw4y-fM1q_rZp_BZ53eQe7PBsQ_lQvYCIlGDFTrfid2MgqbaFDTbcWS0qRbY77ixu-9qk5_KSHqfvo_1ryVyXZAwL3sEp4XecKqgMyvFdiSfDtD0cov3g/s72-w159-h200-c/PopsMasterMixer.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688387386073661324.post-3993578089142768344</id><published>2021-03-28T04:00:00.015-06:00</published><updated>2021-03-29T21:18:29.341-06:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="apple jack"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cocktails"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="libation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mixed drinks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="mixology"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="saloon"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tall drinks"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="whiskey"/><title type='text'>Head Barkeeper’s Drink List 1911  A Window into a Pre-Prohibition Hotel Bar</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot; class=&quot;MsoTitleCxSpFirst&quot; style=&quot;border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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36. something to do around the house and not really wanting to do anything, I was
37. sorting books and came across an envelope with a piece of pre-Prohibition mixology
38. ephemera I had purchased on a whim and then forgotten. Thinking it would be
39. better to mount it on an acid free board and mat rather than leaving it in a
40. battered envelope, it became that day’s task, giving me a chance to use some of
41. my left-over supplies from when photography had been a hobby.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p>
42.  
43. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The roughly
44. 11.25”x17.5” poster’s letterhead reads “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mack Latz, Hotel Alamac, Atlantic City, 1911</i></b>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
45.  
46. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi86W-nN3zW0a3mPijl59cnio8BqjbFt3NTgaWXyOvSd9Z1QGRnrwCvkMKAY5VCwXck1m0g3cayYteXGVJjlPmPRFfMboJCZW71FEEaxKrXK7Z6O-ehRrTwyD8hLxkvIR3XivNZj8GxMxy8/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="281" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi86W-nN3zW0a3mPijl59cnio8BqjbFt3NTgaWXyOvSd9Z1QGRnrwCvkMKAY5VCwXck1m0g3cayYteXGVJjlPmPRFfMboJCZW71FEEaxKrXK7Z6O-ehRrTwyD8hLxkvIR3XivNZj8GxMxy8/w237-h154/image.png" width="237" /></a></div><p></p>
47.  
48. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the advertising
49. of the day, the popular Hotel Alamac, in Atlantic City, was “</span><em>Plumb
50. on the Boardwalk</em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">”
51. and claimed to be the only hotel with its own pier. The hotels name came from
52. combining the first names of the couple who owned it, Mack and Allah Latz.  According to a ladies magazine article of the
53. period Allah, Mack’s wife, managed the hotel. Since Mack was regarded as a
54. respected businessman, it seems likely he would have been something equivalent
55. to a CEO.</span></p>
56.  
57. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beneath the
58. letterhead, the document is titled “<b><i>Head Barkeeper’s Drink List</i></b>” with
59. the admonition “</span><em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",serif;">To
60. be posted at back of bar</span></em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.”  The poster
61. is printed on a lightweight paper, showing its age with small tears, chips and
62. staining.  Intended as an aid for hotel
63. barkeeps, there are short, specific instructions for the preparation and
64. serving of 88 libations listed in alphabetical order.  The drinks are all old standards with the exception
65. of the “<b>Alamac Special</b>,” a drink seemingly
66. absent from bar books I could consult.  A
67. similar drink in cocktail form appears in Meier’s 1936 </span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",serif;"><b><i>Artistry of
68. Mixing Drinks</i></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>
69. </i></b>as the <b>Maple Leaf</b>.  Today’s Apple Jack Sour is very similar to the original Almanac Special.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1nwQOMy1eyDgRy08qkc9C1KOtm-UKZ9xCM6uDAnxbtZzb_jBSVE9_NJKeL0YRtWehtT22pJpvs5K92F0zQ2EtKpJhv4nibVch2hRA4ogYUJ5Y7etynenHn1yc0KcMJ0mbGhdw5-uw0SVu/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="76" data-original-width="323" height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1nwQOMy1eyDgRy08qkc9C1KOtm-UKZ9xCM6uDAnxbtZzb_jBSVE9_NJKeL0YRtWehtT22pJpvs5K92F0zQ2EtKpJhv4nibVch2hRA4ogYUJ5Y7etynenHn1yc0KcMJ0mbGhdw5-uw0SVu/" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prices are absent
70. and the print size small, making it unlikely bar patrons would be able to read
71. it.  At the end of the list there are house rules including <i>“</i></span><span class="QuoteChar"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Ladies may not stand at the Bar</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>”</i> and that <i>“</i></span><i><span class="QuoteChar"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Drinks must not be given or sold
72. to anyone on the Jag List</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">”.</span></i></p>
73.  
74. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">While keeping
75. ladies from standing at the bar is amusing, though not surprising considering
76. the era, the “Jag list” is worthy of note. At first, I assumed it was the
77. drunkard equivalent of the unofficial list we kept in the Emergency Room, many pre-politically
78. correct years ago, of drug seeking “frequent flyers.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">  </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not so, it was much more complicated than
79. that.</span></p>
80.  
81. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to the </span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",serif;"><i><b>American
82. Dictionary and Cyclopedia</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> of 1896</span><span class="QuoteChar"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">,</span></span></p>
83.  
84. <p class="Body" style="border: none; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“To have a jag on” was slang for “being in a
85. state of partial intoxication: the idea being that when a man is fully
86. intoxicated he has a </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">load</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, but that
87. when he is only partly intoxicated he has on only a </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">jag</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.”</span></i></p>
88.  
89. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">By the early
90. 1900’s there are mentions of mayors, judges and others having jag lists of  “<i>those
91. to whom liquor may not be sold.</i>” These were not merely unofficial lists. They
92. were required by laws responding to drunkenness. For example, a </span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",serif;"><b><i>New York
93. Times</i></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
94. article of 1915, said that East Orange, New Jersey</span></p>
95.  
96. <blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; text-align: left;"><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“…is going to have a jag list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Men who are addicted to drink and are
97. constantly giving their families and police trouble, are to have their names pasted
98. up on all licensed liquor places, and the owners and their employees are to be
99. instructed to refuse them drink of any kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> 
100. </span>In the event of their failure to comply with this command they will be
101. subject to a fine.” </i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
102.  
103. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Other
104. jurisdictions went even further by pulling and refusing liquor licenses to
105. establishments that failed to meet “jag list” laws.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">  </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In Hazelton, Pennsylvania it was reported
106. that</span></p>
107.  
108. <blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; text-align: left;"><i>“Liquor
109. dealers asked that the city furnish them with photographs of those in the habit
110. of “taking a wee drop too much,” on the “jag list” in other words, so that they
111. may recognize them, and help in stopping the practice.”</i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoQuote" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
112.  
113. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS5sUjhCB347U1B_0K3YAWA4jAvIIOFIAUblTQmQuhwo73FIQPKqxYPK9a7DZG2Wr2sbbRekhzQuuYjydVvcTp_G4JPNn20MsVyBOqRLdIZe6cshfIiHZwhpbfT7AW0tWOn2vDetvwEXmp/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="207" data-original-width="177" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS5sUjhCB347U1B_0K3YAWA4jAvIIOFIAUblTQmQuhwo73FIQPKqxYPK9a7DZG2Wr2sbbRekhzQuuYjydVvcTp_G4JPNn20MsVyBOqRLdIZe6cshfIiHZwhpbfT7AW0tWOn2vDetvwEXmp/w205-h262/image.png" width="205" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The house rules in
114. the Head Barkeeper’s Drink List also specify the bars operating hours, which
115. must<br /> have been regulated by Atlantic City codes. It states <i>“</i></span><span class="QuoteChar"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Bar doors must be closed at
116. 11:50 Saturday night.  Bar lights out at
117. 12 sharp.  Bar opens Sunday night 12
118. o’clock for one hour.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>”</i> That one hour between 2400 and 0100 must certainly have
119. been interesting.</span><p></p>
120.  
121. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have searched
122. for copies of this poster and cannot find any other examples. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alas, it seems unique, leaving one other
123. question, the date of actual publication. The printing information in the
124. bottom right corner is chipped and reads</span></p>
125.  
126. <blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="Body" style="border: none; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", serif;"><i>“This list reprinted November 8, 19
127. (paper missing) by Milton Latz, Knife and Fork Inn, Atlantic and Pacific Aves.,
128. Atlantic City, N (paper missing) 25 Cents a Copy.</i></span></p></blockquote>
129.  
130. <p class="Body" style="border: none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Knife &
131. Fork Inn, in addition to having been a popular restaurant, had also been a
132. speak-easy during Prohibition. After being raided and its liquor supplies
133. confiscated, it was taken over in 1927 by Milton Latz, Mack Latz’s brother. Since
134. Latz ownership of the inn dates to 1927, this document would appear to be a Prohibition
135. era souvenir tribute to the “Good Old Days” printed in the late 1920’s or early
136. 1930’s.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">  </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In any case, it is still a window
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138. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMQ-i5_woN_K0lnRxsu_fKWFS-0XhyphenhyphenlmleEwlH6Lm7UnBgiQdCKpxmtQ7R8-Yfm658_2e-V9oFTb1CCKE3buUB7a9XdBrKqubnGiB1ekDshY3lxlDec5vA56MHR-wM3937GSGMil3J499l/s1600/LilEgyptFarheda.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMQ-i5_woN_K0lnRxsu_fKWFS-0XhyphenhyphenlmleEwlH6Lm7UnBgiQdCKpxmtQ7R8-Yfm658_2e-V9oFTb1CCKE3buUB7a9XdBrKqubnGiB1ekDshY3lxlDec5vA56MHR-wM3937GSGMil3J499l/s1600/LilEgyptFarheda.JPG" width="189" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Farheda Mazar Spyropoulos, danced as Fatima "the Seventh Daughter of the Seventh Daughter," or simply "Little Egypt" in the <i>Streets of Cairo</i> exhibit at the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893.  Farheda wriggled her way into American culture, introducing the shocking "hoochie-coochie," "shimmy dance," or "shiver dance."</span><br />
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140. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">An elderly gentleman in the 1970's who purportedly saw her 1893 performance, stated that "<i>She was something</i>."  "<i>She wasn't beautiful, but she was attractive and her costume was revealing. She was accompanied by high pitched reed instruments.  I remember she put her hands over her eyes with her elbows extended outwards, then she wiggled and wiggled.</i>" He went on to say that he saw her perform four times.  While there is no detailed record of the authenticity of her dance, there was a song spoofing her, entitled <i>She Never Saw the Streets of Cairo</i> (1893).  This was not entirely correct as Farheda was indeed born in Cairo, Egypt.</span><br />
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142. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">The male public could not get enough of Little Egypt's' rendition of the "<i>danse du ventre</i>", or "belly dance."  In 1896, New York's <i>Tammany Times</i> announced that "<i>Little Egypt will have a new dance she promises will be startling</i>" to be performed at the Olympia Music Hall burlesque.  The Olympia was a first class venue.  With seating for 3800, it was later to become the original venue of the Ziegfeld Follies. </span><br />
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144. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Memories of Farheda's performance were slow to fade.  Forty years later, an article in a 1933 <i>Time</i> magazine, observed that "<i>Yokels gaped and the nation's bustled churchwomen bawled righteous indignation when Little Egypt undulated her brown, pneumatic belly at Chicago in 1893</i>."  Alas, our memories play us false.  Things are never quite as wonderful as we like to imagine them.  If the existing photo of Farheda is any indicator, the only skin exposed was forearms and ankles.  The torso was hidden under a light blouse, and the legs by a skirt that would have done a Flamenco dancer proud.</span><br />
145. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioxtD8z_wsWj3F-FDTgqtNTsqbDsYivfBIKdL6G1JdWfD1YxIPylFfm-W0sVsq101T4okEq9vTuniDE9P0nJXruHr7_MvLNQMKA4E_q_gc9u3RO2m_8gVfItdjWbj3g6hWOfphezrmd1zS/s1600/ScribnersEgypt1903use.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioxtD8z_wsWj3F-FDTgqtNTsqbDsYivfBIKdL6G1JdWfD1YxIPylFfm-W0sVsq101T4okEq9vTuniDE9P0nJXruHr7_MvLNQMKA4E_q_gc9u3RO2m_8gVfItdjWbj3g6hWOfphezrmd1zS/s1600/ScribnersEgypt1903use.jpg" width="221" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span><br />
146. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEine7T-Z9jLfs_ztT7V2goIRmGb3oYTwfPSj1bkNdhT7w-G8lkd_r-nYJZyc_Ci-dENGO-yZJ8CGjwbfBqDP9uwwULoRkKvdUYSloIktdOYGiXGcSgwrxr8U9ziT2E3GFJe1lsuz5PBo0ch/s1600/ScribnersEgypt1903.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Hucksters and carnies knew a good thing when they saw it.  By 1903, performances by a "Little Egypt" could be found everywhere.  For the price one thin dime, or sometimes a quarter, rubes were able to ogle "hoochie-coochie" dancers using her stage name at many a county fair, traveling carnival, and "burly-q" in the U.S.  This was just the start of a long of line of dancers and strippers performing as "Little Egypt" well into the 1950's.</span><br />
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149. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtdMgBITKLWoBWL0Nojz_2hyphenhyphenEductSuy9V5abD5HXVY12ZGFOqxHgY3QGwekatyvHM39ptpY-x0pJ21tMu_D6nQjNz_XC5AQwZxzHYmqX2J_ICs20iqEg8ZV79SziiPPBdoUaZYboqvG6d/s1600/LilEgyptlure.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtdMgBITKLWoBWL0Nojz_2hyphenhyphenEductSuy9V5abD5HXVY12ZGFOqxHgY3QGwekatyvHM39ptpY-x0pJ21tMu_D6nQjNz_XC5AQwZxzHYmqX2J_ICs20iqEg8ZV79SziiPPBdoUaZYboqvG6d/s1600/LilEgyptlure.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
150. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">The "Little Egypt" moniker was also used in advertising.  <i>Little Egypt</i> and the <i>Shimmy</i> were found in a line of popular spinner and bacon rind fishing lures, and her image was used to sell cigarettes.</span><br />
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152. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">In 1901 there was a prize angus cow named "Little Egypt" and, in 1906, a registered Poland-China pig.  There were also at least three "Little Egypt" mining operations in the United States. </span><br />
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154. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">A comedy, <i>Little Egypt Malone,</i> was filmed in 1915.  The plot sounds as if it was a 1930's "Our Gang" script.  A group of boys buy a tent and signage used by a performer billing herself as "Little Egypt" and  then, predictably, put on a show.  Money rolls in, neighborhood women become outraged at the lewd performance, followed by men getting angry when they find out the performer is a boy in drag and, like all good slapsticks, things end with everyone having a good laugh. </span><br />
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156. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_zpGUTA6c1KcmZ2ZIl1ywoLXvqCBrnxdmaTtLHrXs6UTBLL840y0YFd7Ejj83O9lmcaaF3Wq0UWxrDAA_PiK0a02BToSGACc8oCwyH1tmYiZI4N2iqOCaDF9uq6hG8SGD0HewYUPd3OL/s1600/LilEgyptPresley.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_zpGUTA6c1KcmZ2ZIl1ywoLXvqCBrnxdmaTtLHrXs6UTBLL840y0YFd7Ejj83O9lmcaaF3Wq0UWxrDAA_PiK0a02BToSGACc8oCwyH1tmYiZI4N2iqOCaDF9uq6hG8SGD0HewYUPd3OL/s1600/LilEgyptPresley.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyFRr6KVi0jqduFE7l_Dvybb6zK6mVzEKXnel1gbI8gTD-sbzOkKMJIYXuoBrR4Jv6XNhY0LhDuHWGVZpv6tOG3I4a_UtRsN_QFWBYeMXJofqoogcYTcRLMng1JH-2KBv9RY5hZJ6bRwa3/s1600/LilEgypt1951b.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyFRr6KVi0jqduFE7l_Dvybb6zK6mVzEKXnel1gbI8gTD-sbzOkKMJIYXuoBrR4Jv6XNhY0LhDuHWGVZpv6tOG3I4a_UtRsN_QFWBYeMXJofqoogcYTcRLMng1JH-2KBv9RY5hZJ6bRwa3/s1600/LilEgypt1951b.JPG" width="101" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">This was followed later by the movie <i>Little Egypt</i> starring Rhonda Fleming in 1951, and the song "Little Egypt" performed by Elvis in <i>Roustabout</i> - almost 70 years after Mrs. Spyropoulos' landmark performance. </span><br />
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159. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh691-RIqKzPpQJ9YMnXlr7wlK2zfQdoLRAfs1nrm9Za0xQn-RMbdY9zz0Fhb88M-LOBaU17GIQELgdRVxRVI1vvlu8v5ak57BJi7VArYO1q4W2qs2HLtkY0Gqb1Ya-DZLao1-Wf0mFpnjS/s1600/LilEgyptBeer.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh691-RIqKzPpQJ9YMnXlr7wlK2zfQdoLRAfs1nrm9Za0xQn-RMbdY9zz0Fhb88M-LOBaU17GIQELgdRVxRVI1vvlu8v5ak57BJi7VArYO1q4W2qs2HLtkY0Gqb1Ya-DZLao1-Wf0mFpnjS/s1600/LilEgyptBeer.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>
160. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Today, there is a craft beer named Little Egypt. From the logo, I imagine the brewers were thinking of Rhonda Fleming rather than the original performer.  Farheda would make a poor pin-up by modern standards. (I have not been able to sample the beer here in the desert southwest but, if someone would like to ship a case from Illinois, I will heartily thank them and treat them to a cerveza and free Mexican dinner at <i>Andele</i>, if they ever pass this way.)</span><br />
161. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
162. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">What is remarkable, is to see the legacy of that performance in the "Gay Nineties" starting its second hundred years.</span><br />
163. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
164. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">When Farheda died on April 5, 1937, the widely used boiler-plate newspaper obituary read:</span><br />
165. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span>
166. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">"<b>First Little Egypt of 1893 Fair Dies</b> - Chicago - <i>Little Egypt, first exponent of the muscle dance which shocked patrons of the Worlds Columbian Exposition in 1893 and gained her sensational publicity, died today.  The wife of a Greek restaurant owner, she died in the house to which she came as a bride 24 years ago.  Her married name was Mrs. Farheda Spyropoulos."</i></span><br />
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168. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Like Farheda Spyropoulos, the original Little Egypt, there is a cocktail by that name that is largely forgotten.  Actually there are two, however the version I prefer comes from the German<b> <i>Lexicon der Getranke</i></b> (1913) by Schonfeld.</span><br />
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171. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-AxEhLOr_fLnY33zbLfUEnTLklOGXkC0PRu0-l29NnOHNhUBAkf-1moWDp-qWnn_lx0haTEIfCsJzQuL32acexiwSX2UbBWuSEYaztTx9WWdMJRymc-5N6kK2CbU4DnL3lKH3Yq3q24S0/s1600/LilEgyptdnk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-AxEhLOr_fLnY33zbLfUEnTLklOGXkC0PRu0-l29NnOHNhUBAkf-1moWDp-qWnn_lx0haTEIfCsJzQuL32acexiwSX2UbBWuSEYaztTx9WWdMJRymc-5N6kK2CbU4DnL3lKH3Yq3q24S0/s1600/LilEgyptdnk.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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178. While I will offer up a few drinks at the
179. end, with the holidays upon us and many looking to find just the
180. "right" gift for spouses, family members, significant others and
181. friends, I thought I would share a few gift memories.</div>
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185. <span lang="EN-GB">Black Friday and Cyber Monday have passed
186. and, in fits of conspicuous consumption, the American public has spent money it
187. does not have, for gifts. These gifts will likely be forgotten in the next year
188. or two, perhaps sooner.  For those giving
189. gift cards or cash, the gesture so appreciated when received, will almost
190. certainly forgotten as soon converted into goods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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194. <span lang="EN-GB">Looking back at over 60 Christmases it is
195. amazing how few gifts are easily remembered, still fewer that call forth
196. memories, and costliness is not a factor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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200. <span lang="EN-GB">I have received the requisite numbers of
201. ties, robes, slippers, and sweaters, though I remember none specifically.  Predictably, there have been cash and gift
202. cards though I cannot remember exactly what was purchased with them.  Wait! 
203. As I write, I  recall that one
204. Christmas, the monetary gift from my parents went to buy a new steering wheel
205. for the jeep I wrote of in an earlier blog. 
206. I really wanted that steering wheel as the old one was badly cracked and
207. worn.  Of the gifts I do recall, almost
208. all are from my childhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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213. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9LutVTdmI53j68mEAIJKSRldUqKZo6rCU0R3NnNZZEze0O9kF54hnBpJNS954AYG7K_f1CvbethkieTFvlsi4lBVcs-Tc41Z7qJegpZNqUXWTbd43erDy5Su0nd80LM4Wyme53sk2G9dd/s1600/15ArmyTrucks.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9LutVTdmI53j68mEAIJKSRldUqKZo6rCU0R3NnNZZEze0O9kF54hnBpJNS954AYG7K_f1CvbethkieTFvlsi4lBVcs-Tc41Z7qJegpZNqUXWTbd43erDy5Su0nd80LM4Wyme53sk2G9dd/s1600/15ArmyTrucks.JPG" width="156" /></a></td></tr>
214. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">$9.95 in 1958, $900 today<br /></td></tr>
215. </tbody></table>
216. <span lang="EN-GB">The first, best, and probably longest
217. played with, was a trio (that's right, not just one, but three!) Structo Army
218. trucks. Typical of the 1950's, they were heavy, olive drab painted steel.  Sporting a star on the roof, one had a battery-operated
219. searchlight, the other a missile launcher. 
220. I played with them years after the searchlight lens, the missile
221. launcher broken, and the transport cover gone AWOL.  In fact, they were still in my old G.I.
222. footlocker/toy box that Dad
223. disposed of when I was away in college. 
224. I can purchase the set pictured, and relive my childhood, for a mere
225. $900.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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229. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMIjxFqhBg5m77-MzhTrExRlsCmO_9U71lwX34Drsp4gyLevfibVBos_K8PCUTfTJOEu1FmZjGSceJRAWDSgwPqCdjcwBfm1T9wIvZmPv_IbABu5esaJSrthEPlQD-ZM7KUtPRL61s1Nl/s1600/15DaisyPump.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOMIjxFqhBg5m77-MzhTrExRlsCmO_9U71lwX34Drsp4gyLevfibVBos_K8PCUTfTJOEu1FmZjGSceJRAWDSgwPqCdjcwBfm1T9wIvZmPv_IbABu5esaJSrthEPlQD-ZM7KUtPRL61s1Nl/s1600/15DaisyPump.JPG" width="154" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">The spiritual low in Christmas gifts
230. received had to be about Christmas of 1959 or 1960.  This was rock bottom disappointing.  Much more so than my getting a Daisy pump BB
231. gun when my friends all had lever actions. 
232. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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234. <br /></div>
235. <div class="MsoNormal">
236. <span lang="EN-GB">Picture a time when the ultimate Christmas
237. reference for toys was the Sears & Roebuck catalog, Westerns reigned
238. supreme in the movies and on television, and children actually went out of
239. doors to play Cowboys and Indians.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
240. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
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242. <br /></div>
243. <div class="MsoNormal">
244. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUmSg7T-8Kflrfy8pY56NKFSCGer_PEeFdodkfYqtse2mxGarhGq2xioFIV1I7VAB-fLgsOxKkPXJCC4vCigr0qEcvUXb-NL3QA_7QibHSD_AQKcVLcXsWP9OTLBzRkaOFa01H8mnNmpQ/s1600/15EskimoVillage3.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUmSg7T-8Kflrfy8pY56NKFSCGer_PEeFdodkfYqtse2mxGarhGq2xioFIV1I7VAB-fLgsOxKkPXJCC4vCigr0qEcvUXb-NL3QA_7QibHSD_AQKcVLcXsWP9OTLBzRkaOFa01H8mnNmpQ/s1600/15EskimoVillage3.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiommA5TGovTHb8hMRJnJXs0iBOpSr9DB7d-OvZBzovDQRUVSwCQ91OqILybnsxUxdnw27znw2dIxDkAkfY7mM2UYAjr-IsLedVhQSOYNhdUUU9PR0vX9_U3-tADooXtwPoQU4Z8p9nA6wB/s1600/15FtApache2.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiommA5TGovTHb8hMRJnJXs0iBOpSr9DB7d-OvZBzovDQRUVSwCQ91OqILybnsxUxdnw27znw2dIxDkAkfY7mM2UYAjr-IsLedVhQSOYNhdUUU9PR0vX9_U3-tADooXtwPoQU4Z8p9nA6wB/s1600/15FtApache2.JPG" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">I wanted a <i>Fort Apache</i> by Marx - an opus in
245. brightly colored injection molded plastic. A 
246. timbered cavalry fort with soldiers, cowboys, Indians, horses...I can
247. still see that catalog page today.  Come
248. Christmas morn, gifts under the tree, the smell of cocoa, what was in
249. store---toy soldiers, model planes, Fort Apache?  No. It was <i>Eskimo Village</i>, a predecessor of
250. the <i>Arctic Explorer</i> play set pictured above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
251. <div class="MsoNormal">
252. <br /></div>
253. <div class="MsoNormal">
254. <span lang="EN-GB">At that time, I was all about shoot ‘em up military
255. and cowboy stuff.  An Eskimo
256. Village?   Dad must have lost his mind or waited until
257. there was nothing left to buy, or grabbed the first toy that came to hand.  He was in the army.  Why in God’s green earth would he pick Eskimo
258. Village?  The box held igloos, sleds,
259. dogs, walrus, polar bear, Inuits etc. 
260. All foreign to my interests and world view - and such a
261. disappointment.  It snowed that Christmas
262. and I had a go at playing desultorily with the Village outside.  Later, on occasion, playing with my electric
263. train, I would drag out the Eskimo Village and its minions.  Somehow, the Eskimo Village just did not feel
264. right alongside my Lionel, my green Army men and those beloved Army trucks. The
265. icons of the frozen North were soon relegated to the bottom of that old footlocker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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267. <br /></div>
268. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
269. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb6LF9EyMiTvcVCdjbBLLdwNLErJk9v41cOMN0I3lqqQSa1kJULP53Y7Mc9APamaAzQ_9gDdW2MpCeBhM73u99JmsS0V9ZyJKCJfqG4iwP4Cxa9YJ-S0oLJHEYX7p6KEM1ZE0zLMM2VjdK/s1600/15Mossberg.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb6LF9EyMiTvcVCdjbBLLdwNLErJk9v41cOMN0I3lqqQSa1kJULP53Y7Mc9APamaAzQ_9gDdW2MpCeBhM73u99JmsS0V9ZyJKCJfqG4iwP4Cxa9YJ-S0oLJHEYX7p6KEM1ZE0zLMM2VjdK/s1600/15Mossberg.JPG" /></a></div>
270. <div class="MsoNormal">
271. <span lang="EN-GB">The last memorable gift was the Christmas of 1965
272. in Camp Drum, New York.  I had moved on
273. to fishing, spending time in the woods, and wanting to hunt.  My parents gave me a shotgun. Now this was
274. not an extravagant gift.  Not a
275. Winchester, or even a Remington, it was a well-used Mossberg 12 gauge bolt-action
276. shotgun with an adjustable choke.  It was
277. about as close to the "bottom of the line" as you can get without
278. being indecent in quality.  Never mind
279. that.  I took a good number of rabbits
280. with it and enjoyed it immensely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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282. <br /></div>
283. <div class="MsoNormal">
284. <span lang="EN-GB">As parents, my wife and I have managed to
285. be spectacular failures in gift giving. We have heard more than once from our
286. children that they never got what they wanted. Oh well.  As they say, "Life sucks, then you
287. die."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
288. <div class="MsoNormal">
289. <br /></div>
290. <div class="MsoNormal">
291. <span lang="EN-GB">As we mature (though many never do) gift
292. giving and receiving becomes secondary to spending time with loved ones or, in
293. my case, seeking a quiet corner away from loved ones.  My wife
294. and I seldom give each other gifts anymore, preferring to get what we want,
295. when we want it.  Perhaps that is best
296. since there is never disappointment. 
297. Like all things in life, this also has a downside; you also lose the
298. chance to cultivate those memories of gifts - good, bad, or indifferent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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302. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJYlNmAphTTR3tjqY2pYmdpSVVRKKNsjS3d1po2Je45N7DQXL25_eB9sfCT_tBqPmnlXWwX0afl6I1p0n6LQ938lKC-lb4pArMibaJF4hYKyF-BPhorQdmyxUQXtbfGHZAT8-OmYLiHjO/s1600/15PeterPauper.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJYlNmAphTTR3tjqY2pYmdpSVVRKKNsjS3d1po2Je45N7DQXL25_eB9sfCT_tBqPmnlXWwX0afl6I1p0n6LQ938lKC-lb4pArMibaJF4hYKyF-BPhorQdmyxUQXtbfGHZAT8-OmYLiHjO/s1600/15PeterPauper.JPG" width="119" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">Today’s drinks are from <i><b>Holiday Drink
303. Book,</b></i> by the Peter Pauper Press, 1951. 
304. This book can be found, in its original box, for under $10 today.  It would make a cute stocking-stuffer for
305. someone enjoying 1950's tchotchke's and some simple drinks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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307. <br /></div>
308. <div class="MsoNormal">
309. <span lang="EN-GB">Like those Army trucks, the <i>Falernum Cocktail</i> is worth trotting out repeatedly.</span></div>
310. <div class="MsoNormal">
311. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
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313. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglGyBPspOV6HRaXWe9nm0qPzFk2LJoctwvDj2EyQO3t5HWz_9EXD6IA9wWBULuexQ1H90UdmKkMniftUnUYZqG_ddULSrrcT03vILmucu7I2kAcBD2xeYTmQLS-vtko1MEAE4eGTGOsjfv/s1600/15FalernumCtl.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglGyBPspOV6HRaXWe9nm0qPzFk2LJoctwvDj2EyQO3t5HWz_9EXD6IA9wWBULuexQ1H90UdmKkMniftUnUYZqG_ddULSrrcT03vILmucu7I2kAcBD2xeYTmQLS-vtko1MEAE4eGTGOsjfv/s1600/15FalernumCtl.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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315. <br /></div>
316. <div class="MsoNormal">
317. <span lang="EN-GB">This basic <i>Hot Buttered Rum </i>recipe, just as that "plain Jane" old
318. Mossberg, does its job. A no frills, no fuss, way to warm up on a cold winter
319. day or night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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322. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
323. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZE8mTn-A2lZtsuYK6VmUOY9Z_aDqrUT0uXvSpqCL8xZockD35zJcgOZBCBpCkNQbw3H-NzjkGA45Kj1p75QchlTym61wsRUtqf5dyBcVCnYjINgfHXMGAJQmzBAn5nCauAcr6sqv8N41A/s1600/15HotButRum.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZE8mTn-A2lZtsuYK6VmUOY9Z_aDqrUT0uXvSpqCL8xZockD35zJcgOZBCBpCkNQbw3H-NzjkGA45Kj1p75QchlTym61wsRUtqf5dyBcVCnYjINgfHXMGAJQmzBAn5nCauAcr6sqv8N41A/s1600/15HotButRum.JPG" width="232" /></a></div>
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325. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
326. <div class="MsoNormal">
327. <br /></div>
328. <div class="MsoNormal">
329. <span lang="EN-GB">This last drink, a picker upper for that
330. morning after, has to be the "Eskimo Village" of cocktails.  While I would gladly take eggnog or almost
331. any other drink utilizing raw egg, the <i>Nose
332. Dive Cocktail</i> would be far from my thoughts - and yes, I made one and
333. quaffed it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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337. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
338. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3xGBXoorUYsx1aK9v-mbyexuaBjZ-sODPVuwFqm0yXeywXm-bfC61BBJmmBtptQlc0rf49fn1Y8Vi0zsdMpR4_gcjLOrvq4VYwqUwhVpAD-ckKMXcfgj24JtcQNuxfvMbBDjpul3q3p_o/s1600/15Nosedive.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3xGBXoorUYsx1aK9v-mbyexuaBjZ-sODPVuwFqm0yXeywXm-bfC61BBJmmBtptQlc0rf49fn1Y8Vi0zsdMpR4_gcjLOrvq4VYwqUwhVpAD-ckKMXcfgj24JtcQNuxfvMbBDjpul3q3p_o/s1600/15Nosedive.JPG" width="159" /></a></div>
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340. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
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342. Today’s offering is a few mixed drinks
343. named for women.   If you find one to your liking, pass on the
344. story as well as the drink.</div>
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346. <br /></div>
347. <div class="MsoNormal">
348. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFGvOjn_K9Ua_GaQK-p_QGUskEtj7D5jJfc6WoiEcRKj8fM3iMAuWOg-8YCsyQx0R6PoIG9BazNN4i6nuzxThSQDeI4k1HYOqyukhISuLOzRUhkVIQDXrZ9JlSzTf4MNeZkETHITTEaPfM/s1600/B14STaylor.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFGvOjn_K9Ua_GaQK-p_QGUskEtj7D5jJfc6WoiEcRKj8fM3iMAuWOg-8YCsyQx0R6PoIG9BazNN4i6nuzxThSQDeI4k1HYOqyukhISuLOzRUhkVIQDXrZ9JlSzTf4MNeZkETHITTEaPfM/s1600/B14STaylor.JPG" width="110" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">The first is named in honor of an
349. African-American woman of note, Susie King Taylor.  Employed as a laundress, nurse, and educator,
350. Susie Taylor wrote a book <i><b>Reminiscences of
351. My Life with the 33rd United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers</b></i>.  An easy read of about 80 pages (available
352. free online) it starts with a brief history of her family, describes her
353. experiences traveling with her husbands unit during its campaigns, then
354. finishes with a brief description of her life in the post-war years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
355. <div class="MsoNormal">
356. <br /></div>
357. <div class="MsoNormal">
358. <span lang="EN-GB">No mere camp follower, Mrs. Taylor was
359. hired by the regiment as a laundress, though she says she seldom had time to
360. perform that task. There  was a myriad of
361. more pressing needs that kept her busy such as nursing the sick and wounded,
362. helping to clean muskets, packing knapsacks and cartridge boxes, searching for
363. food, and teaching reading and writing to those soldiers interested.  She saw the war from Charleston to
364. Jacksonville and her slim book is a good read for as it gives a uniquely female
365. perspective of life in the "colored troops."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
366. <div class="MsoNormal">
367. <br /></div>
368. <div class="MsoNormal">
369. <span lang="EN-GB">In a late chapter, Taylor writes a very
370. thoughtful essay on issues of race and treatment of veterans in general.  One sentence, appropriate to our proximity to
371. Veterans Day, serves to illustrate how times really do not change:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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373. <br /></div>
374. <blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>“I look around now and see the comforts
375. that our younger generation enjoy, and think of the blood that was shed to make
376. these comforts possible for them, and see how little some of them appreciate
377. the old soldiers. My heart burns.”</i></span></div></blockquote>
378. <div class="MsoNormal">
379. <br /></div>
380. <div class="MsoNormal">
381. <span lang="EN-GB">The Susie Taylor comes from Straub's <b><i>Manual
382. of Mixed Drinks</i></b>, 1913.  A simple,
383. pleasant cooler, it is a Cuba Libre with ginger ale substituted for Coke.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
384. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span>
385. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
386. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEide51eI_lfBgoTKcfhr8qwUHIXDK-M3DAq_E0TwZw3P4Lv3HvEbKoD7xgyqAxfSBbqOC2cgbbp_1B8I53Co5VCkG0wLmvJDBbeqc3uYDWy6R8UdlcS5ZU7LMs5R1QF9phrIG2zxMnb2mCL/s1600/B14STaylorDnk.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEide51eI_lfBgoTKcfhr8qwUHIXDK-M3DAq_E0TwZw3P4Lv3HvEbKoD7xgyqAxfSBbqOC2cgbbp_1B8I53Co5VCkG0wLmvJDBbeqc3uYDWy6R8UdlcS5ZU7LMs5R1QF9phrIG2zxMnb2mCL/s1600/B14STaylorDnk.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
387. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
388. <div class="MsoNormal">
389. <br /></div>
390. <div class="MsoNormal">
391. <span lang="EN-GB">Next, we have Elsie Ferguson, a blue-eyed
392. blond star of stage and screen in the early 20th century. Starting as a chorus
393. girl  in 1900, she made her last
394. performance on Broadway in 1943. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
395. <div class="MsoNormal">
396. <br /></div>
397. <div class="MsoNormal">
398. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIhJK_QX8fQodbASKEcGQ72atGOCYMXsGAMSc4lHQPd3g4QGm9m2NYvmGSNn4D8pfz3Sj4mYdrZS5FCzTPKEAEC4hZ5tANECZlnfHYORDQ7dNcBLHZXGAyLHiX1zMewA_7Kw6Sm-nz34yF/s1600/B14EFerguson.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIhJK_QX8fQodbASKEcGQ72atGOCYMXsGAMSc4lHQPd3g4QGm9m2NYvmGSNn4D8pfz3Sj4mYdrZS5FCzTPKEAEC4hZ5tANECZlnfHYORDQ7dNcBLHZXGAyLHiX1zMewA_7Kw6Sm-nz34yF/s1600/B14EFerguson.JPG" width="152" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">In 1919, the women's magazine, <i>Milady Beautiful</i>, described her as
399. "the greatest mistress of poise, grade and artistry."  She was a very private, and self-effacing
400. person active in charity work and an "ardent" suffragette.  During WWI, Elsie Ferguson participated in
401. Liberty Loan drives, the Red Cross and United War work.  Elsie was considered a difficult person, in
402. part, for her dislike of interviews and parties.  A 1918 article in <i>Photoplay</i> described her as "rather cold, indifferent, almost
403. unhappy, and sometimes rather unreal" when off-stage. She was not without
404. humor.  When told a reporter wanted to do
405. a story on how she spent her money, she stated, "I spend it with
406. pleasure."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
407. <div class="MsoNormal">
408. <br /></div>
409. <div class="MsoNormal">
410. <span lang="EN-GB">Today, only one of her silent movies <i>Witness for the Defense</i>, 1919, and one
411. of her talkies <i>Scarlet Pages</i>, 1930,
412. are known to exist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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414. <br /></div>
415. <div class="MsoNormal">
416. <span lang="EN-GB">The <i>Elsie
417. Ferguson Fizz</i> is also from Straub's.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
418. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
419. <div class="MsoNormal">
420. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
421. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4MyGguSKz_9UQW4HwGvE9Zol4Gzs3Z2VuE8nIp_4Q8-jtE2uID-mr7XSW4PiGMLg-blnphRWSf9Ac4_qT266Qkv4jemKgMR7iUE-eLSelfcx-VJRR_1clAsFTGLs8QZk47v8tOz3ClIG/s1600/B14EFergusonDK.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4MyGguSKz_9UQW4HwGvE9Zol4Gzs3Z2VuE8nIp_4Q8-jtE2uID-mr7XSW4PiGMLg-blnphRWSf9Ac4_qT266Qkv4jemKgMR7iUE-eLSelfcx-VJRR_1clAsFTGLs8QZk47v8tOz3ClIG/s1600/B14EFergusonDK.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
422. <br /></div>
423. <div class="MsoNormal">
424. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoO3kRP7lZ789bpNCnAmViTytaPASglNzN8jssAYCKDqnwPk74ccL0LgvikFoFuOhvuNRnVkheBRngPrDy09XWpyIJvS5l8GEa0Ixm9EUrN3XaI7hOUqxe0_xEL-X3mfAGjka_Yhf9FRnp/s1600/B14PSnow2.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoO3kRP7lZ789bpNCnAmViTytaPASglNzN8jssAYCKDqnwPk74ccL0LgvikFoFuOhvuNRnVkheBRngPrDy09XWpyIJvS5l8GEa0Ixm9EUrN3XaI7hOUqxe0_xEL-X3mfAGjka_Yhf9FRnp/s1600/B14PSnow2.JPG" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">Finally, we have Phoebe Snow. Again we
425. return to 1900.  Phoebe was a model
426. Floradora girl, a shining example of feminine pulchritude and decorum, the
427. "Girl in White,” and like most shining examples - imaginary.  Phoebe, a product of the mind of one W. P.
428. Colton, advertising manager for the Lackawanna Railroad, was as real as Flo,
429. the enthusiastic Progressive Insurance spokesperson. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
430. <div class="MsoNormal">
431. <br /></div>
432. <div class="MsoNormal">
433. <span lang="EN-GB">Phoebe Snow was simply a name made up to
434. fit the first of a series of advertising jingles:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
435. <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
436. <i><span lang="EN-GB">Phoebe Snow about to go<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
437. <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
438. <i><span lang="EN-GB">Upon a trip to Buffalo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
439. <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
440. <i><span lang="EN-GB">"My gown keeps white<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
441. <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
442. <i><span lang="EN-GB">Both day and night<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
443. <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
444. <i><span lang="EN-GB">Upon the Road of Anthracite"<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
445. <div class="MsoNormal">
446. <br /></div>
447. <div class="MsoNormal">
448. <span lang="EN-GB">Phoebe, dressed in white like Flo <i>a la</i>
449. 1900, was the darling of the Lackawanna Railroad.  She was able to travel in white on the
450. Lackawanna without fear of her clothes being soiled by soot because the
451. Lackawanna locomotives burned more expensive anthracite coal, hence the moniker
452. of  "The Road of
453. Anthracite."  For those of you too
454. young to remember coal fired furnaces and stoves, coal comes in three flavors -
455. dirty (anthracite), dirtier (bituminous/sub-bituminous), and dirtiest
456. (lignite), and was priced accordingly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
457. <div class="MsoNormal">
458. <br /></div>
459. <div class="MsoNormal">
460. <span lang="EN-GB">In in her day, Phoebe Snow, graced
461. magazines, billboards, newspapers and streetcars. The ad copy featured rhymes
462. extolling the virtues of the Lackawanna Railroad - courtesy, safety, comfort,
463. and pleasure. While the rhymes seem juvenile today, in 1904 they were described
464. as "tripping, lilting rhymes, associated with a form feminine equally
465. dainty."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
466. <div class="MsoNormal">
467. <br /></div>
468. <div class="MsoNormal">
469. <span lang="EN-GB">Phoebe fell on hard times about 1914, being
470. eventually dropped by the railroad only to return briefly hawking cosmetics and
471. underwear.  In the 1940's the Lackawanna
472. gave her a facelift, and brought her back for another twenty years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
473. <div class="MsoNormal">
474. <br /></div>
475. <div class="MsoNormal">
476. <span lang="EN-GB">The <i>Phoebe
477. Snow Cocktail</i> is from <i><b>The How and
478. When</b></i> by Marco, 1940.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
479. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span>
480. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
481. </div>
482. <br />
483. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
484. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02UYisubTkMO0enlPPEwwhQCZY7dVN0WYs2GHRawWCtKyme4A1v7vVBuNwNIKvfVGJlSu4Dxa-iLZqzAxCgU11D0k4ygBHIECwhKEzjFmK8-F9fq4S3GEL-gN8l8vw4qkbtkBfNwkvKVy/s1600/B14PSnowDnk.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02UYisubTkMO0enlPPEwwhQCZY7dVN0WYs2GHRawWCtKyme4A1v7vVBuNwNIKvfVGJlSu4Dxa-iLZqzAxCgU11D0k4ygBHIECwhKEzjFmK8-F9fq4S3GEL-gN8l8vw4qkbtkBfNwkvKVy/s1600/B14PSnowDnk.JPG" width="280" /></a></div>
485. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
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487. <br /></div>
488. <br />
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490. <br /></div>
491. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://offthewaterwagon.blogspot.com/feeds/4340704211480948777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=688387386073661324&amp;postID=4340704211480948777&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/688387386073661324/posts/default/4340704211480948777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/688387386073661324/posts/default/4340704211480948777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://offthewaterwagon.blogspot.com/2014/11/whats-in-name-cherchez-la-femme.html' title='What&#39;s In A Name - Cherchez la femme!'/><author><name>Carlos Madera</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15186590484206011202</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFGvOjn_K9Ua_GaQK-p_QGUskEtj7D5jJfc6WoiEcRKj8fM3iMAuWOg-8YCsyQx0R6PoIG9BazNN4i6nuzxThSQDeI4k1HYOqyukhISuLOzRUhkVIQDXrZ9JlSzTf4MNeZkETHITTEaPfM/s72-c/B14STaylor.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688387386073661324.post-3153923984002706250</id><published>2014-11-05T09:18:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2021-03-28T17:11:04.745-06:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Book of Toasts"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="gin"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="hot gin"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hot toddy"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="piss-quick"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="port"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="rum"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="soap-suds"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="toast"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="water"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="whiskey"/><title type='text'>Some Like It Hot (Toddy)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
492. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHJk-tLbIx2hK8LtNQ6G8GgMySbGEGUlFZNFwOtmcI2drEQdW8J2XtZtCbT1CSlIzQHGBt6b0_oafEfaLRbnqLBgNNvLOnk2HhkhcH18xnfi8UDy0eTrdyKUitUpaE8NeF1IuH2VuqEYT9/s1600/MMonroe.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHJk-tLbIx2hK8LtNQ6G8GgMySbGEGUlFZNFwOtmcI2drEQdW8J2XtZtCbT1CSlIzQHGBt6b0_oafEfaLRbnqLBgNNvLOnk2HhkhcH18xnfi8UDy0eTrdyKUitUpaE8NeF1IuH2VuqEYT9/s1600/MMonroe.jpg" width="107" /></a></div>
493. <div class="MsoNormal">
494. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij0F2TgPgZVy7qfGYYvYt_f0f1uBhNVbnqeYylWyllR73dEFWEz4zsHVIgd6yzTSTzv6wNM6_Bam7312QbNk3-zH5GiHZ3yOHGpGflPqotIFf3MC2U7qh-NhSCnTy2DMZ6IVfEkdxlzrQK/s1600/ThelmaTodd.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij0F2TgPgZVy7qfGYYvYt_f0f1uBhNVbnqeYylWyllR73dEFWEz4zsHVIgd6yzTSTzv6wNM6_Bam7312QbNk3-zH5GiHZ3yOHGpGflPqotIFf3MC2U7qh-NhSCnTy2DMZ6IVfEkdxlzrQK/s1600/ThelmaTodd.jpg" width="105" /></a>Let me start by disabusing you of any
495. thought that this blog post will have anything to do with a great Marilyn
496. Monroe movie, or that sexy "ice cream blonde" of yesteryear - Thelma Todd aka "Hot Toddy." Rather, since the weather is turning
497. chilly, we are going to talk about a couple of traditional hot drinks. Those pics are a great hook though, aren't they?</div>
498. <div class="MsoNormal">
499. <br /></div>
500. <div class="MsoNormal">
501. <span lang="EN-GB">The first, and one of my favorites is <i>Hot Gin</i>, a drink with a considerable history
502. dating to the 1700's (by 1825 "<i>piss-quick</i>"
503. was established in English slang for gin and water). Medically, hot gin was was prescribed for dozens of ailments. Considered a stimulant during the
504. day, a drink to "promote repose" in the evening, and a treatment for
505. cholera.  Into the 1890's, a hot gin was
506. considered appropriate for female "pelvic complaints" such as
507. dysmenorrhea - used to such a degree that the medical journal <i>Lancet</i> expressed concern that hot gin
508. was contributing to alcoholism amongst women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
509. <div class="MsoNormal">
510. <br /></div>
511. <div class="MsoNormal">
512. <span lang="EN-GB">Hot gin is also featured in English
513. literature, making several appearances in works by authors as prominent as
514. Charles Dickens.  In <b><i>Oliver Twist</i></b>, Fagin
515. gives Oliver a hot gin after his  first
516. meal with the artful Dodger, and the gang, to put him to sleep.  Later, Mr. Bumble, on seeing a newspaper item
517. regarding Oliver, dashes off "...actually in his excitement" leaving
518. his evening "glass of hot gin and water untasted."  Criminal waste!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
519. <div class="MsoNormal">
520. <br /></div>
521. <div class="MsoNormal">
522. <span lang="EN-GB">Traditional recipes for <i>Hot Gin</i> vary only slightly and I enjoy
523. them all.  If you have a favorite gin,
524. use it.  If not, use whatever is handy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
525. <div class="MsoNormal">
526. <br /></div>
527. <div class="MsoNormal">
528. <span lang="EN-GB">The earliest recipe employs water, hot or
529. cold - <i>"Hot acts the quickest"</i> per an early 1800’s writer, in a 2:1
530. ratio.  This was nicknamed “soap-suds”
531. or, as previously mentioned, “piss-quick.” 
532. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
533. <div class="MsoNormal">
534. <br /></div>
535. <div class="MsoNormal">
536. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsIejiTwTtckBuz6-TVxxVjFpxSaIUiwP94XuN1cxycMtssQdVXM7bQE2ca5zPv_OjvC4aNR_82K_4QBUmUWemUADhxvqxlBYxOy1hYs_bUyEH5TYLDF_dkO_QOuAixIsJ3G2kIovpEs36/s1600/HotGin.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsIejiTwTtckBuz6-TVxxVjFpxSaIUiwP94XuN1cxycMtssQdVXM7bQE2ca5zPv_OjvC4aNR_82K_4QBUmUWemUADhxvqxlBYxOy1hYs_bUyEH5TYLDF_dkO_QOuAixIsJ3G2kIovpEs36/s1600/HotGin.JPG" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">A more genteel and tasty drink is the <i>Hot Gin Sling</i>.  Put one spoon of sugar in a hot drink glass,
537. or cup, fill half way (about 4 ounces) with hot water, add a jigger of gin,
538. stir, add a piece of bruised lemon peel and dust with nutmeg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
539. <div class="MsoNormal">
540. <br /></div>
541. <div class="MsoNormal">
542. <span lang="EN-GB">Toss in a couple of cloves and a bit of
543. allspice, and you now have a <i>Hot Spiced
544. Gin</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
545. <div class="MsoNormal">
546. <br /></div>
547. <div class="MsoNormal">
548. <span lang="EN-GB">To make a <i>Hot Gin Punch</i> (my preferred variant) add the juice of 1/4 lemon,
549. and a thin slice of lemon to the basic <i>Hot
550. Gin Sling</i> recipe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
551. <div class="MsoNormal">
552. <br /></div>
553. <div class="MsoNormal">
554. <span lang="EN-GB">The gin drinks above are essentially a gin
555. "toddy." Today a toddy, or "tottie", is nothing more than
556. spirits mixed with hot water, sugar, and spices or flavoring to taste. Spirits,
557. water (hot or cold), and sugar were the basic toddy of yore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
558. <div class="MsoNormal">
559. <br /></div>
560. <div class="MsoNormal">
561. <span lang="EN-GB">We primarily think of a toddy as using
562. whiskey - bourbon, rye, scotch, or Canadian, will do.  Traditionally, after a hospitable dinner, a
563. host would bring a kettle of hot water to the table, along with assorted
564. spirits such as whiskey, brandy, rum, and port, allowing the guests to mix "toddies"
565. to their taste.  Tumblers and wine
566. glasses were the glassware of choice In the home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
567. <div class="MsoNormal">
568. <br /></div>
569. <div class="MsoNormal">
570. <span lang="EN-GB">Like hot gin, the hot toddy was considered
571. to be of medicinal value.  It was
572. recommended for the treatment of colds (including those of children), gout, and
573. heat stroke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
574. <div class="MsoNormal">
575. <br /></div>
576. <div class="MsoNormal">
577. <span lang="EN-GB">A stanza from a "dramatic" poem
578. penned by Irish dramatist John O'Keefe in 1790 seems more a limerick today - <i>"cannon loud 'gainst cannon ranting; At
579. his gun, poor Jack see panting; As to lip he lifts the Toddy; Off flies head
580. and down drops body."</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
581. <div class="MsoNormal">
582. <br /></div>
583. <div class="MsoNormal">
584. <span lang="EN-GB">Widely appreciated, the toddy was enjoyed
585. by notables as Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson
586. Davis, and Mark Twain.  A drink that wears
587. its years well, continues to be popular today, and is perfect for that quiet
588. evening at home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
589. <div class="MsoNormal">
590. <br /></div>
591. <div style="border: 3pt solid windowtext; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;">
592. <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 3.0pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;">
593. <b><span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 4.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in;">Black
594. Box Warning</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> - In the 1790's for those preaching
595. temperance, just as marijuana was regarded the gateway drug by do-goods of my
596. generation, the toddy was regarded a the gateway drink to alcoholism in
597. theirs.  The evening toddy was said to
598. lead to <i>"drams in the morning, and
599. afterward (drinkers) have paid their lives as the price of their folly."</i>
600. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
601. </div>
602. <div class="MsoNormal">
603. <br /></div>
604. <div class="MsoNormal">
605. <span lang="EN-GB">Having been warned, tempt fate and try a toddy this
606. evening by substituting your favorite spirit, including flavored ones, for the
607. gin in the recipes above and changing the name accordingly.  The <i>Hot
608. Gin Punch</i> becomes a <i>Hot Rum Punch</i>
609. or <i>Hot Whiskey Punch</i>. Too strong?
610. Titrate the water to your taste. Too sweet, or not sweet enough---adjust your
611. sugar.  If you like cinnamon sticks or
612. vanilla beans, use them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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614. <br /></div>
615. <br />
616. <div class="MsoNormal">
617. <span lang="EN-GB">The <i>Hot Gin</i> and the <i>Toddy</i> are "old as the
618. hills" and some of the easiest to personalize.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
619. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
620. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3zBSKcuvz-RLzPQSeTclsZpCfnzyFdfUDbz-JRvYXrMV_7CPpm8UPyD3Cl7G_zGllyPaxmZDPlwjVtWE6_TtOfmc9pBWiElZ-oHfRjYAhz2gRdW0T-4Srjg5Q63GRZqcjh3Qt4i0NTMk/s1600/ToastLongAgo.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3zBSKcuvz-RLzPQSeTclsZpCfnzyFdfUDbz-JRvYXrMV_7CPpm8UPyD3Cl7G_zGllyPaxmZDPlwjVtWE6_TtOfmc9pBWiElZ-oHfRjYAhz2gRdW0T-4Srjg5Q63GRZqcjh3Qt4i0NTMk/s1600/ToastLongAgo.jpg" width="243" /></a></td></tr>
621. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Book of Toasts</b></i>, Autrim, 1902</td></tr>
622. </tbody></table>
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624. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
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626. With Halloween creeping upon us and with
627. ghoulish movies and TV shows coming to the fore, I thought I would start with
628. some real-life stories and finish with aptly named drinks.</div>
629. <div class="MsoNormal">
630. <br /></div>
631. <div class="MsoNormal">
632. <span lang="EN-GB">Looking at the not so horrifying “horror”
633. stories from my life, there were several candidates, and all appear wanting for
634. various reasons.  I imagine that many of
635. you, upon reflection, could do as well or better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
636. <div class="MsoNormal">
637. <br /></div>
638. <div class="MsoNormal">
639. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2zFomAGGHy3drjaSApOBXUjQ_-r4d3VZ42zFprDCPprYWTuiqY81tzscNEqrULA350AyErDya2Vdt8sP3gg09cyukczexARCrmEXDExGz9lrWm1Be5u0J_kLuLC62pRw_hX-Vc5cSGeM/s1600/GasMask.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2zFomAGGHy3drjaSApOBXUjQ_-r4d3VZ42zFprDCPprYWTuiqY81tzscNEqrULA350AyErDya2Vdt8sP3gg09cyukczexARCrmEXDExGz9lrWm1Be5u0J_kLuLC62pRw_hX-Vc5cSGeM/s1600/GasMask.JPG" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">War stories were the low hanging
640. fruit.  My father, a combat veteran of
641. WWII and Vietnam, told many tales.  Once
642. he spoke of being in charge of a detail in the Philippines, during the closing
643. days of WWII, whose duty was to exhume soldiers, recently and hastily buried,
644. for return to their families.  A grisly task.  Protective
645. equipment consisted of gas masks – his worst wartime experience and too grim to
646. expand upon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
647. <div class="MsoNormal">
648. <br /></div>
649. <div class="MsoNormal">
650. <span lang="EN-GB">Next I considered sharing something
651. "scary" of my own – like a failed attempt at first aid at the scene
652. of a stabbing - steak knife through the carotid, definitely DRT "Dead
653. Right There" (not to be confused with CTD "Circling the Drain") –
654. again too grim.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
655. <div class="MsoNormal">
656. <br /></div>
657. <div class="MsoNormal">
658. <span lang="EN-GB">Seeking a lighter side, I trod the murky
659. corners of my brain for other experiences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
660. <div class="MsoNormal">
661. <br /></div>
662. <div class="MsoNormal">
663. <span lang="EN-GB">I once worked as a night security guard in
664. a medical complex in San Antonio, Texas. 
665. At twilight, in a dark and deserted medical building, I was checking
666. locks on doors. Finding one unlocked, I entered to check the office.  Immediately in front of me was a
667. skeleton.  I will admit to being briefly
668. startled – story too short and too dull.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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670. <br /></div>
671. <div class="MsoNormal">
672. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQ2W7HuihWdcTs0uGub-o6KQsZFMGWM_7JRashgQMipDFirTcB3GEbET3tMkIxdk1nrjID-IJ88njMMqtZFkOj3JdWXEuf4gQ7Z2sIEIMAmWRRBeYQOTnXq5oSw6Jrk073vIcaGRhYrJF/s1600/Cemetary1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQ2W7HuihWdcTs0uGub-o6KQsZFMGWM_7JRashgQMipDFirTcB3GEbET3tMkIxdk1nrjID-IJ88njMMqtZFkOj3JdWXEuf4gQ7Z2sIEIMAmWRRBeYQOTnXq5oSw6Jrk073vIcaGRhYrJF/s1600/Cemetary1.jpg" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">Then there are the cemeteries I have
673. visited, a must wherever I travel.  I
674. have always said that cemeteries are people at their best – everyone getting
675. along without regard for race, color, creed, or politics.  There are great cemeteries, large and small,
676. all over the north and south.  In the
677. southwest, many appear a</span></div>
678. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
679. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCAwCu_wzUthSDEBvzotWhZn91PCDbh47fa2D35YaIWlYyDVGSVHy_YqFMYx-LuKRTirECNXrcANVJfC2u4yY3UaBWndhiB7exNEzfQpyJ4Q_B9FadqAPAQJmU3s3YnIAHv27njKRiKAdZ/s1600/Cemetary2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCAwCu_wzUthSDEBvzotWhZn91PCDbh47fa2D35YaIWlYyDVGSVHy_YqFMYx-LuKRTirECNXrcANVJfC2u4yY3UaBWndhiB7exNEzfQpyJ4Q_B9FadqAPAQJmU3s3YnIAHv27njKRiKAdZ/s1600/Cemetary2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
680. bit plain, but often have a stark beauty of their
681. own.  At one clinic, in a dusty, dreary
682. community, I would occasionally go to the nearby cemetery and eat lunch under
683. the trees.  Very peaceful and the
684. permanent residents were excellent luncheon companions.  No ghosts, noises or other signs of haunting –
685. so a poor story.<o:p></o:p><br />
686. <div class="MsoNormal">
687. <br /></div>
688. <div class="MsoNormal">
689. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicF74MEMN31IimgbxqCZPSpdte2IBfSGYlnUMbza15HuoN9D6W6YSoA2spDmc4siOjNvM9Y6EADXMEtiBtQan2QejKpmRNZ81UmT3VKBJrwz9fQ6cCn5Br7oSw40XRSL_IeY52SQvdflcF/s1600/MorgueGurney.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicF74MEMN31IimgbxqCZPSpdte2IBfSGYlnUMbza15HuoN9D6W6YSoA2spDmc4siOjNvM9Y6EADXMEtiBtQan2QejKpmRNZ81UmT3VKBJrwz9fQ6cCn5Br7oSw40XRSL_IeY52SQvdflcF/s1600/MorgueGurney.JPG" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">Alternatively, while employed in a
690. hospital, I became adept at placing the deceased into body bags by myself.  If that sounds easy, try it with a large
691. individual, whose body is all "loosey-goosey," not stiff as a post, laying
692. on a stretcher.  After "bagging and
693. tagging," I would take them to the "green room," our morgue,
694. which was actually painted blue.  To move
695. the body through the hospital without disturbing the sensibilities of patients
696. and visitors, we had a special gurney. 
697. It had a metal lower shelf to place the body upon and an upper frame that was flat.  A large white,
698. form-fitted drape was put over the top, giving the gurney the appearance of a
699. rolling banquet table.  While prepping
700. the body, bagging, and transporting to the morgue, I kept up a monologue with
701. the deceased.  I spoke of events
702. precipitating demise, visitors if any, where we were going and how we would get
703. there.  After placing the departed upon a
704. shelf, with others, I extended my best wishes and left.  None of my charges ever replied, or called upon
705. me later – so that is a story of that takes the "long way around the
706. barn" to be mundane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
707. <div class="MsoNormal">
708. <br /></div>
709. <div class="MsoNormal">
710. <span lang="EN-GB">Then there was the Halloween party with the
711. theme "come as your favorite doctor or patient."  The most memorable costume was that of a
712. nurse who came dressed in a body bag as one of our "frequent flyers"
713. who finally managed to buy the proverbial farm.  Stories like that are too tasteless for lay
714. people, and unless you have worked in an ER, law enforcement, or similar field,
715. you will not understand the need to laugh at otherwise grim affairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
716. <div class="MsoNormal">
717. <br /></div>
718. <div class="MsoNormal">
719. <span lang="EN-GB">Having established that
720. "real-life" death is unfit for human consumption (but O.K. for
721. zombies?); let us have some fun with drinks with death themes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
722. <div class="MsoNormal">
723. <br /></div>
724. <div class="MsoNormal">
725. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Ca6p7W3z5MT2sB72YSrN_9zzADBjN_ZgE67r5Sx6jpMTyMAraF9HHScCp8J5-IpJcqqIY2ALPk7C-8zREWPRvMTdaa9eu7PUXYjtcoAxOp3Pnqi0TS7mxJFYntHidtmiMpunrEtXLZs8/s1600/RequiemMass.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Ca6p7W3z5MT2sB72YSrN_9zzADBjN_ZgE67r5Sx6jpMTyMAraF9HHScCp8J5-IpJcqqIY2ALPk7C-8zREWPRvMTdaa9eu7PUXYjtcoAxOp3Pnqi0TS7mxJFYntHidtmiMpunrEtXLZs8/s1600/RequiemMass.jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">The first drink is <i>"The Requiem."</i>  Now
726. for you non-Catholics out there, a Requiem or Requiem Mass, is a prayer service
727. for the dead.  Its name comes from the
728. opening line of the mass “<i>Requiem
729. aeternam dona eis</i>" or "grant them rest forever..."  From the Requiem we also get <i>"Requiescant in pace,"</i>  “May they rest in peace” – the familiar R.I.P.
730. on tombstones. The <i>Requiem</i> we are
731. interested in is from <b><i>The Flowing</i> <i>Bowl</i></b>, 1898, by Willie Schmidt. It is a
732. tasty mixed drink, rather like eggnog. The only addition to the recipe that I
733. would recommend is a dash of nutmeg on top.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
734. <div class="MsoNormal">
735. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
736. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
737. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMG5gNvNv-ynlpfal3pvVqY3hgcCgREb2Z2EPXSA0iqtpuvvjxxCqI_LOTUj4pu2kyUgjB8RWS4wVPK69jlP0XyNGqmEAa0U846cGJDPCezeGb3OyJjR99aTNMuPMajvB509HRlWEfXWdn/s1600/Requiemdnk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMG5gNvNv-ynlpfal3pvVqY3hgcCgREb2Z2EPXSA0iqtpuvvjxxCqI_LOTUj4pu2kyUgjB8RWS4wVPK69jlP0XyNGqmEAa0U846cGJDPCezeGb3OyJjR99aTNMuPMajvB509HRlWEfXWdn/s1600/Requiemdnk.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
738. <div class="MsoNormal">
739. <br /></div>
740. <div class="MsoNormal">
741. Following the <i>Requiem</i>, it is only natural to use a <i>"Corpse Reviver"</i> to get those synapses firing and animate
742. our burned out, lifeless bodies.</div>
743. <div class="MsoNormal">
744. <br /></div>
745. <div class="MsoNormal">
746. <span lang="EN-GB">By 1861, the <i>Corpse Reviver</i> was deemed "a celebrated drink."  A creation of the London Haymarket district,
747. it was billed as an American drink.  In
748. fact, about 1878 the famous bartender/author Jerry Thomas mocked the purveyors
749. of liquor around Charing Cross for selling English drinks as American
750. drinks.  He went on to say that he was
751. about to open an American bar in London<i> "and show the Britishers what's
752. what. Then there'll be no need to brew bogus Yankee drinks!"</i><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
753. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQmATx8h55YISMxFCC7xRSj345qg5hcMgWrFGZ_cWvQCMixvb6ok6oW_O2bFC3jjKGUTdONVBpWVsCRqjb8xZl_M2LQUEUd2HZ7La4X2rvjTbljv1ArYbiuoJW_5jgDiFiUxMzAt2vTySv/s1600/CorpseReviverDnk.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQmATx8h55YISMxFCC7xRSj345qg5hcMgWrFGZ_cWvQCMixvb6ok6oW_O2bFC3jjKGUTdONVBpWVsCRqjb8xZl_M2LQUEUd2HZ7La4X2rvjTbljv1ArYbiuoJW_5jgDiFiUxMzAt2vTySv/s1600/CorpseReviverDnk.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
754. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Recipes courtesy Boothby's <i>World Drinks</i>, 1934</td></tr>
755. </tbody></table>
756. </span></div>
757. <div class="MsoNormal">
758. <span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
759. <div class="MsoNormal">
760. Now that we have had our <i>Requiem</i>, and our <i>Corpse Reviver</i>, it seems appropriate to follow with the “<i>Zombie</i>.” 
761. I have no interest in the flesh-eating ghouls of modern television and
762. cinema.  Everyone growing up in the
763. 1950's knows that a "real" zombie is merely a person, living or dead,
764. under the control of a voodoo priest or priestess.  No flesh eating, no rotting body parts,
765. pretty much a boring minion of the possessor. </div>
766. <div class="MsoNormal">
767. <br /></div>
768. <div class="MsoNormal">
769. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLglrLSHi8ch_k6umWOh6ztoI9DkTs2Dp80eWTUhAuFdjnDJdX62x-cRxBCtR_WncgIpxzx9XYeGWQM1FCm6lFQfyFNtc-A5OGFuK-NM8jetTvsDBpxi7dRdDcTrkwUYOSK8-Jgyfz9mOn/s1600/ZombieReal.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLglrLSHi8ch_k6umWOh6ztoI9DkTs2Dp80eWTUhAuFdjnDJdX62x-cRxBCtR_WncgIpxzx9XYeGWQM1FCm6lFQfyFNtc-A5OGFuK-NM8jetTvsDBpxi7dRdDcTrkwUYOSK8-Jgyfz9mOn/s1600/ZombieReal.jpg" width="236" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">My preferred zombie, that of the
770. "classic" black and white movies of the 1930’s, is indeed the only
771. genuine zombie, so a pox on the rest of you. 
772. As proof, I offer a <i>Life</i>
773. magazine article.  We are cognizant that
774. anything printed in a major periodical by reputable authors must be true – why
775. else would anyone read the <i>Sun</i> or the
776. <i>Mirror</i>?  In December of 1937, <i>Life</i> magazine did an article entitled "Black Haiti: Where Old
777. Africa and the New World Meet."  Included
778. is a photo by to "Zora Neale Hurston, Negro author with a Guggenheim
779. scholarship…" and described as "the only zombie ever
780. photographed." According to the author, the person/zombie died (or was
781. drugged into a coma) and buried in 1907, returning "naked and
782. demented" to her fathers farm in 1916. From the photo, she is clearly not
783. decomposing or shedding body parts. 
784. Indeed, with her unkempt appearance and her blank stare, she looks like
785. the zombies in those classic movies.  Prima
786. facie evidence that the old zombies my generation knew are the only genuine
787. zombies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
788. <div class="MsoNormal">
789. <br /></div>
790. <div class="MsoNormal">
791. <span lang="EN-GB">As to the drink, the <i>“Zombie”</i> was the invention of Donn "the Beachcomber"
792. Beach, who created it in the 1930's. Originally, it was sold no more than two
793. to a customer.  Its claim to fame lies in
794. its potency.  I can testify to this.  In my youth, when so many of us have manure
795. for brains, I ill advisedly downed a dozen in a chug-a-lug contest in Juarez,
796. Mexico, after an evening of drinking.  Fortunately,
797. I did not drive nor ended up in a hospital. 
798. After trying to pick a fight with a group of soldiers, it was the
799. sickest night of my life (the cabrito burritos probably did not help) and I
800. gave up any sort of drinking for almost five years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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802. <br /></div>
803. <div class="MsoNormal">
804. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUlw2wKwrIiY-lcjSn7EchiEf5um8C9oPqenF7qdWqNE47Y-6_HJESsjV_3Cbtg5QE_LZI3fZ7byDmzWSuXiSZSthng7onhlAaAMiZvgRiGRqIpz9QH0N2D_Yr8JPQO_-D6qpadGrwexJ0/s1600/ZombieDnk.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUlw2wKwrIiY-lcjSn7EchiEf5um8C9oPqenF7qdWqNE47Y-6_HJESsjV_3Cbtg5QE_LZI3fZ7byDmzWSuXiSZSthng7onhlAaAMiZvgRiGRqIpz9QH0N2D_Yr8JPQO_-D6qpadGrwexJ0/s1600/ZombieDnk.jpg" width="208" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">The "<i>Zombie</i>," like so many drinks, has metastasized into many
805. versions over the years.  I have chosen a
806. version "from the land down under" – Australia, courtesy of <i>The Australian Bartender's Guide</i>,
807. Stebben & Corsar, 1990. While not the most elaborate of <i>Zombies</i>, it is one easily made in the
808. home bar and I would suggest no more than one to a customer.  In addition, the Juarez <i>Zombies</i> were blue, so if you want a 1960’s South of the Border
809. version, substitute blue curacao.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
810. <br />
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812. <br /></div>
813. <div class="MsoNormal">
814. Enjoy your Halloween celebrations and, please, remember "If you drink, don't drive."</div>
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816. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZ4mULMffVQPpFHy2GFdOAMeMUCw4BX_lgbOhlX5E5NpgWwr4uN_U0yni4sgtmDzhqqDkqRt-UOMbmvPbej7odyXl4RH-PWYdgapu-Jjx8DybL2Yqj-OAABpC3EXF2MbHTQX-8BwSkUQY/s1600/BottomsUp.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZ4mULMffVQPpFHy2GFdOAMeMUCw4BX_lgbOhlX5E5NpgWwr4uN_U0yni4sgtmDzhqqDkqRt-UOMbmvPbej7odyXl4RH-PWYdgapu-Jjx8DybL2Yqj-OAABpC3EXF2MbHTQX-8BwSkUQY/s1600/BottomsUp.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>
817. <div class="MsoNormal">
818. One of the more interesting cocktail books
819. in my library is <i><b>Bottom's Up</b></i>,
820. compiled and edited by Ted Saucier.</div>
821. <div class="MsoNormal">
822. <br /></div>
823. <div class="MsoNormal">
824. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimUg9dkHzepbLvbLRCO4KC8XB4pG2eAOQpWfjcqtT9aL58vOFWcXPBFKkmNCBDaE5bzE7x3hQX8w_H-TTI9MxiJRm79MsxgjqD1e47DJn20Wz5J3-Py3LNMsWCVWUTwrMN1HXINo_rc7XW/s1600/WeekendAtTheWaldorf.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimUg9dkHzepbLvbLRCO4KC8XB4pG2eAOQpWfjcqtT9aL58vOFWcXPBFKkmNCBDaE5bzE7x3hQX8w_H-TTI9MxiJRm79MsxgjqD1e47DJn20Wz5J3-Py3LNMsWCVWUTwrMN1HXINo_rc7XW/s1600/WeekendAtTheWaldorf.JPG" width="131" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">Ted Saucier had a successful career as a
825. "flack," or publicist for the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.  From the late 1930's through 1950's he was
826. frequently mentioned in Billboard magazine for his publicity prowess in
827. promoting entertainment at the Waldorf. 
828. He also served as the technical advisor for hotel operations in the 1945
829. movie "Weekend at the Waldorf."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
830. <div class="MsoNormal">
831. <br /></div>
832. <div class="MsoNormal">
833. <span lang="EN-GB">Published in 1951 and pre-dating Playboy
834. magazine by two years, it seems Saucier used the passion for pin-up girls and
835. cheesecake, that blossomed in World War II, as a marketing hook to set his book
836. of drink recipes apart from other others of the period. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
837. <div class="MsoNormal">
838. <br /></div>
839. <div class="MsoNormal">
840. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5cnedkvyKXTwvAaI0uyCAI4Hmt6krAxKcMzSiLeOCikEB0J8kIexCHvhu4ggE4skEkxVUVePExhOU1XuNGleLhKow3pew5cN_j81aHO_YWdBKbboix6Yo5gDyh0jhqWnZjA8myES6isc_/s1600/JRussell.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5cnedkvyKXTwvAaI0uyCAI4Hmt6krAxKcMzSiLeOCikEB0J8kIexCHvhu4ggE4skEkxVUVePExhOU1XuNGleLhKow3pew5cN_j81aHO_YWdBKbboix6Yo5gDyh0jhqWnZjA8myES6isc_/s1600/JRussell.JPG" width="168" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3-f9MufJD9xPm9R9zbCAe_MY815wtZYhcF0mol3nOrGODbXVYTrCDsEH7rQ_X6JDq78u9kwzr5-T7tgsc57ITS50ac4FTzo1mzcXs83mPe4hdH-38HYqoLzeodjwk5HIql9SFp9WUI0fV/s1600/Cheesecake.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3-f9MufJD9xPm9R9zbCAe_MY815wtZYhcF0mol3nOrGODbXVYTrCDsEH7rQ_X6JDq78u9kwzr5-T7tgsc57ITS50ac4FTzo1mzcXs83mPe4hdH-38HYqoLzeodjwk5HIql9SFp9WUI0fV/s1600/Cheesecake.JPG" width="148" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">In the early 1900’s, “cheesecake” was news
841. photographer slang for a photo whose chief merit was a view of a woman's
842. "gams" or legs. By the 1940's it had become synonymous with images
843. characteristic of famous "pin-up girls" like Betty Grable and Jane
844. Russell. A 1951 ad for a program on improving business  marketing, featured a segment entitled
845. "How the Magic of Cheesecake Builds the Gross."  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
846. <div class="MsoNormal">
847. <br /></div>
848. <div class="MsoNormal">
849. <span lang="EN-GB">In the description of the book, <i><b>Bottom's Up</b></i>, much is made of the
850. illustrations having been done by "distinguished artists." This seems
851. to echo the old joke about buying Playboy for its articles.  Not that the articles are without merit, just that they are incidental to the intent of the magazine.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
852. <div class="MsoNormal">
853. <br /></div>
854. <div class="MsoNormal">
855. <span lang="EN-GB">The background of the artists contributing “cheesecake”
856. to <i><b>Bottom's Up</b></i> supports the
857. claim.  Al Dorne, provider of the
858. cover/title art, had done considerable advertising art as diverse as Lifebuoy
859. soap and the U.S. Coast Guard.  Born
860. "in  the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge,"
861. leaving school at 13, he eventually became the president of the Society of
862. Illustrators and founder of Famous Artists Art School - whose ads were featured
863. in comic books and magazines in the 1950-60's. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
864. <div class="MsoNormal">
865. <br /></div>
866. <div class="MsoNormal">
867. <span lang="EN-GB">The twelve full page, glossy, provocative
868. images "by twelve of America's  most
869. distinguished artists" in a style we see show up in Playboy by artists
870. like Vargas, is not the only similarity to Playboy magazine.  </span></div>
871. <div class="MsoNormal">
872. <span lang="EN-GB"><i><br /></i></span></div>
873. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
874. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhuEeDhHn9ZbVIg9rhEm79wWfiwBxLW0vSG5ewfgIqI9jILDwD0fw5WievOJF2X5bQTWECY65igw_cmCb_t1_AAsvFCWOLvUuhiBzVqFYSrpRppR0SPnE9_y8ny9uIFrQzKeF-LGj6wRYH/s1600/FemlinNot.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhuEeDhHn9ZbVIg9rhEm79wWfiwBxLW0vSG5ewfgIqI9jILDwD0fw5WievOJF2X5bQTWECY65igw_cmCb_t1_AAsvFCWOLvUuhiBzVqFYSrpRppR0SPnE9_y8ny9uIFrQzKeF-LGj6wRYH/s1600/FemlinNot.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
875. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patterson's margin sprite</td></tr>
876. </tbody></table>
877. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
878. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7HHh5fvdR7DD_yVmICySJQ4eINIshi3QO1sl5dRaBwGZ1NDhCJozkbDIt97v0YmIksEGQ0xBPxYwgpjhiyyZ5clgym9N1KSqcfZy6qWo_NhtJ6uRip2LS-lHKljiQY-VcU45Ml1nSEZWR/s1600/FemlinNieman.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7HHh5fvdR7DD_yVmICySJQ4eINIshi3QO1sl5dRaBwGZ1NDhCJozkbDIt97v0YmIksEGQ0xBPxYwgpjhiyyZ5clgym9N1KSqcfZy6qWo_NhtJ6uRip2LS-lHKljiQY-VcU45Ml1nSEZWR/s1600/FemlinNieman.jpg" width="154" /></a></td></tr>
879. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nieman's "femlin"</td></tr>
880. </tbody></table>
881. <div class="MsoNormal">
882. <span lang="EN-GB"><i><b>Bottom's
883. Up</b></i> margins feature decorative sprites, done by Russell Patterson. Leroy
884. Neiman's "femlin" in Playboy appears to have been inspired by
885. Patterson's work in <i><b>Bottom's Up</b></i>.  Patterson really was a distinguished
886. artist.  He created seminal images of the
887. "flappers" of the 1920's and influenced the artwork of others, around
888. the world, with his "Patterson Girl,” a much sought after image in
889. advertising and magazine covers.  The
890. Patterson Girl was as well known to Americans of the time, as were the Ziegfeld
891. Girls.  In 1931 he was described as an
892. "illustrator, cartoonist, and protege of William Randolph Hearst," continuing
893. in the same vein into the 1950's.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
894. <div class="MsoNormal">
895. <br /></div>
896. <div class="MsoNormal">
897. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMO_9Qji67WbGtG61WJ-0MgX4FSCxiSPwqpboALCAB_bBfwqkiV_Pq3M1xArIB2ufU823VKMRjSieuBlOD1I3MNfsKQ8uBewSoLVjuy03rwTeLqRund3zpfKxuPqPtNhOXt8gM9JjcQLIa/s1600/Unclesamwantyou.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMO_9Qji67WbGtG61WJ-0MgX4FSCxiSPwqpboALCAB_bBfwqkiV_Pq3M1xArIB2ufU823VKMRjSieuBlOD1I3MNfsKQ8uBewSoLVjuy03rwTeLqRund3zpfKxuPqPtNhOXt8gM9JjcQLIa/s1600/Unclesamwantyou.jpg" width="149" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">Amongst the other illustrators, we indeed
898. have a distinguished cast. James Montgomery Flagg was the creator of the WWI
899. poster of Uncle Sugar saying he wants you for the U.S. Army.  Arthur William Brown was known for pencil and
900. ink illustrations in magazines such as<i> Colliers</i>, the <i>Saturday Evening Post</i> and for
901. books.  Ben Stahl, in addition to being
902. an illustrator, was also the author of <i>Blackbeard’s
903. Ghost</i>, which became a Disney movie.  James
904. Falter was an illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post and prolific creator or
905. WWII posters – particularly for the WAVES.  </span></div>
906. <div class="MsoNormal">
907. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
908. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
909. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQwdbvs1LB-3D27CSfauKeJtlK_D4Km5J7yAsrwL-T5y1Xx0ZPm4seZnk7rpw0fi6KBqHlbZybuOl1wJ5f163GKK-frqNJYaYfNRxJx4FE6dQSM4DfPJ8ggTeqh4ojs201yaffcxLOSEV/s1600/PicCircus.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwQwdbvs1LB-3D27CSfauKeJtlK_D4Km5J7yAsrwL-T5y1Xx0ZPm4seZnk7rpw0fi6KBqHlbZybuOl1wJ5f163GKK-frqNJYaYfNRxJx4FE6dQSM4DfPJ8ggTeqh4ojs201yaffcxLOSEV/s1600/PicCircus.JPG" width="116" /></a></td></tr>
910. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Picadilly Circus" by Bundy<br />
911. in <i>Bottom's Up</i></td></tr>
912. </tbody></table>
913. <div class="MsoNormal">
914. <span lang="EN-GB">The story of Gilbert Bundy who, after a
915. brilliant career as an artist/illustrator, went to the Pacific theatre, with
916. the Marines, as a combat artist for Hearst newspapers is perhaps the most
917. poignant--particularly today when PTSD is so often in the news. Trapped for
918. several hours under enemy fire in the wreckage of a landing craft on Tarawa, beneath
919. the bodies of dead Marines, he escaped by swimming away at night.  He survived the ordeal only to take his own life
920. on the five-year anniversary of the event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
921. <div class="MsoNormal">
922. <br /></div>
923. <div class="MsoNormal">
924. <span lang="EN-GB">For those that are fans of illustrators,
925. others contributing to <i><b>Bottom’s Up</b></i> are John La Gatta, Phil Dormont, Earl Cordrey,
926. Bradshaw Crandall, and Robert Bushnell. 
927. Works, as well as biographies, of all of the artists are viewable online
928. and quite interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
929. <div class="MsoNormal">
930. <br /></div>
931. <div class="MsoNormal">
932. <i><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Bottom's
933. Up</b></span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> does not need the risque artwork to justify its
934. space in a collection of cocktail books. 
935. It contains 780 recipes; many are signature drinks from high society hotels,
936. individuals, and watering holes, and are not to be found elsewhere.  The credited drinks reflect an array of
937. people and businesses with whom a “flack,” for a hotel as prominent as the
938. Waldorf, would have had contact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
939. <div class="MsoNormal">
940. <br /></div>
941. <div class="MsoNormal">
942. <span lang="EN-GB">Two drinks excerpted from <i><b>Bottom’s Up</b></i> that I particularly enjoyed are featured below. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
943. <div class="MsoNormal">
944. <br /></div>
945. <div class="MsoNormal">
946. <span lang="EN-GB">Enric Madriguera, to whom this drink is
947. credited, is unknowingly familiar to many of you. While his specialty was music
948. with a Latin tempo, his rendition of “Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee” is
949. featured on the soundtrack of the movie “Paper Moon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
950. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
951. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1Wz6ge-n4JRPutNL9Bm8QKmAfbstS7qq5_nGl9K8o9rAObe6scMRaadBpetkJ2THYX70J7814jAzwa5CYO-dP3Euanzny22IcfhEZsyqe5TlYR42T_QUCx34m0GxrI4cqBctUQk-KPuQ/s1600/RickeyMadriguera.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1Wz6ge-n4JRPutNL9Bm8QKmAfbstS7qq5_nGl9K8o9rAObe6scMRaadBpetkJ2THYX70J7814jAzwa5CYO-dP3Euanzny22IcfhEZsyqe5TlYR42T_QUCx34m0GxrI4cqBctUQk-KPuQ/s1600/RickeyMadriguera.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
952. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Recipe & Artwork courtesy <i>Bottom's Up</i></td></tr>
953. </tbody></table>
954. <div class="MsoNormal">
955. <span lang="EN-GB"> </span>Another, is one of the “railroad” drinks in <i><b>Bottom's Up</b></i> served on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe.  I did not have the pleasure of trying this drink
956. as a passenger, but I had the opportunity to ride the Super Chief from Kansas
957. City to Albuquerque in the 1960’s.</div>
958. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
959. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJsmHgnya5tPLREwo0EWH7ljG0OGsyU2Lt6Xo6d_SxWFiIwFpvgk7f5mzaPcae92y4AXlfEW5ypWTkGngtWBFgnz59OhjZuHYPTPP25sGzHj0QzQdqTFBRq6KCH24225zWAk7cFpnAHcoh/s1600/SFCooler.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJsmHgnya5tPLREwo0EWH7ljG0OGsyU2Lt6Xo6d_SxWFiIwFpvgk7f5mzaPcae92y4AXlfEW5ypWTkGngtWBFgnz59OhjZuHYPTPP25sGzHj0QzQdqTFBRq6KCH24225zWAk7cFpnAHcoh/s1600/SFCooler.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
960. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Recipe & Artwork courtesy <i>Bottom's Up</i></td></tr>
961. </tbody></table>
962. <div class="MsoNormal">
963. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
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965. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidV41btAeMQm2yzrn9MSyHt41dVMPMiTTKOZ7PIuaXOsU5MJwSSuQjJ0m7alJawdL-5v6ZGortOV8uZQHmpeCkPEqxa2r-H5RRa6dkL0szOQi6RlYnBEVdAwO-oXp4N_w8JjslrOilWiI7/s1600/Jerries&Mule.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidV41btAeMQm2yzrn9MSyHt41dVMPMiTTKOZ7PIuaXOsU5MJwSSuQjJ0m7alJawdL-5v6ZGortOV8uZQHmpeCkPEqxa2r-H5RRa6dkL0szOQi6RlYnBEVdAwO-oXp4N_w8JjslrOilWiI7/s1600/Jerries&Mule.jpg" height="156" width="200" /></a>Last week was the anniversary of the start
966. of Loos Offensive of  World War I.
967. Notable for the death of Rudyard Kipling’s only son - one of the many
968. casualties on that field of battle, and the extensive use of shrapnel across
969. the Loos valley, particularly on crossroads and communications trenches to
970. prevent enemy movement.  On a lighter
971. note, Kaiser Bill was also captured. Unfortunately, this was not Queen
972. Victoria's malignant, moustachioed, grandson Willy, but rather a forlorn German
973. army mule.</div>
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975. <br /></div>
976. <div class="MsoNormal">
977. <span lang="EN-GB">Hearing about the anniversary of Loos, renewed
978. an old interest in artillery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
979. <div class="MsoNormal">
980. <br /></div>
981. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
982. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheT0ANsC0Cm3KQ5AOBzMYqRFNiH_E3sd2JHoFmoovzQV43SfWGywXKwR_h-isTUf5hL5cwDZ4iEGfgxzaCzdc8MCp-78lY8Q_tswBhxsF8cScefmJlKFQo7pauXyr0khu2DI8bjEYjr0jF/s1600/120mmgun.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheT0ANsC0Cm3KQ5AOBzMYqRFNiH_E3sd2JHoFmoovzQV43SfWGywXKwR_h-isTUf5hL5cwDZ4iEGfgxzaCzdc8MCp-78lY8Q_tswBhxsF8cScefmJlKFQo7pauXyr0khu2DI8bjEYjr0jF/s1600/120mmgun.JPG" height="152" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
983. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A gun of B Btry, 65th AAA Bn,1958</td></tr>
984. </tbody></table>
985. <div class="MsoNormal">
986. <span lang="EN-GB">When I was young, my fathers' first command
987. after OCS was a battery of 120mm anti-aircraft guns.  The battery was just outside a Marine base, near Naha, on Okinawa.  </span>The 120's were the
988. penultimate development in anti-aircraft artillery, soon to be made obsolete by
989. missiles. The gun tube was about 24 feet long and capable of firing a shell at 3100 ft/sec to an altitude of 60,000
990. feet.</div>
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992. <br /></div>
993. <br />
994. <br />
995. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTNfvjeeRg1TDd0YQ5mKeie0_KYSiq7FOft6bx5M2ch2LzRqpQCvLwCIQROjRYx6E4g83ct-okZBsXzmo-KkcBwlDnwRQBar8q5XvBhy9r0B14sfd3YJLar_I7OHV4M9yol_El9T0NyjiB/s1600/120gun2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTNfvjeeRg1TDd0YQ5mKeie0_KYSiq7FOft6bx5M2ch2LzRqpQCvLwCIQROjRYx6E4g83ct-okZBsXzmo-KkcBwlDnwRQBar8q5XvBhy9r0B14sfd3YJLar_I7OHV4M9yol_El9T0NyjiB/s1600/120gun2.jpg" height="200" width="136" /></a>On firing, the guns report was a
996. deafening CRACK!!! that hurt the ears and sounded like a monstrous high
997. velocity rifle. The firing of the battery frequently shattered windows on the Marine base.  On one occasion when Dad took me out to watch his battery fire,
998. he gave me the opportunity to fire a Quad-50 machine gun, two of which were
999. part of the battery.<br />
1000. <br />
1001. <div class="MsoNormal">
1002. <br /></div>
1003. <div class="MsoNormal">
1004. Back to the shrapnel shell - The Germans
1005. can rightfully claim invention and first use of the shrapnel shell.  In the 17th century, they developed a
1006. projectile called the <i>Hagelkugel</i>, or
1007. "hail shell".  It was a lead
1008. cylinder with a fuse and bursting charge at one end, the other end was
1009. sealed.  Behind the bursting charge was
1010. the "hail" - metal fragments, bullets, or pebbles. When loaded into
1011. the cannon, the fused end of the projectile faced the cannons charge.  On firing, the bursting charge of the <i>Hagelkugel</i> released the "hail"
1012. at about 100 yards from the gun.</div>
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1014. <br /></div>
1015. <div class="MsoNormal">
1016. <span lang="EN-GB">The <i>Hagelkugel</i>
1017. was used during the 1641 siege of Gennep, in the Netherlands.  Unfortunately for German bragging rights,
1018. artillery was an art and early artllerists were extremely secretive.  This caused the <i>Hagelkugel</i> to sink into obscurity, allowing an Englishman to claim
1019. invention and have his name forever linked to the Shrapnel Shell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1021. <br /></div>
1022. <div class="MsoNormal">
1023. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyXTx4_k5GXivhh0WC5VRgM8t3vp6OwJh2x2tJ5UuQJNwr5eFOlqokYafTv8peziIzJtz4K1u610wm8WW-0BOkbx9e1vrqXC867SiLGRMbt5jbgbT0RwQDu13e5Hk-SBzbmiIJ2FAt8V0k/s1600/Henry-shrapnel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyXTx4_k5GXivhh0WC5VRgM8t3vp6OwJh2x2tJ5UuQJNwr5eFOlqokYafTv8peziIzJtz4K1u610wm8WW-0BOkbx9e1vrqXC867SiLGRMbt5jbgbT0RwQDu13e5Hk-SBzbmiIJ2FAt8V0k/s1600/Henry-shrapnel.jpg" height="200" width="166" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">Henry Shrapnel developed his version of the
1024. Hagelkugel around 1784.  Originally known
1025. as “spherical iron cased shot,” it used a primitive wooden fuse - a wood plug
1026. through which a gunpowder fuse ran.  The
1027. interior of the iron case was filled with black powder and lead balls.  On bursting, the shrapnel was projected
1028. across an area of about 150 yards. The advantage of the shrapnel shell over
1029. grape or canister is that instead of being a short-range antipersonnel
1030. projectile, it could be fired at longer distances as determined by the fuse and
1031. bursting charge.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1032. <div class="MsoNormal">
1033. <br /></div>
1034. <div class="MsoNormal">
1035. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrcfShtkeQT73UHx8I7JrcRw2SfeZ8g8o74BifVYYlKNFznXGrjylEP1hE_HS9nRhAtkrIh6YUojCHy0nbfZAbYJZVdwMCdjOWcm2AsPor-B3Ifx5VyyE2zwIRyOVftcO72oL60okWrIt/s1600/Whizz1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrcfShtkeQT73UHx8I7JrcRw2SfeZ8g8o74BifVYYlKNFznXGrjylEP1hE_HS9nRhAtkrIh6YUojCHy0nbfZAbYJZVdwMCdjOWcm2AsPor-B3Ifx5VyyE2zwIRyOVftcO72oL60okWrIt/s1600/Whizz1.JPG" height="135" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">It was first employed in 1804 against
1036. settlers in Dutch Guiana, now Suriname. Officially adopted by the English in
1037. 1808, the Duke of Wellesley wrote that he considered it an important invention
1038. and that it should be kept secret.  Despite
1039. being widely available to British gunners during the Napoleonic Wars, correct use
1040. of the shrapnel shell was poorly understood and it was thought generally unreliable,
1041. largely due to its quirky fuse and the risk of premature explosion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1042. <div class="MsoNormal">
1043. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
1044. <div class="MsoNormal">
1045. <span lang="EN-GB">While modern writers seem fond of stating
1046. the Iron Duke thought it decisive at Waterloo, I find no credible evidence of
1047. that and believe it apocryphal or politically 
1048. motivated since the government officially adopted the round.  Accounts at the time describe it bursting
1049. short amongst friendly troops, others described it as being indifferent or
1050. ineffective.  A Lt. Col. Frith of the
1051. Madras Artillery wrote in 1818 that he had seen it fired into "large
1052. bodies of horse, among whom they were seen to burst, but cannot call to mind a
1053. single man killed by them." While there were battles, like the battle of
1054. Vimiero where the English claimed shrapnel shells contributed to the victory,
1055. reports from the receiving side were mixed ranging from their effect being terrible
1056. to no worse than that of round shot. 
1057. Others said the effect varied from round to round.  The truth probably lies in some middle ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1058. <div class="MsoNormal">
1059. <br /></div>
1060. <div class="MsoNormal">
1061. <span lang="EN-GB">Despite slow acceptance (according to books
1062. of the early-mid 1800's,) Henry Shrapnel received a stipend for his invention
1063. when it was officially adopted and the British government made <i>Shrapnel Shell</i> the official name of the
1064. "spherical cased shot" projectile in 1854 after his family petitioned
1065. for the name change to honor the inventor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1067. <br /></div>
1068. <div class="MsoNormal">
1069. <span lang="EN-GB">Improvements in the fuse, particularly by
1070. Col. E.M. Boxer, and case design continued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1072. <br /></div>
1073. <div class="MsoNormal">
1074. <span lang="EN-GB">According to Bormann in "<i>The Shrapnel Shell in England and in Belgium</i>,"
1075. 1862, the most notable use of the shrapnel shell to date was during the Crimean
1076. War on the last day of the siege of Sebastopol, 8 September 1855.  Officers in a gun position manned by men of
1077. the Royal Naval Brigade, decided to utilize shrapnel shells found in the
1078. battery stores.   Eyewitness accounts
1079. reported these 8-inch shells "mowed down...whole lines of Russian troops
1080. as they sprang to the breast works."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1081. <div class="MsoNormal">
1082. <br /></div>
1083. <div class="MsoNormal">
1084. <span lang="EN-GB">A mere 60 years passed from the siege of
1085. Sebastopol to the start of the Loos offensive. 
1086. During this period much effort was put forth to improve the shrapnel
1087. shell. Fuses were vastly improved.  The
1088. cases for shrapnel projectiles were designed, refined, redesigned and further
1089. refined making the shrapnel delivery pattern increasingly effective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1090. <div class="MsoNormal">
1091. <br /></div>
1092. <div class="MsoNormal">
1093. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU7v7NDdjcZ6ODI0LHVLKhGBGdXCqwCBxZdwOHZwCamD-Ym44uZ0f3Oda4hebbD7v7HucRfJ_gv6D2-wum_JDO1ETsHnJjwrc7T1MuMf282nYMOENQBN1xy0S3qL-8tlweizy6_Ke0WGNo/s1600/Whizz2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU7v7NDdjcZ6ODI0LHVLKhGBGdXCqwCBxZdwOHZwCamD-Ym44uZ0f3Oda4hebbD7v7HucRfJ_gv6D2-wum_JDO1ETsHnJjwrc7T1MuMf282nYMOENQBN1xy0S3qL-8tlweizy6_Ke0WGNo/s1600/Whizz2.JPG" height="200" width="169" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">While originally an anti-personnel weapon,
1094. usage changed during the Great War. The shrapnel shell was found useful in
1095. barrages for cutting barbed wire prior to assaults, and as an early
1096. anti-aircraft shell. Shrapnel shells spurred the development and use of modern
1097. helmets and aircraft armor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1099. <br /></div>
1100. <div class="MsoNormal">
1101. <span lang="EN-GB">Typically delivered by high velocity guns
1102. like the British 18 pounder, the French 75mm, and the German 10cm, the shells
1103. would give little notice of their arrival. There would be a quick "whizzzz"
1104. followed by a sharp "bang!" The German slang for these rounds was
1105. "<i>Ratsch-bum</i>," the Brits
1106. called them "<i>Whizz-bangs</i>."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1108. <br /></div>
1109. <div class="MsoNormal">
1110. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumkQQfL9y-aNK0Cn4y_J8MFbjpgmuWb-4eyWNNhg2J4vB8A-fP8QYN2G-5bW8VbVTm0FIzo4-OXgEeT0_SXClSwsYFp_CPYpHMcTOhpBqmeqX2CQ_DRRx9hJ_MV3Quughy01Re5UcazeY/s1600/WhizzBangctl.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumkQQfL9y-aNK0Cn4y_J8MFbjpgmuWb-4eyWNNhg2J4vB8A-fP8QYN2G-5bW8VbVTm0FIzo4-OXgEeT0_SXClSwsYFp_CPYpHMcTOhpBqmeqX2CQ_DRRx9hJ_MV3Quughy01Re5UcazeY/s1600/WhizzBangctl.JPG" height="400" width="191" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">Fortunately, for my blog, someone around
1111. the time of the War to End All Wars was kind enough to invent a cocktail named
1112. for that high velocity shrapnel shell---the "Whizz Bang." Sadly,
1113. since the winners write the histories, there is no Hagelkugel or Ratsch-bum to savor,
1114. though the Germans paid homage indirectly to old Henry by creating a "<i>Schrapnel-Aufschlag</i>" or
1115. "Shrapnel Charge." As the Hagelkugel predated the Shrapnel Shell, the
1116. Schrapnel-Aufschlag predates the Whizz Bang by several years. </span></div>
1117. <div class="MsoNormal">
1118. <span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
1119. <div class="MsoNormal">
1120. <span lang="EN-GB">Unfortunately,
1121. the <i>Schrapnel-Aufschlag</i> is not nearly
1122. as good a drink as the <i>Whizz Bang</i>
1123. and, like the Hagelkugel, condemned to oblivion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1126. <br />
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1128. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjV1wuBPjNVIr_qSFrtyj7swIVcfdbz43TWfqiEcOGM0yeSPaHCRDtkJctqHHdzcxPVRKn4a4cN7H2YPL0Hy9t6GnPcM0YMa_WGFEzO-NYxvJ0G5zFhuYA8rqMpCJdDoHgpFYyi1wFKFTT/s1600/SchrapnelAufschlag.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjV1wuBPjNVIr_qSFrtyj7swIVcfdbz43TWfqiEcOGM0yeSPaHCRDtkJctqHHdzcxPVRKn4a4cN7H2YPL0Hy9t6GnPcM0YMa_WGFEzO-NYxvJ0G5zFhuYA8rqMpCJdDoHgpFYyi1wFKFTT/s1600/SchrapnelAufschlag.JPG" height="400" width="233" /></a></div>
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1132. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have missed two blogs since my last due to familial
1133. obligations and found myself today casting about for a theme to get me back on
1134. track.  Since I have an interest in the
1135. origin of drinks, and their names, I thought I would borrow from a previous
1136. effort and use the title “What’s In A Name” with the related drink(s) appended.  If this works, I may do more in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1138. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1139. <div class="MsoNormal">
1140. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOtxn0gBfSRXEC2NwU9EKDS2TnsbAaP-UTFBcNNoErQkNYtA_WKTz1flLodlV1u1eBTP2AABjsNMUgwFsudcGjIeuclICZBtWpLx56HQITPxpZIkJyoz6NLIW6XSUHaeh2T8QiHSzG-3k6/s1600/Floroplay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOtxn0gBfSRXEC2NwU9EKDS2TnsbAaP-UTFBcNNoErQkNYtA_WKTz1flLodlV1u1eBTP2AABjsNMUgwFsudcGjIeuclICZBtWpLx56HQITPxpZIkJyoz6NLIW6XSUHaeh2T8QiHSzG-3k6/s1600/Floroplay.jpg" height="200" width="157" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the early 1900's, preceded by the operettas of the 1880's,
1141. the American public became enamored with musical comedy.  The play <i>Floradora</i>
1142. receives much of the credit for this craze. 
1143. A popular play in England in 1899, <i>Florodora</i>
1144. opened in the Casino Theater of New York in 1900.  </span></div>
1145. <div class="MsoNormal">
1146. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1147. <div class="MsoNormal">
1148. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The play involves the imaginary island of Florodora
1149. on which a perfume of the same name is made. 
1150. Said island was stolen from its rightful owner whose daughter still works
1151. in a factory on the island.  The rest of
1152. the plot is convoluted to the extreme but the cast, chorus line, and music seem
1153. to have compensated successfully.  A
1154. feature of the theater was a manikin in the lobby spraying “La Flor de
1155. Florodora” on the theatergoers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1156. <div class="MsoNormal">
1157. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1158. <div class="MsoNormal">
1159. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a slow initial start, publicists started promoting the
1160. play in a manner seen repeated by the movie studios in their heyday.  TV news coverage of the Kardashians pales to that
1161. given the <i>Florodora</i> troupe.  Newspapers featured daily stories about the
1162. cast members, their personal lives, how well they regarded one another and
1163. worked together, their romances and marriage prospects, and of the huge sums of
1164. money that the chorus girls were making by speculating on Wall Street.  To the latter, one has to wonder if their
1165. fiduciary success was due more to the stage door sugar daddies than Wall
1166. Street, but maybe I have seen too many old movies.  Ultimately, <i>Florodora</i> exceeded 500 performances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1167. <div class="MsoNormal">
1168. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
1169. <div class="MsoNormal">
1170. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Florodora</i> was the
1171. first  musical comedy to use the device
1172. of “stunning” fashionable evening gowns, worn by attractive women, to create a memorable
1173. high point in a performance, a trend continued in the Follies of the 1920’s and
1174. 30’s.  Women would go to see the latest
1175. fashions, men to see attractively dressed women.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1176. <div class="MsoNormal">
1177. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1178. <div class="MsoNormal">
1179. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the time, the music was considered “bewitching,” and
1180. people were often heard humming or whistling the tunes.  Leslie Stuart, the composer, said his formula
1181. for writing the music of <i>Florodora</i>
1182. was to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1183. <div class="MsoNormal">
1184. <i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
1185. <div class="MsoNormal">
1186. <i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“…take one memory of Christy
1187. Minstrels, let it simmer in the brain for twenty years.  Add slowly for the music an organist’s
1188. practice in arranging Gregorian chants for the Roman Catholic Church.  Mix well and serve with a half dozen pretty
1189. girls and an equal number of well-dressed men.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
1190. <div class="MsoNormal">
1191. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1192. <div class="MsoNormal">
1193. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7FM7exv4fXOLRmQes8H6Bk0HT0lgrtHVmK3Ctaf7tM8NHo87vHijVk8Yloi4QtH47xpq2DVXHdXiinur4JP3pNOkhLQqUi5WZ5bFJntHlIV3GcuRut0rvVqpnAKMux7q36I0LNc_tnbyP/s1600/florosext.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7FM7exv4fXOLRmQes8H6Bk0HT0lgrtHVmK3Ctaf7tM8NHo87vHijVk8Yloi4QtH47xpq2DVXHdXiinur4JP3pNOkhLQqUi5WZ5bFJntHlIV3GcuRut0rvVqpnAKMux7q36I0LNc_tnbyP/s1600/florosext.jpg" height="125" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The original “Florodora sextette” or the “big six,” none
1194. over 5’4”, was so popular with the American public that chorus girls for years
1195. afterwards, claimed to have been part of the original sextette. Francis Belmont, an original “sextetter,” in
1196. true movie showgirl fashion, managed to marry an English duke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1197. <div class="MsoNormal">
1198. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
1199. <div class="MsoNormal">
1200. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Florodora</i>, its
1201. music, and its stars were immensely popular in the early 1900's.  Like movie related marketing today, the
1202. musical comedy became linked to a variety of products.  A soft drink in Cuba, race horses and
1203. pedigreed dogs, assorted food products, china, dolls, cigars (“three for 10
1204. cents”) and a hybrid long staple cotton named Florodora were but a few.  Having a fondness for ice cream, one of my
1205. favorites is the “Florodora Sundae” – 1 banana, strawberry ice cream,
1206. strawberry fruit, nuts, and whipped cream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1207. <div class="MsoNormal">
1208. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1209. <div class="MsoNormal">
1210. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1920, there was a revival of <i>Florodora</i>, with more chorus girls, and more lavish costumes and
1211. staging.  It was so popular that Fannie
1212. Brice was inspired to do a parody in the <i>Follies</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1213. <div class="MsoNormal">
1214. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1215. <div class="MsoNormal">
1216. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpE1092HIs8LK5wv6bYjw_zZVIgALSluEd7TvOwvp_0L68BpCz1HfHQou1jO_HLeIbVI8mJF3PDur2GKO53XQsONnwF_Ubfeq8DtYCLmPqKgW47sI4jvhKanBlYT_OCEH-qaB0nhBxJDdw/s1600/FloroMovi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpE1092HIs8LK5wv6bYjw_zZVIgALSluEd7TvOwvp_0L68BpCz1HfHQou1jO_HLeIbVI8mJF3PDur2GKO53XQsONnwF_Ubfeq8DtYCLmPqKgW47sI4jvhKanBlYT_OCEH-qaB0nhBxJDdw/s1600/FloroMovi.jpg" height="200" width="132" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEift-9znKkFNEq2la_zPFG3AcK34gkJMkOggomh9CQBmLgKg-vNUMqDoQHOk80Z2aRNqPw_yjO2PY3JM1VOgavs6D98fDuE5HcHFlDRD7qv9ukN8U8PK1JSHsyzOen6yMXl7lVO_g4oXWu5/s1600/Florocosmo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEift-9znKkFNEq2la_zPFG3AcK34gkJMkOggomh9CQBmLgKg-vNUMqDoQHOk80Z2aRNqPw_yjO2PY3JM1VOgavs6D98fDuE5HcHFlDRD7qv9ukN8U8PK1JSHsyzOen6yMXl7lVO_g4oXWu5/s1600/Florocosmo.jpg" height="320" width="145" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Riding its second
1217. wave of popularity, it once again gave advertisers a useful marketing
1218. hook.  <i>Florodora</i> actresses modeled veils in Cosmopolitan magazine.  A massage vibrator was advertised to help
1219. women achieve “Florodora” beauty and sponsored a Florodora beauty contest.  Use of “Florodora” in marketing persisted into
1220. the 1930’s, as both a product name, and as a derogatory expression for
1221. something passé from a previous era.  There was also a movie entitled “<i>The Florodora Girl</i>.”</span></div>
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1223. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
1224. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
1225. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my books, there are at least three "Florodora" related
1226. recipes.  The first two, the <b>Florodora</b> cocktail and the <b>Florodora Fizz</b>, from a 1913 text, are the
1227. earliest recipes I have found.  The <b>Florodora Fizz</b> definitely predates the book. </span></div>
1228. <div class="MsoNormal">
1229. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiShJZk2_h0N4KZrDXqADSTUP3VWkhTP5tvu9YeYTM-JekJnu_1YO1b9HHrXpbJ6GITRyMuYBVagBZV5fVNoAICjAuMwj3ANk_em9rdO77fDIAJAn0bGMpdiqDauLhyphenhyphenED_1dZcuE5de13f8/s1600/FloroCtl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiShJZk2_h0N4KZrDXqADSTUP3VWkhTP5tvu9YeYTM-JekJnu_1YO1b9HHrXpbJ6GITRyMuYBVagBZV5fVNoAICjAuMwj3ANk_em9rdO77fDIAJAn0bGMpdiqDauLhyphenhyphenED_1dZcuE5de13f8/s1600/FloroCtl.jpg" height="320" width="243" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A 1902 advertising magazine, </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Advisor</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, states “The Florodora Fizz
1230. has replaced the Ping Pong Punch as the fashionable drink of the season.” </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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1233. <div class="MsoNormal">
1234. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhScQrHCuEJFqPliWQoLfWmX6LItyNvETb94L3G0GxWrZ-cFeJZQ8RSqMae_01S5ZLLNaoo3mFUj30Hf15f6m443MI0h5sn1R6gUiY4E-hbe0lCBmPXGDpNb3A-KlLO_cVFA4zjVZVWpshx/s1600/FloroFizz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhScQrHCuEJFqPliWQoLfWmX6LItyNvETb94L3G0GxWrZ-cFeJZQ8RSqMae_01S5ZLLNaoo3mFUj30Hf15f6m443MI0h5sn1R6gUiY4E-hbe0lCBmPXGDpNb3A-KlLO_cVFA4zjVZVWpshx/s1600/FloroFizz.jpg" height="200" width="197" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1235. <div class="MsoNormal">
1236. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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1238. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1239. <br />
1240. <br />
1241. <br />
1242. <br />
1243. <br />
1244. <br />
1245. <br />
1246. <br />
1247. The<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Florodora
1248. Cooler</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, easiest for the home bar, is from a publication of the 1930’s.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is probably a Prohibition era drink being gin based, its other ingredients doing well to make the “bathtub”
1249. gins of the Roaring Twenties more palatable.</span><br />
1250. <br />
1251. <br />
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1253. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyL8sZP706yiO_Tl31NEFHyP0u09_OiB9wN5-eJ5zb2QNAoxjIrj6rnhik_1H7wjTRUrzi2QFjHoLBbmHW-_K4napDv_KrRCQy7e63Ro7COc7ASYMA3J7kaz8z97Mo6Be5AiGD2ZbR773j/s1600/FloroCool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyL8sZP706yiO_Tl31NEFHyP0u09_OiB9wN5-eJ5zb2QNAoxjIrj6rnhik_1H7wjTRUrzi2QFjHoLBbmHW-_K4napDv_KrRCQy7e63Ro7COc7ASYMA3J7kaz8z97Mo6Be5AiGD2ZbR773j/s1600/FloroCool.jpg" height="320" width="319" /></a></div>
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1259. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPUVmxGpiAgBZvmJV5h4cjBpLCF3jhaaxtKeyOPz0jUgCT3fT6q6hXi1azhMWOEHVA2MDI4fjne5VYLgWdY196af8JvRFLvYO2QMYpC_qyYKslDY_ODHN5p6W0aFBTYJ1-sJZLfeUAXoG/s1600/DodgePU.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPUVmxGpiAgBZvmJV5h4cjBpLCF3jhaaxtKeyOPz0jUgCT3fT6q6hXi1azhMWOEHVA2MDI4fjne5VYLgWdY196af8JvRFLvYO2QMYpC_qyYKslDY_ODHN5p6W0aFBTYJ1-sJZLfeUAXoG/s1600/DodgePU.JPG" height="161" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As mentioned in a previous blog, in 1965 my father bought me
1260. a 1951 Dodge "B" series pickup truck. 
1261. It was a well-used farm vehicle and I was kept busy looking for used
1262. parts, nominally better than its existing components.  This necessitated outings to junkyards filled
1263. with interesting vehicles of all description, as well as farm and industrial
1264. machinery.  Expeditions to these
1265. emporiums of cast-offs were as enjoyable as any amusement park.  I was able to find and remove the parts
1266. desired, and had the opportunity to “salvage” fair bit of pocket change.  While scavenging parts, I would run my hand
1267. through the space between the seat back and bottom of the old bench seats and usually
1268. come up with a bit of coin---not to mention the odd bit of filth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1269. <div class="MsoNormal">
1270. <br /></div>
1271. <div class="MsoNormal">
1272. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While my friends were interested cars like the '57 Chevy, the
1273. Mustang, and even the Corvair, I had a penchant for anything odd, massive, and
1274. quirky.  For that matter, I still do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1275. <div class="MsoNormal">
1276. <br /></div>
1277. <div class="MsoNormal">
1278. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In one salvage yard near Carthage, NY, there was a smallish
1279. 1920's fire engine that the owner said he would sell for $300.  The red paint and gold lettering were still
1280. shiny, the chrome bright, and it was replete with a bell and a chrome radiator
1281. cap with a glass thermometer.  The only
1282. thing it lacked was ladders.  Unfortunately,
1283. $300 was no more easily available than $3000. 
1284. Sometimes one has to be content to admire from afar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1285. <div class="MsoNormal">
1286. <br /></div>
1287. <div class="MsoNormal">
1288. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My old Dodge was reliable. 
1289. It ran as well at 15 below zero as it did at 85F.  Most problems were not difficult to resolve
1290. and it would run fine with the cheapest grade of gasoline available, which was
1291. sometimes as low as 74 octane.  The truck
1292. was meant for work, not for youthful bravado. 
1293. It wouldn’t "burn rubber"---except in reverse.  Never the less, it was all mine and just the
1294. ticket for fishing or rabbit hunting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1295. <div class="MsoNormal">
1296. <br /></div>
1297. <div class="MsoNormal">
1298. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The single most annoying problem was the gearshift.  The "three on the tree" had an
1299. "L"-shaped crank at the bottom that operated the shift linkage to the
1300. transmission.  The serrated hole in the
1301. crank, that secured it to the shift column, was stripped and it would slip, no
1302. matter how tightly I torqued the nut, leaving me stuck in, or out, of gear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1303. <div class="MsoNormal">
1304. <br /></div>
1305. <div class="MsoNormal">
1306. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having saved up some money, working as a stock clerk in the
1307. Camp Drum Post Exchange, I finally decided to have it repaired.  The nearest garage was in the village of Black
1308. River. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1309. <div class="MsoNormal">
1310. <br /></div>
1311. <div class="MsoNormal">
1312. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smelling of dust and petroleum products, with an exposed
1313. wood beamed ceiling, decorated with the usual "cheese cake" calendars
1314. put out by auto parts companies, and with well used tools hanging on the walls,
1315. it looked like a movie set for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.  My kind of place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1316. <div class="MsoNormal">
1317. <br /></div>
1318. <div class="MsoNormal">
1319. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the time, the owner/mechanic seemed old, though in
1320. hindsight he was probably in his 50's. 
1321. He was also friendly, helpful, and cheap.  After explaining that the part was no longer
1322. available, he said to give him a day and he would see what he could do.  When I returned, he explained that he had
1323. braised over the stripped out serrations in the crank and hand-filed new ones, charging
1324. me less than $25.  The repair worked
1325. fine.  Twenty years later, I benefitted
1326. from his explaining this field-expedient repair, using it to fix a similar
1327. problem on an arbor press.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1328. <div class="MsoNormal">
1329. <br /></div>
1330. <div class="MsoNormal">
1331. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvwnTdMqdmX59khZzY6TVzpYOvxtjQuGgEsQeLWCM35jJ3SqOq5qZXpEcLHsGXt8jVmzMGcbfi0lofCXuTTVDswGgDHlXnT1IwXxz8Mwth_2GyWHvc-L2JVPKuDqdYcERt_-ncqgMEv4wK/s1600/Packardcar.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvwnTdMqdmX59khZzY6TVzpYOvxtjQuGgEsQeLWCM35jJ3SqOq5qZXpEcLHsGXt8jVmzMGcbfi0lofCXuTTVDswGgDHlXnT1IwXxz8Mwth_2GyWHvc-L2JVPKuDqdYcERt_-ncqgMEv4wK/s1600/Packardcar.JPG" height="168" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While my Dodge, the mechanic, and the garage are all
1332. history, they are not the reason I recall the visit.  In the dim, back corner of that old garage,
1333. against the right wall, there was a hulking form covered by a dusty
1334. tarpaulin.  When I asked what was under
1335. the canvas, the mechanic took me over and removed the tarp.  It was a 1936 Packard sedan with a "straight
1336. eight."  The car was big, black,
1337. dusty, and had the ominous grace of a dreadnought.  That behemoth sparked my imagination.  I asked how much he wanted for it, laughable
1338. today since I had no  prospects of having
1339. funds and there is no way my father could have been talked into being involved
1340. in such a bit of whimsy.  The shop owner
1341. said it was not for sale and that it had a cracked block anyway.  The End.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1342. <div class="MsoNormal">
1343. <br /></div>
1344. <div class="MsoNormal">
1345. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, not quite the end. 
1346. From that time forward, I have had a nagging desire for a 1936 Packard
1347. sedan.  Marriage, children, jobs, age,
1348. and a singular lack of ability to focus on anything for any length of time,
1349. have all conspired to move me from "cool" and "fun"
1350. vehicles (in my eye, not necessarily that of others) to more reliable, and less
1351. interesting transportation.  I drive a
1352. Toyota Tundra, my spouse a Buick Enclave.  Both are good, solid transportation and more
1353. reliable than anything made in the 20th century.  Still, while our cars are good, I would not
1354. use "great" in any sense of the word. 
1355. That "great" Packard only exists when I daydream about what I
1356. would do, or could have done, if I were single and fancy free---about as likely
1357. as flying pigs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1358. <div class="MsoNormal">
1359. <br /></div>
1360. <div class="MsoNormal">
1361. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCo7xoGWcX3vGS2cUhqLBguT-66NQG2UtBZF3cgqHUnrpuebRVts6eSk08UjJlVQk1wFYATitO-zvTSMqWYNh3DhBQ9xapCtgL-djD3DoiNNOPmXLqpZhJK_w5yj4D5U-TztDaPtjXDyr/s1600/PackardT6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbCo7xoGWcX3vGS2cUhqLBguT-66NQG2UtBZF3cgqHUnrpuebRVts6eSk08UjJlVQk1wFYATitO-zvTSMqWYNh3DhBQ9xapCtgL-djD3DoiNNOPmXLqpZhJK_w5yj4D5U-TztDaPtjXDyr/s1600/PackardT6.JPG" height="148" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are two vintage cocktails, the <b><i>Twin Six</i></b> and the <b><i>Packard
1362. Twins</i></b> (yep, an engine not a pair of porn stars,) named for another
1363. masterpiece of Packard engineering, the "Twin Six," a V-12 engine
1364. which was to be later replaced in popularity by the “Single Eight”.  First produced for the 1916 model year, there
1365. were 24,000 vehicles with Twin Six Engines manufactured by 1920.  In that same year, Packard announced that
1366. they would double production of the Twin Six. 
1367. True to Robert Burns comment on the plans of mice and men, sales of the
1368. Twin plummeted between 1920 and 1924 with sales of about only 11,000 Twin Six
1369. equipped vehicles during that time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1371. <br /></div>
1372. <br />
1373. <div class="MsoNormal">
1374. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, let us raise a toast to Packard for giving us the stuff
1375. of dreams.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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1377. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1378. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
1379. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijjcmkIAtu2QvVKImax1d4IU2H5aYWclvxXFZrTtlAuy2Ru9qjSVlc4q18dDs0YTSd4n0Dix8nmrDCr9MrnO-VvdLaRcjVVEDvCY9pkZoDC9vUbWbxAJ_XBDRqrak7VogHOASbRq5T5hXl/s1600/PackardTwins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijjcmkIAtu2QvVKImax1d4IU2H5aYWclvxXFZrTtlAuy2Ru9qjSVlc4q18dDs0YTSd4n0Dix8nmrDCr9MrnO-VvdLaRcjVVEDvCY9pkZoDC9vUbWbxAJ_XBDRqrak7VogHOASbRq5T5hXl/s1600/PackardTwins.jpg" height="140" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
1380. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Fancy Drinks and How to Make Them</i>, 1935</td></tr>
1381. </tbody></table>
1382. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1383. <br /></div>
1384. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
1385. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqimZFqV27LP_lZG_Bt4PwPaqytU9Z-OQZTjc63zGJ056-OUcq3v_VmURF6hQXIQUaziPfxAu0XQWkfR48tX54A06Xku5g2H9TRE6nr0TAT6ojnGc3glWuSkpA26WJlljGWUQgaEzBWCf/s1600/Twin6Cocktail.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXqimZFqV27LP_lZG_Bt4PwPaqytU9Z-OQZTjc63zGJ056-OUcq3v_VmURF6hQXIQUaziPfxAu0XQWkfR48tX54A06Xku5g2H9TRE6nr0TAT6ojnGc3glWuSkpA26WJlljGWUQgaEzBWCf/s1600/Twin6Cocktail.JPG" height="178" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
1386. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Savoy Cocktail Book</i>, 1930</td></tr>
1387. </tbody></table>
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1391. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Have you ever thought about a random topic and wondered how
1392. far back you have had connections with, or memories related to said item?</span></div>
1393. <div class="MsoNormal">
1394. <br /></div>
1395. <div class="MsoNormal">
1396. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Dusting off the cobwebs in the back of my mind, I have
1397. memories regarding beer going back to about 10 years old.  No, I didn't drink it then. My father made an
1398. attempt at home brew.  My memory is of beer
1399. running on the laundry room floor after bottles, stacked in cases, seemed to
1400. have burst in sympathetic detonation. 
1401. That was the end of home brew in our house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1402. <div class="MsoNormal">
1403. <br /></div>
1404. <div class="MsoNormal">
1405. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Later, in the early 1960’s when I was 16, I bussed tables
1406. in a regimental beer hall in Camp Drum, New York (now Fort Drum.)  My father, HQ S-3,  arranged for my under-age hiring. The
1407. building was a long, low clap-board affair dating to the Second World War.  The beer hall was only open in the summer
1408. months, catering to the reservists coming to train at the camp's extensive
1409. ranges.  There was row after row of
1410. tables, usually piled high with beer cans. I would sweep the beer cans, and
1411. plastic cups, many of which still contained beer, into a large, plastic bag
1412. lined, steel trash can.  When the bag was
1413. full, I would take it from the can and throw it over-hand into a huge dumpster
1414. that was taller than I, resulting in my being constantly showered with stale
1415. beer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1416. <div class="MsoNormal">
1417. <br /></div>
1418. <div class="MsoNormal">
1419. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqf_LKd2dre1JDj7_GSlCPIG8jjV6RfO6Gtd2Q15kLoH-ZzQIPsPh0DOWHunHdophYbSRDU1UU8O5DS8TYk6845rWTC8KuO0B49WypQvb4WK0l_-JpCOAFOsngHDBjX1sqix3b_43Drt7C/s1600/Falstaff.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqf_LKd2dre1JDj7_GSlCPIG8jjV6RfO6Gtd2Q15kLoH-ZzQIPsPh0DOWHunHdophYbSRDU1UU8O5DS8TYk6845rWTC8KuO0B49WypQvb4WK0l_-JpCOAFOsngHDBjX1sqix3b_43Drt7C/s1600/Falstaff.JPG" width="200" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Two summers later, I worked as a truckers helper for a
1420. Falstaff distributor in Leavenworth, Kansas. 
1421. That job was pretty cushy. A goodly part of the workday was spent
1422. traveling to rural taverns and bars scattered over a wide area.  Falstaff is an old American beer that I doubt
1423. many people miss today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1424. <div class="MsoNormal">
1425. <br /></div>
1426. <div class="MsoNormal">
1427. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">As a college student, in El Paso, Texas, my friends and I
1428. would drink Carte Blanca and Dos Equis in Juarez, and have kegs of Bud or Coors
1429. at "beer busts" on the banks of the Rio Grande.  When we wanted something "classy" at
1430. our favorite pizza restaurant, the Village Inn, we would have a Lowenbraü. At
1431. that time, we also thought Lancers and Mateuse Rose were great wines, evidence
1432. our youthful tastes were very unsophisticated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1433. <div class="MsoNormal">
1434. <br /></div>
1435. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
1436. <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfE9PTLyRFC5Eltss1HNY1FlRzi3sN4lYaDbbkNk4GpBFJHVBc6YZVpVGtxtplIKYBGRfPuY4nSKBsXt5oTRXOBxRKVWs-NUYeZZkpP07tQk2rzIFHSrCSCYKF5VPzxRhTlwOnTg-E1Pb/s1600/AlFtRiley50.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvfE9PTLyRFC5Eltss1HNY1FlRzi3sN4lYaDbbkNk4GpBFJHVBc6YZVpVGtxtplIKYBGRfPuY4nSKBsXt5oTRXOBxRKVWs-NUYeZZkpP07tQk2rzIFHSrCSCYKF5VPzxRhTlwOnTg-E1Pb/s1600/AlFtRiley50.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
1437. <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Al, Ft. Riley Kansas 1951</td></tr>
1438. </tbody></table>
1439. <div class="MsoNormal">
1440. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">My father in law, Al, bought whatever was cheap at the package
1441. store on post. I shared many an Old Milwaukee or Meisterbrau with him until, in
1442. his 60's a meddling Veterans Administration physician convinced him that his
1443. daily beer was bad for him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1444. <div class="MsoNormal">
1445. <br /></div>
1446. <div class="MsoNormal">
1447. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
1448. <div class="MsoNormal">
1449. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Beer, in my past seemed to have been just plain beer.  Lagers, ales, pilsners, 3.2 "near
1450. beer", wheat beers, or stouts, good or bad it was just "beer
1451. flavored" beer.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1452. <div class="MsoNormal">
1453. <br /></div>
1454. <div class="MsoNormal">
1455. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Today, with the world getting smaller, we are
1456. blessed in having easy access to beers of all types, both foreign and  domestic. For this reason, my taste for
1457. "American lawn cutting beer," as I once heard a German braumeister
1458. describe it, has plummeted over the last 30 years.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1459. <div class="MsoNormal">
1460. <br /></div>
1461. <div class="MsoNormal">
1462. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzi298gt5zpbTlMgqsrpBQVgWFxniHdH81yF9xUG_3aRuhtJT0CYCQjAxLPCj3lGEjYeaYRjCTyLPZ_ZBCCF5v4KutOpdZICJePV46s8qLWSkulPB1sssHzGpEwH7ehcDwGIsYEbB2B0UA/s1600/Cornucopia.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzi298gt5zpbTlMgqsrpBQVgWFxniHdH81yF9xUG_3aRuhtJT0CYCQjAxLPCj3lGEjYeaYRjCTyLPZ_ZBCCF5v4KutOpdZICJePV46s8qLWSkulPB1sssHzGpEwH7ehcDwGIsYEbB2B0UA/s1600/Cornucopia.JPG" width="200" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Today, there is an interesting trend in American beer that
1463. would have probably failed in the not too distant past. It seems there is a
1464. rush to see what flavors can be added to beer. We have  lemon, lime, apricot, pumpkin, peach, clamato,
1465. chocolate, raspberry, grapefruit, and green chile beer—just to name a few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1466. <div class="MsoNormal">
1467. <br /></div>
1468. <div class="MsoNormal">
1469. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">If I may draw a conclusion based on the stores
1470. I frequent, this is an almost wholly American phenomena.  I have tried all of those mentioned once.  I did not find any that were good enough to buy a second time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1471. <div class="MsoNormal">
1472. <br /></div>
1473. <div class="MsoNormal">
1474. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Beer-based drinks have long existed in England and Germany.
1475. While there are a few seen in the US today, for example the Michelada and Red Beer
1476. (both of which are excellent if you make your own), one wonders if the trend
1477. here for fairly tasteless, pre-packaged flavored beers, is because people are
1478. too lazy to "roll their own". While a number of the beers produced
1479. are OK, there are several that are poor imitations of flavored sparkling
1480. water.  Thinking of big “B” now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1481. <div class="MsoNormal">
1482. <br /></div>
1483. <div class="MsoNormal">
1484. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">With the increasing popularity of "flavored"
1485. beers, I thought I would offer up some of my favorite beer-based recipes, or
1486. what the Germans call “<i>biermischungen</i>.”  Taking
1487. time to make your beverage is a sure way to increase your pleasure as you savor
1488. your efforts. Making your own also let's you titrate the mix to your own
1489. taste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1490. <div class="MsoNormal">
1491. <br /></div>
1492. <div class="MsoNormal">
1493. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXMe61erfW-stWFNih3XSp56GXvyJgr7Zd6jLvoJTOjsMCujRzwlmQ20wIZsF66sXdJz8OZJyIDc-ENvDJaU6vmf_tYsstVDMqwoecvFJwa_d-qRvoejvB-ovSPRiH5xmR3JnjXkcFYgv/s1600/Lexi.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXMe61erfW-stWFNih3XSp56GXvyJgr7Zd6jLvoJTOjsMCujRzwlmQ20wIZsF66sXdJz8OZJyIDc-ENvDJaU6vmf_tYsstVDMqwoecvFJwa_d-qRvoejvB-ovSPRiH5xmR3JnjXkcFYgv/s1600/Lexi.jpg" width="200" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">First, the <i>Dog's Nose</i>,
1494.  is simply a glass of ale with a dash of
1495. gin.  This drink dates to the early 1800’s.
1496. According to various texts, it was favored by British sailors and coachmen. This
1497. is also an easy drink to enjoy at your favorite watering hole.  I order a glass of ale with a shot of gin on
1498. the side and build it myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1499. <div class="MsoNormal">
1500. <br /></div>
1501. <div class="MsoNormal">
1502. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOBNkSoNtQu0SBRh6QkdYH5gslzp0SbYe6URTWvibvjnK8niKf2W1uuNTOb61BEoOesfBFAWeOHyhbelQzzgRpIPiYjtKZrM5euArugdqYOpx64enmeqqF3or_DqViB79LTZ5e45TJ2CNi/s1600/punting.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOBNkSoNtQu0SBRh6QkdYH5gslzp0SbYe6URTWvibvjnK8niKf2W1uuNTOb61BEoOesfBFAWeOHyhbelQzzgRpIPiYjtKZrM5euArugdqYOpx64enmeqqF3or_DqViB79LTZ5e45TJ2CNi/s1600/punting.JPG" width="200" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><i>Shandygaff</i>, another English potable is 1/2 ale or lager and 1/2 ginger beer or ginger ale.  A recipe from the 1880’s specifies “One pint
1503. of bitter beer, and a bottle of old fashioned ginger beer mixed together and
1504. only imbibed on the hottest summer days after rowing.” A nice, light
1505. summer cooler.  It dates as far back as
1506. the 1600’s.  Served in venues as
1507. dissimilar as inns and tea gardens, it was often paired with cheese and
1508. biscuit and considered a refreshing drink for walkers and bicyclists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1510. <br /></div>
1511. <div class="MsoNormal">
1512. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-iBtUVpvEhYEAhcHiAJm5nNPAxaoKLtnwDXPBntL5rItpvBblt7JXZ9aaSdeosvEhHCpEozVs632u8cldbTCmv5S9SjAcfsDREjZoHyKYN1XPVmW8OBjc8hNSW16F9S9j3IjFU-KtIE5/s1600/Mule.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-iBtUVpvEhYEAhcHiAJm5nNPAxaoKLtnwDXPBntL5rItpvBblt7JXZ9aaSdeosvEhHCpEozVs632u8cldbTCmv5S9SjAcfsDREjZoHyKYN1XPVmW8OBjc8hNSW16F9S9j3IjFU-KtIE5/s1600/Mule.JPG" width="135" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">The <i>Maulesel</i>
1513. (Mule) is Germany's answer to the <i>Dog's
1514. Nose</i>. Like the others listed here, it is a quick recipe. Add about 1 oz gin
1515. and 1 oz. lemon juice (juice of 1/2 a lemon) to a beer glass and fill with
1516. beer. I have no idea how old this is, but it is great with bratwurst and sauerkraut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1519. <div class="MsoNormal">
1520. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif"></span></div>
1521. <div class="MsoNormal">
1522. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpSKmVeY3P-iUPPShTUKkxEz9AGHjz3PqD18nVmEVBWpxorzBxYCNGB2g79aHlOPZvBkSzgPZu6gr7hywKE_Dlku8DfqgQMor3H6jyevXKn1wEjqwNlD2J3ahu2X5DD40uvdDFttU7V6m9/s1600/raspberry.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpSKmVeY3P-iUPPShTUKkxEz9AGHjz3PqD18nVmEVBWpxorzBxYCNGB2g79aHlOPZvBkSzgPZu6gr7hywKE_Dlku8DfqgQMor3H6jyevXKn1wEjqwNlD2J3ahu2X5DD40uvdDFttU7V6m9/s1600/raspberry.JPG" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">A </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Berlinerweisse</i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">
1523. is a “biermichunge” that is definitely on the fruity side.  Add about 1 oz. raspberry syrup to a beer
1524. glass and fill with hefeweizen. I prefer Monin raspberry syrup.  If you use Steinhager instead of raspberry
1525. syrup, you have a Berlinerweisse mit Strippe (with stripper.)  If  beer
1526. with fruit overtones appeals to you, try a bit of any of the Monin syrups, but
1527. go lightly.  You will get some
1528. interesting results.  If you do not want
1529. to buy, or use, an expensive German hefewiesen, you can substitute Blue Moon
1530. with decent results.</span></div>
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1532. <br /></div>
1533. <div class="MsoNormal">
1534. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsbJ2_tTJdSwjlkbyAJdgqXweK7iX827BLyM2_eoi2MZD0-SX1pNndegsLWCgAjsktM2zsW2JVaI_dKJtj8NxhsCnDV7P6iPnsZBLRjZp2WGC8fRXfsMfp-KecCKcxHnT-y8AW51X5o8P6/s1600/Bicyclist.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsbJ2_tTJdSwjlkbyAJdgqXweK7iX827BLyM2_eoi2MZD0-SX1pNndegsLWCgAjsktM2zsW2JVaI_dKJtj8NxhsCnDV7P6iPnsZBLRjZp2WGC8fRXfsMfp-KecCKcxHnT-y8AW51X5o8P6/s1600/Bicyclist.JPG" width="200" /></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">The <i>Radler</i>
1535. (Bicyclist) seems to be a 1950’s or 60’s innovation.  One story says that  a group of bicyclists stopped at a gasthaus
1536. and the owner, not having enough beer, mixed it with lemonade.  The <i>Radler</i>
1537. is 50/50 mix of beer and lemonade. Best with a marzenbier or lager. I use San
1538. Pelligrino Limonata or Aranciata, as the lemonade, since they are not too sweet
1539. and lend a nice citrus tang.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1542. <br />
1543. <div class="MsoNormal">
1544. <span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “All life is an experiment.  The more experiments you make the better.”  In addition to buying some of the “flavored” concoctions
1545. coming from the brewers, try your own. You might be surprised.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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1547. </div>
1548. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1549. </div>
1550. <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
1551. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1552. <div style="text-align: left;">
1553. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0q2a-DmAuTdSPlhgkiyNJh2MBoc-W26qhPHUP2FLp68pCl5fHGd_wxbffmtEN9uIaQrl1u4wvrVi7jtL2fpFN_YmGQ0rd3pvT_ewmU2Nuc_9BSMgPgjpyCuEco0kf0CutYRroam5-KRI0/s1600/Triestepcard.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0q2a-DmAuTdSPlhgkiyNJh2MBoc-W26qhPHUP2FLp68pCl5fHGd_wxbffmtEN9uIaQrl1u4wvrVi7jtL2fpFN_YmGQ0rd3pvT_ewmU2Nuc_9BSMgPgjpyCuEco0kf0CutYRroam5-KRI0/s1600/Triestepcard.JPG" height="141" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two
1554. years ago, several members of my family had the opportunity to return to Italy,
1555. visit family, and do the obligatory tourist rounds.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I asked my brother George to see if he could
1556. find me a vintage, or any, Italian bar book. After much searching, and asking
1557. around, he reported that he had been told there were none and that, in Italy,
1558. drinks were not measured.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neither
1559. sounded likely.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To make any drink, as in
1560. preparing food, a basic recipe is needed.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 
1561. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ingredients need to be added in appropriate amounts and mixed in an
1562. appropriate manner. While a skilled bartender may not use an actual measuring
1563. device, he/she can make an accurate pour through practice.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since mankind (and womankind) have a
1564. compulsion to chronicle any topic of interest, from ardvaarks to zydeco, where were
1565. those elusive Italian mixology texts?</span></div>
1566. <div class="MsoNormal">
1567. <br /></div>
1568. <div class="MsoNormal">
1569. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being
1570. told there were none, like being told something cannot be done (or shouldn’t be
1571. done), is a challenge too good to pass on. 
1572. I set out to find a trophy for my collection and, in twenty-four hours, there
1573. were two being shipped from Italy despite outrageous shipping charges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1574. <div class="MsoNormal">
1575. <br /></div>
1576. <div class="MsoNormal">
1577. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those
1578. of you who grew up post-internet do not fully realize how easy life has become.
1579. Back in the 60's, when I was studying geology, 
1580. doing research meant spending endless hours in a dull  library, without coffee or beer, poring over
1581. index card files.  Then, with a fistful
1582. of notes,  roaming the stacks looking for
1583. texts that were often not there, or did not have the hoped for information.  After exhausting the local university library,
1584. you would travel to another seeking the elusive grains of gold for your
1585. research paper. Today, you can sit with your electronic device of choice, in
1586. your skivvies with a cup of joe, browse the contents of libraries around the
1587. world, then request the titles at your local library. Damn young whipper-snappers
1588. just don't know when they have it good!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1589. <div class="MsoNormal">
1590. <br /></div>
1591. <div class="MsoNormal">
1592. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGmche8XiGGc3phhNqzwpzgyvW3SxTObBkst29x4HFA-f48tqAXM7jnvrUq6TJaQTOpzmSwgc-cFqYSKYdhoUVhJ4-u7Ed4aMPHUSc7gO99unrayCbuDg9pSHefhmMRcKaFamMCy4dWON/s1600/TragosMagicos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRGmche8XiGGc3phhNqzwpzgyvW3SxTObBkst29x4HFA-f48tqAXM7jnvrUq6TJaQTOpzmSwgc-cFqYSKYdhoUVhJ4-u7Ed4aMPHUSc7gO99unrayCbuDg9pSHefhmMRcKaFamMCy4dWON/s1600/TragosMagicos.jpg" height="200" width="142" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trying
1593. the easy way first, searching eBay, over my morning coffee, was a bust.   There were several rather dull looking Italian
1594. pieces from the 1980's or newer, nothing I felt worth the effort to order or work
1595. with.  Not all was lost though.  I found a bargain priced, odd little 70’s drink
1596. book from Venezuela entitled <i>Tragos
1597. Magicos</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1598. <div class="MsoNormal">
1599. <br /></div>
1600. <div class="MsoNormal">
1601. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deciding
1602. the bigger gun of a serious resource was in order, I went to my favorite online
1603. used bookseller, AbeBooks, and the hunt was on. 
1604. Hunting a book online when you do not have a title, author or publisher,
1605. is a matter of utilizing key words.  What
1606. key words would you use in searching for a mixology text in a foreign language?
1607. Think about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1608. <div class="MsoNormal">
1609. <br /></div>
1610. <div class="MsoNormal">
1611. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I once worked with a physician who was an excellent
1612. diagnostician.  Like <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1613. <div class="MsoNormal">
1614. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr.
1615. House of TV fame, he could diagnose unusual illnesses with minimal information,
1616. later to be proven correct in testing. A favorite saying of his was
1617. "Common things are common."  In
1618. other words, you need to rule out the ordinary before you move to the
1619. exotic.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1620. <div class="MsoNormal">
1621. <br /></div>
1622. <div class="MsoNormal">
1623. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj0Xc3pdDHWEJfOaOhSToAFWzOkVuJFe5zKwnPdLsEulv_wolNAyrNNg3XCHTK_uT_Znjj6y4XNnmDlkBbVkSYvpDU-gCQIX1Ser1Ew00-F323S01uiNxo06HmyBZCurnWERFsEd0in1xb/s1600/icocktail.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj0Xc3pdDHWEJfOaOhSToAFWzOkVuJFe5zKwnPdLsEulv_wolNAyrNNg3XCHTK_uT_Znjj6y4XNnmDlkBbVkSYvpDU-gCQIX1Ser1Ew00-F323S01uiNxo06HmyBZCurnWERFsEd0in1xb/s1600/icocktail.JPG" height="320" width="159" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While
1624. there are many words related to imbibing, sometimes the obvious are the best.
1625. The word I use is "cocktail" in its various translations.  Though the term limits you to books from the
1626. late 1800's forward and will totally miss specialty books dedicated to punches or
1627. other esoterica (for example, the German text <i>Bowlen und Punche</i>), it is a great starting point.  The down-side to key word searches is that
1628. you may end up with hundreds of titles to peruse, many of which are totally
1629. unrelated to what you seek.  Italian
1630. drink books of quality do seem to be as scarce as hens teeth.  I successfully located two<i>, i cocktails</i> and <i>Il Barman e
1631. i Suoi Cocktails</i>. Both are well worth having and the former is todays topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1632. <div class="MsoNormal">
1633. <br /></div>
1634. <div class="MsoNormal">
1635. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When
1636. it comes to enjoyable books, some are a pleasure to read, others a pleasure to
1637. look at.  <i>i cocktails</i> is a blend of both. 
1638. Written by Luigi Veronelli, published in 1963, <i>i cocktails </i>is a hefty 365 pages including the index. The recipes
1639. include the old, as the Bee's Knees, and the obscure like the Zakusky and
1640. Monachino.  Perusing the index of
1641. recipes, one is led to believe that <i>i
1642. cocktail</i> is an amalgam of drinks from around the world. If you enjoy gin as
1643. I do, there are over 200 recipes calling for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1645. <br /></div>
1646. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1647. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh24m2eXItJixBlRMDq8NdSVINHoGoVqt1siteKxIXIi3Vvckh5H8oHM85kSQMYWNhumiw5JxjAjYFlt8hCCuIlCPDnXQ1fGZS-fm4tnWklpYjsAlwf2qddN2DrZAYjKuZBOvaJHEkIT93l/s1600/label2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh24m2eXItJixBlRMDq8NdSVINHoGoVqt1siteKxIXIi3Vvckh5H8oHM85kSQMYWNhumiw5JxjAjYFlt8hCCuIlCPDnXQ1fGZS-fm4tnWklpYjsAlwf2qddN2DrZAYjKuZBOvaJHEkIT93l/s1600/label2.jpg" height="200" width="116" /></a></div>
1648. <div class="MsoNormal">
1649. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHMxxjTRFNhbMislueM1dEsSUxhT2oHmiwYk77cQ5JrOcmVIpVaaxhUAdLangXjaHwuwkPlW_FSPTx1ntJruOX_uWyBY5WvotYa0bwQykcq09L4IJzmSnJuo2XPefTi_iz2mwSPEGgKmZ_/s1600/label1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHMxxjTRFNhbMislueM1dEsSUxhT2oHmiwYk77cQ5JrOcmVIpVaaxhUAdLangXjaHwuwkPlW_FSPTx1ntJruOX_uWyBY5WvotYa0bwQykcq09L4IJzmSnJuo2XPefTi_iz2mwSPEGgKmZ_/s1600/label1.jpeg" height="200" width="97" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For
1650. the visual individual, the book is a cornucopia of liqour labels. These labels
1651. are not the usual color photos as found in so many publications. In <i>i cocktails</i> there is page after page of
1652. heavy paper with individual labels neatly mounted, usually two to the
1653. page.  The lables represent products from
1654. around the world.  Very Old Fitzgerald -
1655. Barrelled in 1955 bottled in 1963, Cederlund Schwedenpunsch, Drioli Marachino
1656. and Tequila Sauza are but a few.  I am
1657. inclined to think the labels genuine since the Sauza label has printing on the
1658. back that would only be seen from the opposite side of the bottle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1659. <div class="MsoNormal">
1660. <br /></div>
1661. <div class="MsoNormal">
1662. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
1663. author uses  a pictorial key with each
1664. recipe that indicates the number of servings (usually two), the type of  glass in which to serve, how to mix (mixing
1665. glass or shaker), and if the drink is short, long, or hot.  </span></div>
1666. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1667. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ_vnvjZbMhvn7dIUesRZc9byEP3f7LWUg9VCPk2rK1uKl2hf-g1wKq4-m5Ub87bJZNeaVwvLIFWukU4IUHx3IkDylK26ydTQKuhs54m6I8fDfkxTzonKCQpcBa6DBS5y2gsOziR-Ruud2/s1600/GinToplabel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ_vnvjZbMhvn7dIUesRZc9byEP3f7LWUg9VCPk2rK1uKl2hf-g1wKq4-m5Ub87bJZNeaVwvLIFWukU4IUHx3IkDylK26ydTQKuhs54m6I8fDfkxTzonKCQpcBa6DBS5y2gsOziR-Ruud2/s1600/GinToplabel.jpg" height="60" width="320" /></a></div>
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1669. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1670. <div class="MsoNormal">
1671. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Units of</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 
1672. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">measure are always a challenge to translate.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sure, a gocce (drop) in Italy, is susceptible
1673. to the same laws of physics as a</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">drop in
1674. the New Mexico desert, but when we get to bicchiere and bicchierino, glass and
1675. small glass, we have work to do.</span></div>
1676. <div class="MsoNormal">
1677. <br /></div>
1678. <div class="MsoNormal">
1679. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a
1680. recipe where all the units of measure for liquor are identical, all bicchiere
1681. or all bicchierino, the recipe is easily converted into a ratio.  When we combine dis-similar units, we need to
1682. know what each unit’s volume is. The chart below will help in translating
1683. volumes of measure in Italian cocktail books. Unfortunately, Italian measures
1684. seem to have as many differences in definition as Italy has had governments
1685. since World War II, so the selection shown is the product of multiple sources.</span></div>
1686. <div class="MsoNormal">
1687. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1688. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1689. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigudbnPZjKKx2KqzwD31QHYTGsFpI4q1d13GhIaRcDC9_nUyR8uBgDqwWc_9iV-M5SjCSRD9LIczT6yH26DuweJVkBMmJg7me6RwAKLn1K1zFZ132X8PR3q98XSZFd1Ds_4B4aQsRRoo8P/s1600/Italymisure.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigudbnPZjKKx2KqzwD31QHYTGsFpI4q1d13GhIaRcDC9_nUyR8uBgDqwWc_9iV-M5SjCSRD9LIczT6yH26DuweJVkBMmJg7me6RwAKLn1K1zFZ132X8PR3q98XSZFd1Ds_4B4aQsRRoo8P/s1600/Italymisure.JPG" height="193" width="400" /></a></div>
1690. <div class="MsoNormal">
1691. <br /></div>
1692. <div class="MsoNormal">
1693. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having
1694. completed the laborious task of converting measures, we may now attempt the
1695. pleasurable task of  mixing a unique
1696. drink from an allegedly non-existent book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1697. <div class="MsoNormal">
1698. <br /></div>
1699. <div class="MsoNormal">
1700. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being
1701. an enthusiast of both gin and Campari, I was pleased to find yet another  cocktail using both. If you enjoy an
1702. occasional Americano or Negroni, you will probably enjoy the "Gin On
1703. Top" cocktail.  Served in a chilled
1704. cocktail glass it is an excellent aperitif.  Having the peculiar moniker of "Gin On
1705. Top" would lead you to believe it is a layered drink, but this is not
1706. so.  It is a conventionally prepared,
1707. stirred not shaken, cocktail.  In real
1708. life, I prefer shaken cocktails as I like mine colder  than the proverbial witches' breast in a
1709. brass brassiere.  The introduction of air
1710. causing a cloudy  drink, and hence
1711. "bruising" it, is of little importance to me. For me, there is no
1712. discernible difference in taste. Neanderthal that I am, I also do not raise my
1713. pinkie when I drink tea, or other beverages,  unlike a well-bred  Canadian I once worked with in Etobicoke (who
1714. disliked me for being "loud", and I him for being prissy) -- but that
1715. is another story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1717. <br /></div>
1718. <div class="MsoNormal">
1719. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without
1720. further adieu, here is the Gin On Top:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1721. <div class="MsoNormal">
1722. <br /></div>
1723. <div class="MsoNormal">
1724. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This
1725. drink is distinctly on the bitter side. I find it best served with cheeses,
1726. crackers, or other hors d ovres  of your
1727. choosing. This recipe for two, would work well in three smaller, old school
1728. cocktail glasses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1730. <br /></div>
1731. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1732. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtEzc9d-YT9XNfcmWgVP7FnM-nwJ01wkuk_SoDQriHs5vYNkxV5IRd8_Yzwq439N-mnF5aTqvghyi42t_9XTS5HY38MbtOfltMXzkwrdDg-FwKGH7uJceRgAyBkRd4lZb7lAdUGU0qWHd/s1600/GinOnTop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtEzc9d-YT9XNfcmWgVP7FnM-nwJ01wkuk_SoDQriHs5vYNkxV5IRd8_Yzwq439N-mnF5aTqvghyi42t_9XTS5HY38MbtOfltMXzkwrdDg-FwKGH7uJceRgAyBkRd4lZb7lAdUGU0qWHd/s1600/GinOnTop.jpg" height="181" width="200" /></a></div>
1733. <div class="MsoNormal">
1734. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Gin On Top</i></b> (for two)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1735. <div class="MsoNormal">
1736. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">150 ml
1737. dry gin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1738. <div class="MsoNormal">
1739. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">25 ml
1740. Campari<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1741. <div class="MsoNormal">
1742. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">25 ml
1743. lemon juice (1/2 lemon) filtered to remove pulp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1744. <div class="MsoNormal">
1745. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 wild
1746. strawberries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1747. <div class="MsoNormal">
1748. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ice
1749. cubes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1750. <div class="MsoNormal">
1751. <br /></div>
1752. <div class="MsoNormal">
1753. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Place
1754. ice in mixing glass. Pour in the lemon juice, dry gin and Campari. Stir briskly
1755. with bar spoon, leave one or two seconds, then stir again slowly. Serve
1756. immediately in chilled cocktail glass garnished with a wild strawberry (in the New Mexico desert, you will get powerful thirsty looking for a wild strawberry)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1763. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was lying in bed at 0300 wondering what my
1764. next blog would be.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">  </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have several
1765. topics in mind, but none fully developed. When fighting insomnia, my mind often
1766. drifts back to past careers, usually nursing. This free thought in the wee
1767. hours led to today's blog on taste and potables.</span></div>
1768. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1769. <br /></div>
1770. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1771. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">When
1772. thinking of "nursing" and "drink," simultaneously, the
1773. obvious link is abuse of alcohol rather than the occasional cocktail or glass
1774. of wine.  Truly, I can tell horror
1775. stories about the excessive intake of intoxicants but preferring to preach
1776. moderation in all things, today's blog is less about drink, than taste.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1777. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1778. <br /></div>
1779. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1780. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNTdSpta8OMLhpNUoBsuN1XOncNeuzkFCqMyVsb0sbIBhfVbVmduT0q3CHNIDJd9BJ91bQ1lukxSTH2WNvG3wleWIuZcuzpX4PofzxaP6FdN3o6NdhSTOXpvcFI3pm5cGSI_DjSKhKcDFo/s1600/DrinkMe.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNTdSpta8OMLhpNUoBsuN1XOncNeuzkFCqMyVsb0sbIBhfVbVmduT0q3CHNIDJd9BJ91bQ1lukxSTH2WNvG3wleWIuZcuzpX4PofzxaP6FdN3o6NdhSTOXpvcFI3pm5cGSI_DjSKhKcDFo/s1600/DrinkMe.JPG" height="320" width="226" /></a></div>
1781. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1782. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As an RN on
1783. a  pediatrics floor, I adopted the
1784. practice of tasting the oral medications that I administered to my patients.
1785. This helped me anticipate problems and come up with creative ways to mask the
1786. taste of most, but not all, unpleasant drugs. 
1787. The worst, and least palatable, was prednisolone liquid. It taints everything that you put it in or
1788. on, leaving you with a greater volume of yuck for the patient to deal with. In
1789. one study, close to 20% of the kids taking it vomited; not from
1790. allergy, or adverse reaction, but rather from perceived nastiness of taste and
1791. mouth-feel. I can vouch for this from personal experience and, I would like to
1792. state for the record, that there is a world of difference between having a
1793. child upchuck on you, and having an adult who has been intemperate do so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1794. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1795. <br /></div>
1796. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1797. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As a side
1798. note, there are many medical studies in the literature that do relative taste
1799. comparisons of drugs within a class, many of which are practically
1800. interchangeable, however physicians seldom seem to read those articles and have
1801. an instinctive knack for selecting medications most foul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1802. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1803. <br /></div>
1804. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1805. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">When it
1806. comes to drink, whether we are talking soft drinks, beer, wine, small batch
1807. gin, single malt scotch, or mixed drinks, taste is an interesting topic. We
1808. enjoy sharing descriptions, both verbal and photographic, of savory repasts, of
1809. tasty drinks and memorable spirits. There are many sites like TripAdvisor that
1810. let us share on a grand scale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1811. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1812. <br /></div>
1813. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1814. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As with
1815. religion, many people espouse their personal taste as the only true taste and
1816. display a marked superiority and intolerance for others whose taste is
1817. different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1818. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1819. <br /></div>
1820. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1821. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Hard-core
1822. scotch worshippers are a good example, with all their talk of single malts, whether
1823. taken neat or with a splash of water. 
1824. Personally, while I think Laphroaig Cairdeas is about as good a scotch
1825. as any I have tasted, I prefer scotch in mixed drinks – Oh heresy of
1826. heresies!  I would rather have a "Mamie
1827. Taylor" or a "Cameron's Kick Cocktail" than a pour of any fine scotch. As an added
1828. incentive, any scotch-based mixed drink does as well using a cheap scotch like
1829. Clan McGregor as it does with its pricey upscale cousins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1830. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1831. <br /></div>
1832. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1833. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Recently,
1834. seeking new "old" drinks to try, I have made several that  range from "I don't care for this"
1835. to "This is pretty awful" and would like to share one from each end
1836. of the spectrum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1837. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1838. <br /></div>
1839. <div class="MsoNormal">
1840. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcD-Ipy4kzDV6MXF5Sujdzr8qH0G155IxuKW-vHXcyTswobdMpO0RZ-ZIStocAwWf7Or2eGKoN00RzRjJEz3azeE17Fp-bqoQYsQqPKio-tfMZbSOO1u-cwrEolmpPlu9bQIm_bcQD3LVV/s1600/willie.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcD-Ipy4kzDV6MXF5Sujdzr8qH0G155IxuKW-vHXcyTswobdMpO0RZ-ZIStocAwWf7Or2eGKoN00RzRjJEz3azeE17Fp-bqoQYsQqPKio-tfMZbSOO1u-cwrEolmpPlu9bQIm_bcQD3LVV/s1600/willie.jpeg" height="320" width="225" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></div>
1841. <div style="text-align: left;">
1842. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first,
1843. an “I don’t care for this,” is from a classic text, </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Flowing Bowl - What and When to Drink,</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> by Willie
1844. Schmidt. Published in 1892, it is a great collection of recipes as served in the "Gay 90's"
1845. (a moniker originating when gay still meant light-hearted, not an orientation).
1846. While I found most recipes in the book decent or better, the "Gin Puff" is one
1847. to have had for the sake of having. 
1848. Having had two, it is hard to imagine desiring a third. The first was
1849. made using small batch Hendrick's, a dry gin, the second with Hayman's Old
1850. Tom.  The Old Tom preparation was
1851. slightly better but fell a long ways from good. </span></div>
1852. <o:p></o:p><br />
1853. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1854. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
1855. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
1856. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9W7hbEZ_1sMZioDp3Vy-ybwhW-pGE1uoFZ4P3jBCoi3tN4XXUKA3hc_ZXd6vejYOOID7CCNARAEvkdFyl00CIv78tg4DcYRDAHZowe8MckQzRRfaugel_TYDLGfaqZaTT-pP96Z3Hfraf/s1600/Gin+Puff.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9W7hbEZ_1sMZioDp3Vy-ybwhW-pGE1uoFZ4P3jBCoi3tN4XXUKA3hc_ZXd6vejYOOID7CCNARAEvkdFyl00CIv78tg4DcYRDAHZowe8MckQzRRfaugel_TYDLGfaqZaTT-pP96Z3Hfraf/s1600/Gin+Puff.jpeg" height="65" width="400" /></a></div>
1857. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1858. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
1859. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1860. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My best
1861. guess is that the Gin Puff was one of those "hair of the dog"
1862. concoctions designed to clear a “morning after” fog, rather than a drink to be
1863. had while the senses are still acute.</span></div>
1864. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1865. <br /></div>
1866. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1867. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
1868. all-time winner of the "drink so bad you wouldn't serve it to your
1869. mother-in-law" award has to be the "St. Barbara."  Saint Barbara is the patron saint of almost all
1870. occupations involving fire or explosives. 
1871. While it appears in one of my German cocktail books from the early
1872. 1900's, the choice of ingredients would suggest that this drink is English in origin, containing scotch, absinthe and Worcestershire in equal parts. One may surmise that the St. Barbara may have been
1873. the regimental toast of the Queens Own Cannon-Cockers or the "dare you to drink this" initiation
1874. beverage for the Grand Order of Powder Monkeys.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1875. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1876. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
1877. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1878. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggJJ36903IlBTLECl__5_OeMFTnvFaV5BaKJBmGlZ3OHWpFu5AnBYeCMsGd1jjN44d1NtBeUngdvtEoH7C_Q1cbXlTDsC0cO3g0vnAr0YQ1O-OLaI3_N1nuzWG3WA0FuJumHN15aGSDwzj/s1600/stBarb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggJJ36903IlBTLECl__5_OeMFTnvFaV5BaKJBmGlZ3OHWpFu5AnBYeCMsGd1jjN44d1NtBeUngdvtEoH7C_Q1cbXlTDsC0cO3g0vnAr0YQ1O-OLaI3_N1nuzWG3WA0FuJumHN15aGSDwzj/s1600/stBarb.jpg" height="320" width="173" /></a></div>
1879. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1880. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One rule of
1881. making mixed drinks is to only use quality ingredients. To every rule there is
1882. an exception and the St. Barbara is one. Using quality ingredients is
1883. pointless. Being out of Clan McGregor scotch, I substituted 12 year
1884. Glenlivet.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That did not help. The
1885. concoction tastes like anise flavored Worcestershire.</span></div>
1886. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1887. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
1888. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1889. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paired with a nice meat loaf, or lamb and
1890. leek pie at your favorite English pub, the St. Barbara might work in tiny sips with a
1891. mouthful of food. I have no desire to test it further.</span></div>
1892. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1893. <br /></div>
1894. <br />
1895. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
1896. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Despite the
1897. number of questionable liquids that I have consumed (including gasoline while
1898. siphoning), or mixed, including those above, I have yet to find any as vile in
1899. taste as that prednisolone of bygone days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1901. <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
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1903. <br /></div>
1904. <div style="text-align: center;">
1905. </div>
1906. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1907. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">In my last blog, I mentioned a
1908. book by H.i. Williams, <i>3 Bottle Bar.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
1909. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1910. <br /></div>
1911. <div class="NoList1">
1912. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc7nPp-ZDJyfC8UKxG5-nVHFhnToWgDXyB77XrvVKlDnPnQXqh1ozs-AKGZItRRZqwXnb0hE8q6AuzaDM86vfxPreTqqKxYMZjZQoo9bP8CwJbOyg82ViK269MytXViZDJPr3bHr9q_T-s/s1600/3Bottle.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc7nPp-ZDJyfC8UKxG5-nVHFhnToWgDXyB77XrvVKlDnPnQXqh1ozs-AKGZItRRZqwXnb0hE8q6AuzaDM86vfxPreTqqKxYMZjZQoo9bP8CwJbOyg82ViK269MytXViZDJPr3bHr9q_T-s/s1600/3Bottle.jpg" width="236" /></a><span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif""></span></div>
1913. <div style="text-align: left;">
1914. <span face="'Lucida Sans', sans-serif">Let me
1915. begin by saying that I have always had a fascination with oddities in names -
1916. quirks in the spelling, why people have the names they have, or where names
1917. originated.</span></div>
1918. <o:p></o:p><br />
1919. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1920. <br /></div>
1921. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1922. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">Thirty
1923. years ago, I met a woman, now long passed, named Voltarine. She spelled her
1924. name as I have written it.  Not having
1925. encountered that name previously, I asked her if the name had a family
1926. history.  Those of you well read, and interested
1927. in feminist studies, are probably thinking “She must have been named after
1928. Voltairine de Cleyre, feminist writer and orator, and her parents misspelled
1929. her name.”  Not so.  Voltarine explained that her parents were
1930. enthusiasts of Voltaire and thought that Voltarine would be the feminine derivative
1931. of his name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1932. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1933. <br /></div>
1934. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1935. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">I am
1936. terrible with names, even those of people I know well.  At the store a few weeks ago I ran into a
1937. nurse that I had recently worked with for five years. I repeatedly called her “Kathy”
1938. (the name of an RN I hadn’t worked with in 15 years) instead of Marianne. She
1939. did not correct me and it didn’t dawn on me until I had gotten home. I still
1940. remember Voltarine Williams’ full name, because of her little story, though we
1941. met but twice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1942. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1943. <br /></div>
1944. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1945. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">On
1946. another occasion, when employed as lead nurse in a pediatric clinic, I was
1947. attending to a mother whose sons were named Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo
1948. and Raphael. When I asked if she liked Italian art, she gave me a puzzled
1949. look.  I then explained that I was
1950. curious about the names of her sons.  As
1951. you have probably guessed, she had named them after the Ninja Turtles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1952. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1953. <br /></div>
1954. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
1955. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzsZir_hXfMINcARNnVwi1uzLUbQDKhHfNbz97tGlniF6xEuGowI_rlEg_xddvND8U35sYCN_lVkqCnDh9kQsRdFzRC-azpJ4jN0TfF-uA3ufEz4Ski7Y4DVnVhyRzxi_0rwr9OWbeG9ju/s1600/ChasRN.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzsZir_hXfMINcARNnVwi1uzLUbQDKhHfNbz97tGlniF6xEuGowI_rlEg_xddvND8U35sYCN_lVkqCnDh9kQsRdFzRC-azpJ4jN0TfF-uA3ufEz4Ski7Y4DVnVhyRzxi_0rwr9OWbeG9ju/s1600/ChasRN.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
1956. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1957. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">In the hospital, and clinics,
1958. where a large part of the patient population spoke only Spanish, I made my name
1959. a private pun.  Some Spanish speakers
1960. have difficulty with the name “Charles.” 
1961. Knowing this, and since I conversed with these patients in passable
1962. medical Spanish, I would introduce myself as Carlos Madera – a literal translation
1963. of my given name.  For a time, it caused
1964. some confusion among co-workers when I was asked for by that name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1965. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1966. <br /></div>
1967. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1968. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">Back to
1969. the book and the name of interest.  The
1970. first thing I noticed about <i>3 Bottle Bar</i>
1971. was the curious spelling of the authors name on the fly leaf.  Initials capital “H.” lower case “i.” Surely
1972. there had to be a story.  I was correct.  H.i. Williams was born Harney Isham Williams
1973. in Ladoga, Indiana, 1886.  In his youth,
1974. his friends took to calling him “Hi.” 
1975. This name stuck and he used it throughout his life in both a personal,
1976. and professional, capacity.  “Hi” is
1977. certainly an easier handle to remember than “Harney” or “Isham” and conveys a
1978. friendly nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1979. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1980. <br /></div>
1981. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1982. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">His book,
1983. <i>3 Bottle Bar - Hospitality Poured From 3
1984. Bottles, </i>published in 1943, is a rather thin book on mixology. A mere 64
1985. pages, with 26 personally created recipes. You might overlook it as a potential
1986. addition to your collection.  The drinks
1987. aren’t bad and it is an easy to find out-of-print book, on eBay or Amazon, for less
1988. than $15 in hardback.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
1989. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1990. <br /></div>
1991. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
1992. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">In <i>3 Bottle Bar</i>, Hi talks about only
1993. needing three bottles of liquor to make most drinks requested by guests -
1994. whiskey, gin, and dry white wine (which he substitutes for vermouth). In the
1995. section entitled <i>Afterthoughts</i>, he relents
1996. and says that it would be OK to expand to a 5 bottle bar, adding rum and scotch
1997. if desired.  In the course of his book,
1998. like most other authors of the genre, he offers suggestions on how to best
1999. prepare a drink, requirements for a bar, and related trivia.  I like his less than elitist attitude
2000. regarding liquors.  Discussing “whiskey,”
2001. he does not mean bourbon or rye. He suggests using whichever whiskey you enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2002. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2003. <br /></div>
2004. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2005. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">You may
2006. be thinking, “Meh, doesn’t sound like much to bother with.”  There is more.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2007. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2008. <br /></div>
2009. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2010. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">A large
2011. part of the pleasure of using a vintage drink book, or a favorite cookbook, is
2012. that the handful of paper is a tangible link in a chain to the the past.  A link not only to those who used that book,
2013. but to the author who wrote it.  While H.i.
2014. Williams appears to be merely the writer of a mildly entertaining bar book, he
2015. was so much more. To quote the foreward to <i>3
2016. Bottle Bar:</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
2017. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2018. <br /></div>
2019. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2020. <i><span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">In
2021. earlier years, he relied on drawing as his medium, and he did well with it;
2022. painting followed, and he did well with it, too. Currently photography is his
2023. choice, and his colorful compositions, which are reproduced in millions of
2024. magazines each month, have identified H.i. Williams as one of the foremost
2025. photographers in America.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
2026. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2027. <br /></div>
2028. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2029. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">H.i.
2030. Williams career spanned 50 years.  He was
2031. renown for his contribution to the “food as fashion” movement of the 1930’s.
2032. This influenced advertising art as we know it today. He was much sought after
2033. for his ability to create engaging, brightly colored commercial photographs of
2034. food.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2035. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2036. <br /></div>
2037. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2038. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">A
2039. graduate of the Cincinnati Academy of Art, he earned reputation as a sculptor
2040. and artist.  In 1919, he moved on to New
2041. York and became a commercial photograper in the 1920s.  Williams shot iconic compositions for many companies
2042. including Fiestaware and Fleishmanns Yeast. Pillsbury used his images in their
2043. advertising and on cake mix boxes. Examples of his work are in many homes
2044. today.  If you look, you may have some,
2045. too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2046. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2047. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif""> </span> </div>
2048. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
2049. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLg2SeVukuqo6_hd2pNnznRslsZ-ui7fX0NyustagDXtpn-d8xEhpby-dBs2V0VZnNKNqYe-8OZ5KBhFbZbVDPIX7osF4fWnvMmbQpDEpCK7cOSriyU49NnXN9L8Ieu9W7D5U74EqGDSR/s1600/foodbw.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwLg2SeVukuqo6_hd2pNnznRslsZ-ui7fX0NyustagDXtpn-d8xEhpby-dBs2V0VZnNKNqYe-8OZ5KBhFbZbVDPIX7osF4fWnvMmbQpDEpCK7cOSriyU49NnXN9L8Ieu9W7D5U74EqGDSR/s1600/foodbw.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>
2050. <div class="NoList1">
2051. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJI2NAPvluDgAbwmTU_fsMDaVdfpsbYhsmfW4W_FdW56KRkz0VwgZxYTuSuuuHoHQLF03-0i5Bfx5AT_mASiI6u3KGBUzsZEs0i4ZUxIK4ghadEYa4-22MICTVXN7Mfh_MF6GYhDETo-g/s1600/foodraw.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJI2NAPvluDgAbwmTU_fsMDaVdfpsbYhsmfW4W_FdW56KRkz0VwgZxYTuSuuuHoHQLF03-0i5Bfx5AT_mASiI6u3KGBUzsZEs0i4ZUxIK4ghadEYa4-22MICTVXN7Mfh_MF6GYhDETo-g/s1600/foodraw.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span face="'Lucida Sans', sans-serif"></span></div>
2052. <div style="text-align: left;">
2053. Prior to
2054. the 1930s, images in cookbooks were hand drawn, sometimes hand colored, but more
2055. often, lifeless black and white photos.</div>
2056. <br />
2057. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2058. <br /></div>
2059. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2060. <br /></div>
2061. <div class="NoList1">
2062. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif""></span></div>
2063. <div style="text-align: justify;">
2064. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHbPeev7piGwfVBka6hfNtJ6bMT-LqZmLV03IjEPrZM7Zvg3-VBYuoMF2tjgx34np9AZlswljfepqHb5qlxSrMmcJ75m0a7CSmA4rhZVhfv8Hrg_S2-15sB5Fjm2cqnXLp9QgdOJFZEf3u/s1600/Carbrofood.jpg.jpeg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHbPeev7piGwfVBka6hfNtJ6bMT-LqZmLV03IjEPrZM7Zvg3-VBYuoMF2tjgx34np9AZlswljfepqHb5qlxSrMmcJ75m0a7CSmA4rhZVhfv8Hrg_S2-15sB5Fjm2cqnXLp9QgdOJFZEf3u/s1600/Carbrofood.jpg.jpeg" /></a><span face="'Lucida Sans', sans-serif"></span><br />
2065. <div style="text-align: left;">
2066. <span face="'Lucida Sans', sans-serif">Do you remember your mothers, or
2067. grandmothers, cookbooks of the 1930s, 40s and 50s?  Sprinkled with pages of brightly colored,
2068. full bleed images, of food perfectly prepared, appearing as it should when
2069. served at the family table?  These were
2070. added to give the cookbooks a bit of dash and appeal to homemakers.  Much of that color imagery was provided by
2071. “H.i.” or his disciples.</span></div>
2072. <span face="'Lucida Sans', sans-serif">
2073. </span></div>
2074. <o:p></o:p><br />
2075. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2076. <br /></div>
2077. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2078. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">Williams
2079. was a perfectionist. He had a test kitchen with a staff that included
2080. professional cooks and bakers. Meats and fish were professionally cut so that
2081. the end product would look flawless. One anecdote alleges he would have his
2082. staff go through 20 boxes of crackers to find those that were “pristine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2083. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2084. <br /></div>
2085. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2086. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">Creating
2087. his compositions was time consuming.  He
2088. would first meticulously arrange the layout, when it was completed to his
2089. satisfaction, he would discard and replace anything that was damaged or had lost
2090. its’ look of freshness.  Only then would
2091. he photograph the result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2092. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2093. <br /></div>
2094. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2095. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">I have a
2096. friend, Mark, who likes to say, regarding selling, that “it is the
2097. sizzle that sells the bacon.”  Well, H.i.
2098. Williams put the sizzle in food advertising and cookbooks. For this, he was
2099. recognized world-wide, and virtually every professional photography magazine of
2100. the 1940’s and 1950’s featured interviews as well as articles about his work and
2101. techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2102. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2103. <br /></div>
2104. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2105. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">The
2106. photographic process Williams favored to make food appear life-like is known as the
2107. trichrome carbro.  Carbro is short for
2108. carbon and bromide. The trichrome carbro is very time intensive. Taking 80, or
2109. more, steps, it is said that a person working a 40 hour week could complete
2110. about twelve of these photographs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2111. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2112. <br /></div>
2113. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
2114. </div>
2115. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
2116. </div>
2117. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2118. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">The trichrome carbro process requires
2119. three negatives taken utilizing red, green, and blue filters.  These negatives are then transferred to
2120. pigmented gelatin sheets which when developed, are then layered. Registration
2121. has to be perfect to achieve the final color image.  While this is a very quick and dirty
2122. explanation, the results are impressive. There are many articles online that explain the process
2123. more completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2124. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2125. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif""><br /></span></div>
2126. <div class="NoList1">
2127. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20kxwpyWU0LmdLsWzUiDKOOB_3FeqQCiaFznuDTEN4apvJNR3vgTvmPBqUPz5MSOt9gXnW5pT2oZWSkRH_7eMx0sQ4dgCWSm73gj0HPbUMq9KT1IsOx8B2hSyPuqW9irNLGWaJxV84E08/s1600/Carbrodrink.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20kxwpyWU0LmdLsWzUiDKOOB_3FeqQCiaFznuDTEN4apvJNR3vgTvmPBqUPz5MSOt9gXnW5pT2oZWSkRH_7eMx0sQ4dgCWSm73gj0HPbUMq9KT1IsOx8B2hSyPuqW9irNLGWaJxV84E08/s1600/Carbrodrink.jpg" width="308" /></a></div>
2128. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2129. <i><span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">3 Bottle Bar</span></i><span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">, is a book by a creative genius of the advertising
2130. age whose influence is wide spread. As a link to a bit of modern history, the
2131. text is an item of drink related arcana worthy of your attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2132. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2133. <br /></div>
2134. <br />
2135. <div class="NoList1" style="text-align: left;">
2136. <span face=""Lucida Sans","sans-serif"">From <i>3 Bottle Bar,</i> the drink of the day is the
2137. <i>Carbro</i>. A drink by  H.i. Williams, with a name of his choosing
2138. that we can now understand and appreciate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2140. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It recently came to my attention that this is 73<sup>rd</sup>
2141. anniversary of the US Army’s issuance of a request for proposals that
2142. culminated in the manufacture of the venerable jeep.  This brought back personal memories, as well
2143. as an opportunity to mention a forgotten cocktail that did not achieve the fame
2144. of its namesake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2145. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2146. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2147. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2148. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a young man, I passed through a stage of life in which I
2149. was enamored of 4 wheel drive vehicles, particularly “jeeps”.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2150. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2151. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2152. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2153. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had always liked old pick-up trucks.  My first love was a green, two-wheel drive, 1951 Dodge truck,
2154. fresh from a farm. This truck came complete with “three on the tree,” half-moon hubcaps, bald
2155. snow tires, a rotted out wood bed and rust in the running boards and
2156. fenders.  It did have a working radio and
2157. heater.  What could be better than that?  Only something as reliable, as sexy as a sow,
2158. and with 4 wheel drive – obviously a Jeep!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2159. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2160. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2161. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2162. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The military variants of the jeep are no more closely
2163. related to the modern civilian toys than the Wright brothers Flyer 1 is to a
2164. Boeing 777.  The basic construction,
2165. power train, and hardware were incredibly simple and lent themselves to easy maintenance and field expedient repairs. 
2166. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2167. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2168. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2169. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2170. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On one occasion, when the fuel pump failed on an M38A1, I
2171. rode 20 miles on a dirt road in the Gila Wilderness, sitting on the cowl, while pouring gas into the carburetor. 
2172. After removing the windshield, a friend drove while I poured the gas
2173. from a canteen cup, into an improvised aluminum foil funnel that was wrapped
2174. around a piece of rubber tubing.  The
2175. tubing was jammed onto the carburetor fuel line, which we had bent upward.  The other passenger refilled my canteen cup
2176. from a 5 gallon jerry can sans spout. Gasoline was splashed everywhere.  When we finally got to civilization, I had a
2177. pretty good chemical dermatitis on my hands and torso, and smelled like a
2178. refinery.  I don’t recommend trying this
2179. at home, as it was clearly a case of God protecting “fools, lovers and
2180. drunkards.” Unfortunately, we were the former rather than the latter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2181. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2182. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2183. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
2184. </div>
2185. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
2186. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgarSLupAdJ44Wce77o12GlkE0JYmV7U3zaGbZaKJrxGr-hMLTDVlo3Nd4SgXp-JI1SL0KwyEh1ei_gKOhGTrZLjw4EvdelpVh1Qladw0f2GcOKTCuO3raiUo6Pn7Hvm3R0p2jtB4mRoa11/s1600/Al.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgarSLupAdJ44Wce77o12GlkE0JYmV7U3zaGbZaKJrxGr-hMLTDVlo3Nd4SgXp-JI1SL0KwyEh1ei_gKOhGTrZLjw4EvdelpVh1Qladw0f2GcOKTCuO3raiUo6Pn7Hvm3R0p2jtB4mRoa11/s1600/Al.jpg" height="320" width="238" /></span></a></div>
2187. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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2220. </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My unrequited lust
2221. for a 4WD vehicle was turned into reality by my father-in-law, Al.  When I told Al that I would like to buy a jeep
2222. from a surplus yard in El Paso, but was short the money and mechanical talent
2223. to restore it, he offered up the needed funds and the mechanical know-how.  Al was a retired Army mechanic who had been
2224. raised on a poor farm in Michigan.   Though
2225. a functional illiterate, he could fabricate, restore, or otherwise return to
2226. life damn near anything.  While a
2227. difficult person, his “can do” belief that everything broken could be fixed, and
2228. that everything needed can be made or found, augmented by a staunch refusal to
2229. accept otherwise, is still a wonder. 
2230. This life lesson has stood me well, and I have tried to pass it on to my
2231. children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2232. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2233. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2234. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2235. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first jeep we rebuilt was a 1955 Willys M170 Frontline
2236. Ambulance.  </span></div>
2237. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2238. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2239. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2240. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It had a Hurricane F-head engine
2241. with an accursed Carter YF carburetor, a T-90 3-speed transmission (which I had
2242. to tear down and rebuild a second time after finding an omitted synchronizer
2243. ring in a rag), Dana transfer case and axles, and a super heavy duty suspension
2244. since the jeep was designed to handle a driver, passenger, and three litters.  Best of all, it had features that would make
2245. any vehicle a dream.  Ample storage
2246. compartments in both wheel wells and under the passenger jump seat, canvas covered
2247. wheel well bench cushions, which along with the front seats that were resistant
2248. to foul weather. The passenger jump seat could be hung from a bar on the dash
2249. to make room for a third stretcher – or camping gear, and the spare tire was
2250. carried vertically in a wheel well next to the passenger.  All this, plus it still had the original
2251. military paint and insignia. It was as if all my adolescent dreams had come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2252. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2253. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2254. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
2255. </div>
2256. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2257. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recollections of the
2258. M170 are bittersweet.  </span></div>
2259. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2260. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2261. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
2262. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9zCn9HPWFHr5TaGnAK-HAqIpBgJwK5ejPf1Gl8WY0MndlAptnTEX9055rdno2EOsK5fUzpptY0n4EjztZhg0kolp-zn6lkcYWH_YDuBE61fRvvEZIqPzuKNNBoyWvUOBEyENDIbJ2Ur4/s1600/UsJeep1.tif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9zCn9HPWFHr5TaGnAK-HAqIpBgJwK5ejPf1Gl8WY0MndlAptnTEX9055rdno2EOsK5fUzpptY0n4EjztZhg0kolp-zn6lkcYWH_YDuBE61fRvvEZIqPzuKNNBoyWvUOBEyENDIbJ2Ur4/s1600/UsJeep1.tif" height="211" width="320" /></span></a></div>
2263. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2264. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was rebuilt the year we were married, and I spent more time with my father-in-law building the
2265. jeep, than with my wife—something she has reminded me many times over the last
2266. four decades.  I was oblivious to
2267. everything except the jeep project.</span></div>
2268. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2269. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2270. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2271. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the first, the M170 was so much more useful than the 1964
2272. VW that it had replaced.<span style="color: red;">  </span>Once, parked in a dirt lot, I returned
2273. from class and found my “jeep” hemmed in on all sides.  No problem! 
2274. I engaged the 4 wheel drive and pushed the car in front of me out of the
2275. way so that I could leave. </span></div>
2276. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2277. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, I was a
2278. jerk.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2279. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2280. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2281. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2282. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following year I went into the Army and the M170 stayed
2283. with us. We struggled through a blizzard in Raton Pass to get to my first duty
2284. station, Fitzsimmons Army Hospital, Denver Colorado.  Later, it easily, albeit slowly climbed the mostly
2285. dirt and gravel road up Pikes Peak, while newer automobiles sat overheated at
2286. the side of the road.  I fondly recall
2287. watching my very pregnant wife, in the short dresses of the early 70’s, stepping
2288. high over the spare tire to get to the jump seat and, on a later trip,
2289. complaining about oil dripping from the oil pressure sending unit onto her
2290. stockings (imagine a time when women wore stockings everywhere, even in a
2291. jeep!).  I told her, quite seriously,
2292. that it was “clean oil.”  A very poorly
2293. received comment. Young men can be such boors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2294. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2295. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2296. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2297. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Serving in the military, vehicle parts were amazingly easy
2298. for an enterprising soldier to acquire – Korean War vintage run-flat tires from
2299. Rocky Mountain Arsenal, fuel, oil and water pumps from sundry Army Reserve units,
2300. assorted parts as needed from military cannibalization points, and litters from
2301. the hospital (the litters were also our first bed, until we could afford used
2302. furniture, at my next duty station).  It
2303. was a first rate vehicle, fit to pass any inspection. When it broke down, it
2304. was usually a minor problem that, with what I had learned from Al, was repairable
2305. with basic tools and bruised knuckles. 
2306. The most persistent, and annoying, problems were vapor lock and a
2307. sticking carburetor float.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2308. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2309. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2310. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2311. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last trip we made in the M170 was truly epic.  Keep in mind this was our family car, not a
2312. beater used for hunting and fishing.  In
2313. 1973, on a two week leave, we travelled from San Antonio, Texas to New York City,
2314. by way of Jacksonville, Florida, then back. 
2315. We started with $50 cash and a gas credit card.  This would be a journey of over 3800 miles.  I planned to drive long days and minimize
2316. expenses by staying with relatives along the way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2317. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2318. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2319. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2320. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, for those of you driving those pimp-mobiles that pass
2321. for a modern Jeep, the drive may sound a little long, but not particularly
2322. difficult.  Try it in hot weather,
2323. without air conditioning but with engine heat radiating through the firewall,
2324. an incredibly stiff suspension - not so wonderful now, run-flat tires so hard
2325. you felt every pebble in the asphalt, a top speed of 55 mph – the very
2326. definition of “getting nowhere fast”, hard rubberized horse hair seats which,
2327. by the end of the day,  felt like sitting
2328. on sandbags, a 6 month old child in a bassinet, and
2329. a German wife ready to point out any shortcomings I might have missed. Also,
2330. there was no radio to break the monotony or drown out heat and fatigue inspired
2331. tirades.  Trip safety planning meant
2332. taking my 9mm FN Hi-power, a fire extinguisher, an extra fuel pump, water pump,
2333. and oil pump, and a few hand tools.  Seat
2334. belts and air bags were not part of the picture. Thinking about it still makes
2335. me tired. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2336. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2337. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2338. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2339. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trip was a series of minor adventures. Somewhere outside Houma, Louisiana we broke down.  It was a simple problem, once found.  A loose distributor ground, repaired with a
2340. minimum of snarling.  My main memory of Houma
2341. is the suffocating heat.  It was hotter
2342. than the hinges of Hades and the humidity had to be 110%. In Tuscaloosa,
2343. Alabama, we were rear ended by a lady driving an Olds 88, slightly damaging our
2344. left rear quarter panel.  We ran out of
2345. gas in Quincy, Florida late at night. I hitched a ride to a gas station, with
2346. some teenagers, while my wife and child stayed in the car.  My spouse remembers that night slightly
2347. differently. She recalls being alone and afraid, in the dark, with the baby.  Days later, safely arriving in New York, we were
2348. just in time for rush hour traffic. My wife was incredibly tense and annoying
2349. as a “backseat<span style="color: red;"> </span>driver.” I felt great driving the only cool vehicle
2350. on the road in New York City.  No lack of
2351. hubris in that other me of long ago.</span></div>
2352. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2353. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2354. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2355. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ultimately, this trip
2356. was the death knell of the M170.  Getting
2357. home, we were all tired and sore.  I could
2358. barely tolerate having to use the jeep to go to work at Brooke Army Medical
2359. Center.  Within weeks of returning, I
2360. sold the M170 to a fellow sergeant for $400, along with plenty of spare parts
2361. and GI manuals so generously provided by Uncle Sam.  Sadly, when sold, I told him that I thought
2362. the oil pump was failing and to install one of the spares.  Lazier than even I, he failed to do so and,
2363. ignoring the oil pressure gauge, seized up the engine two weeks later. While
2364. the M170 was followed by a Jeep Commando and two M38A1’s, none were so loved,
2365. nor so traveled, but all have their stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2366. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2367. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2368. <div class="MsoNormal">
2369. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ptjNDBePClNYoKvsur7x3xaKm-k7vVYTVkZMOeBMi3hnYKPnyx20bbGYDe6Up97HChTcoma6PXZccLBY4vRFELj1JY4hDqc_WpXHxMo8xvkU2j7KfGu7Gp1X_vv77v3B43BpBLO7Wqg2/s1600/JeepRecipe.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ptjNDBePClNYoKvsur7x3xaKm-k7vVYTVkZMOeBMi3hnYKPnyx20bbGYDe6Up97HChTcoma6PXZccLBY4vRFELj1JY4hDqc_WpXHxMo8xvkU2j7KfGu7Gp1X_vv77v3B43BpBLO7Wqg2/s1600/JeepRecipe.png" height="320" width="217" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div>
2370. <div style="text-align: justify;">
2371. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The drink I choose to pair with this blog, is called “The
2372. Jeep.” It comes from the <i>3 Bottle Bar</i> by H.i. Williams, 1943. No,
2373. the little “i” in the second initial is not a typo. Born Harney Isham Williams,
2374. he went by “H.i.” in credits, or when he signed his name.</span></div>
2375. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
2376. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2377. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2378. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2379. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The drink, the author says, is “<i>Designed for rough sledding, the Jeep has a three power drive with a
2380. pick up robust enough to pull even the weariest wayfarer out of the deepest rut</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2381. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2382. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2383. <br />
2384. <div class="MsoNormal">
2385. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT90SUxZwOewT8ciQGsmyXDLL06vDdm0vodSJ2satthisISFGtam4prBaBDVOL6zrLk-aVgxo7OQuZ3R0qm5sgqmi5P19DebyjXeQF7sUUuHmcbY3ZK2cT5pEb7_k7hAzzblCiCXGMHjXG/s1600/JeepDrink.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div>
2386. <div style="text-align: justify;">
2387. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My wife and I find
2388. the drink quite tasty. </span></div>
2389. <br />
2390. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2391. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2392. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
2393. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT90SUxZwOewT8ciQGsmyXDLL06vDdm0vodSJ2satthisISFGtam4prBaBDVOL6zrLk-aVgxo7OQuZ3R0qm5sgqmi5P19DebyjXeQF7sUUuHmcbY3ZK2cT5pEb7_k7hAzzblCiCXGMHjXG/s1600/JeepDrink.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT90SUxZwOewT8ciQGsmyXDLL06vDdm0vodSJ2satthisISFGtam4prBaBDVOL6zrLk-aVgxo7OQuZ3R0qm5sgqmi5P19DebyjXeQF7sUUuHmcbY3ZK2cT5pEb7_k7hAzzblCiCXGMHjXG/s1600/JeepDrink.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In older bar books, when gin was not otherwise specified
2394. as "dry," "Plymouth" or "Holland," an Old Tom was the choice inferred.  Old Tom gins, sweeter and generally milder
2395. tasting, are harder to find now, but very pleasant to the palate in a mixed
2396. drink or cocktail.  I used <i>Brothers Old Tom Gin</i>, made here in New
2397. Mexico by the Left Turn Distillery of Albuquerque. For “whiskey”, I used <i>Old Overholt </i>rye, an American classic, as
2398. I personally find rye whiskey more pleasant and less “boozey” in mixed
2399. drinks.  The wine was a nice,
2400. inexpensive, California <i>Beringer Chenin
2401. Blanc</i>. The juice came from two tiny
2402. Cutie oranges. Cheers!</span></div>
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2405. <div class="MsoNormal">
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2409. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2410. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2411. <div class="MsoNormal">
2412. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to eBay, Amazon, AbeBooks, and COAS - my local used
2413. bookstore, I have a collection of 90+ books related to Drink, ranging from Willie
2414. Schmidts' 1892 treatise <i>The Flowing Bowl</i>
2415. to recent works such as <i>To Have And Have
2416. Another</i> by Phillip Greene. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2417. <div class="MsoNormal">
2418. <br /></div>
2419. <div class="MsoNormal">
2420. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here in southern New Mexico, drinking is largely Bud, in its
2421. various forms, and margaritas. Hardly more interesting, probably less so, than
2422. in the 60's when I frequented the Kentucky Club and Freds' Rainbow Bar in
2423. Juarez, Mexico. At least the drinks were cheap, the Mexican beer good, and the
2424. 50 cent sandwiches at Freds' took care of the munchies. The pursuit of engaging
2425. bar books, and mixing mostly forgotten drinks from the past, is a nice way to
2426. add something special to an ordinary day and an opportunity to share thoughts,
2427. and drinks with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2428. <div class="MsoNormal">
2429. <br /></div>
2430. <div class="MsoNormal">
2431. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
2432. </div>
2433. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
2434. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrSvvWGnYrItstjMqbse8t-xyXZptBb59Kx-0k55IzoCo1KtCgqbUQ_d8YJUU7p8DavbdTEExJLGAgr61gBP8F1oJsovnJz3FSy853LlGW6mdtnrJqdDM0j_zcxVwt-jLgj4tuSOolQezV/s1600/Lexicon.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrSvvWGnYrItstjMqbse8t-xyXZptBb59Kx-0k55IzoCo1KtCgqbUQ_d8YJUU7p8DavbdTEExJLGAgr61gBP8F1oJsovnJz3FSy853LlGW6mdtnrJqdDM0j_zcxVwt-jLgj4tuSOolQezV/s1600/Lexicon.JPG" /></a></div>
2435. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Several of my books are German, dating from 1905 to 1920. A
2436. favorite is the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lexikon Der Getranke</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
2437. (Encyclopedia of Drinks)1913, by Leybold & Schönfeld, fellows of the
2438. Internationalen Barkeepers-Union, Cöln. 
2439. The </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lexikon</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is a 296 page
2440. compendium  of  drinks and vintage advertisements for booze,
2441. bars, and purveyors to the trade.  The
2442. recipes include American, German, and European mixed drinks.</span></div>
2443. <div class="MsoNormal">
2444. <br /></div>
2445. <div class="MsoNormal">
2446. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of special interest, is the section labeled “Regiment-Mischungen”
2447. (Regimental Mixtures).  Comprised of  23 pages listing regimental “mixtures,” there
2448. are 181 drinks alone for infantry regiments. 
2449. Every possible organization seems to be mentioned. Do you fancy yourself
2450. in a tchapka sipping the traditional drink of the 3<sup>rd</sup> Prussian Uhlans,
2451. or have just finished your model railroad layout and want to celebrate your
2452. success with the drink the Eisenbahner (railway men) toasted with?  <i>Lexikon
2453. Der Getranke</i> has the answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2454. <div class="MsoNormal">
2455. <br /></div>
2456. <div class="MsoNormal">
2457. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While, in my opinion, a great book, there are a couple of
2458. burrs under the saddle. The units of measure can be odd, and some of the
2459. ingredients have disappeared or are difficult to obtain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2460. <div class="MsoNormal">
2461. <br /></div>
2462. <div class="MsoNormal">
2463. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The measures in this book may drive you to drink, or perhaps
2464. to a modern English cocktail book that will not have you grinding your teeth.
2465. The recipes vary from the simple ratio measurements still used today, to the
2466. more esoteric measures of an era long past. 
2467. Like many vintage tomes dedicated to mixology, German books seem to be
2468. notoriously poor in defining the unit volume of a measure. When asked to add a
2469. Likörglas, or Portweinglas, how much liquor do you use? Today, you cannot even get
2470. oenophiles to agree on the size, or shape, of a port glass.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2471. <div class="MsoNormal">
2472. <br /></div>
2473. <div class="MsoNormal">
2474. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently, these measures were once more precise than
2475. simply grabbing a small, or not so small, glass.  In the <i>Handbuch
2476. Der Krankenphlege</i> (Handbook for the Sickroom), 1904,  and other references, I have found some
2477. measures used in cocktail books of the day, along with their corresponding
2478. volumes. The measures below may be helpful to those of us easily confused and
2479. confounded. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2480. <div class="MsoNormal">
2481. <br /></div>
2482. <div class="MsoNormal">
2483. <div style="text-align: center;">
2484. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p> </span></div>
2485. </div>
2486. <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-left: 34.15pt; text-align: center;">
2487. <tbody>
2488. <tr>
2489.  <td colspan="5" style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 347.4pt;" valign="top" width="695"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2490. <b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vintage
2491.  German-English Measurement Equivalents<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
2492. </td>
2493. </tr>
2494. <tr>
2495.  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.9pt;" valign="top" width="182"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2496. <b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Measure<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
2497. </td>
2498.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .75in;" valign="top" width="108"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2499. <b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Volume<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
2500. </td>
2501.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.5pt;" valign="top" width="27"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2502. <br /></div>
2503. </td>
2504.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.5pt;" valign="top" width="207"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2505. <b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Measure<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
2506. </td>
2507.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.5pt;" valign="top" width="171"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2508. <b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Volume<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
2509. </td>
2510. </tr>
2511. <tr>
2512.  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.9pt;" valign="top" width="182"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2513. <i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Likörglas<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
2514. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2515. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(liqueur glass)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2516. </td>
2517.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .75in;" valign="top" width="108"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2518. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">30ml<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2519. </td>
2520.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.5pt;" valign="top" width="27"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2521. <br /></div>
2522. </td>
2523.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.5pt;" valign="top" width="207"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2524. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Limonadenglas</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> (Lemonade glass)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2525. </td>
2526.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.5pt;" valign="top" width="171"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2527. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">220ml<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2528. </td>
2529. </tr>
2530. <tr>
2531.  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.9pt;" valign="top" width="182"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2532. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Portweinglas</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2533. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2534. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Port wine glass)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2535. </td>
2536.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .75in;" valign="top" width="108"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2537. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">40ml<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2538. </td>
2539.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.5pt;" valign="top" width="27"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2540. <br /></div>
2541. </td>
2542.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.5pt;" valign="top" width="207"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2543. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Flasche</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2544. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2545. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(bottle or flask)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2546. </td>
2547.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.5pt;" valign="top" width="171"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2548. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">30ml – 1 L.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2549. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2550. <span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Content dependent<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2551. </td>
2552. </tr>
2553. <tr>
2554.  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.9pt;" valign="top" width="182"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2555. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Moccatasse</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> (Demitasse cup)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2556. </td>
2557.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .75in;" valign="top" width="108"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2558. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">50ml<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2559. </td>
2560.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.5pt;" valign="top" width="27"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2561. <br /></div>
2562. </td>
2563.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.5pt;" valign="top" width="207"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2564. <i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">schuß<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
2565. </td>
2566.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.5pt;" valign="top" width="171"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2567. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a splash, or dash<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2568. </td>
2569. </tr>
2570. <tr>
2571.  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.9pt;" valign="top" width="182"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2572. <i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weinglas<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
2573. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2574. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Wine glass)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2575. </td>
2576.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .75in;" valign="top" width="108"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2577. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">125ml<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2578. </td>
2579.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.5pt;" valign="top" width="27"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2580. <br /></div>
2581. </td>
2582.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.5pt;" valign="top" width="207"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2583. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Essloeffel </span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">or<i> Eβlöffel </i>or<i> EL</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2584. </td>
2585.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.5pt;" valign="top" width="171"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2586. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15ml<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2587. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2588. <span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(about 1 level Tbsp)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2589. </td>
2590. </tr>
2591. <tr>
2592.  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.9pt;" valign="top" width="182"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2593. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">mittlere
2594.  Tasse</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">  (Medium cup)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2595. </td>
2596.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .75in;" valign="top" width="108"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2597. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">150ml<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2598. </td>
2599.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.5pt;" valign="top" width="27"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2600. <br /></div>
2601. </td>
2602.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.5pt;" valign="top" width="207"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2603. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Kinderlöffel</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2604. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2605. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Childs spoon)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2606. </td>
2607.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.5pt;" valign="top" width="171"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2608. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10ml<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2609. </td>
2610. </tr>
2611. <tr>
2612.  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.9pt;" valign="top" width="182"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2613. <i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">gewöhnliche
2614.  Tasse<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
2615. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2616. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Ordinary cup)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2617. </td>
2618.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .75in;" valign="top" width="108"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2619. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">200ml<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2620. </td>
2621.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.5pt;" valign="top" width="27"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2622. <br /></div>
2623. </td>
2624.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.5pt;" valign="top" width="207"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2625. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Teelöffel</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> or <i>Teeloeffel</i>
2626.  or <i>Teel.</i> or <i>T</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2627. </td>
2628.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.5pt;" valign="top" width="171"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2629. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5ml<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2630. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2631. <span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(about 1 level tsp)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2632. </td>
2633. </tr>
2634. <tr>
2635.  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.9pt;" valign="top" width="182"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2636. <i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wasserglas<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
2637. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2638. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Water glass)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2639. </td>
2640.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .75in;" valign="top" width="108"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2641. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">0.4l<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2642. </td>
2643.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.5pt;" valign="top" width="27"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2644. <br /></div>
2645. </td>
2646.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.5pt;" valign="top" width="207"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2647. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Messerspitze</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2648. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2649. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Knife tip)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2650. </td>
2651.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.5pt;" valign="top" width="171"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2652. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/8 tsp or 1 pinch<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2653. </td>
2654. </tr>
2655. <tr style="height: 8.05pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
2656.  <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 8.05pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 90.9pt;" valign="top" width="182"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2657. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Portionstasse</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> (Serving cup)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2658. </td>
2659.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 8.05pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: .75in;" valign="top" width="108"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2660. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">0.3l<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
2661. </td>
2662.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 8.05pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 13.5pt;" valign="top" width="27"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2663. <br /></div>
2664. </td>
2665.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 8.05pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 103.5pt;" valign="top" width="207"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2666. <br /></div>
2667. </td>
2668.  <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 8.05pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 85.5pt;" valign="top" width="171"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2669. <br /></div>
2670. </td>
2671. </tr>
2672. </tbody></table>
2673. <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2674. <br /></div>
2675. <div class="MsoNormal">
2676. <div style="text-align: center;">
2677. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
2678. </div>
2679. <div class="MsoNormal">
2680. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many, if not all, of the liquors and other ingredients are
2681. still available, or have modern analogs, that will make a passable drink.  The problem lies in figuring out what the odd
2682. ingredient is so that you can make an appropriate substitute. Fortunately, we
2683. have the internet and appreciate the fact that all, that is truthful and worth
2684. knowing, is there.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2685. <div class="MsoNormal">
2686. <br /></div>
2687. <div class="MsoNormal">
2688. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Need to top a glass with Sauerbrunn? Easy.  Sauerbrunn is a naturally carbonated mineral
2689. water from the Tyrol.  Do you live
2690. somewhere, as I do, where choice of mineral water is bottled tap water or
2691. Perrier & S. Pelligrino?  Quietly
2692. slip in your favorite carbonated mineral water. 
2693. The bubbles don’t care how they got there and you can choose the one most
2694. agreeable to your palate.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
2695. <div class="MsoNormal">
2696. <br /></div>
2697. <div class="MsoNormal">
2698. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stuck on Stoughton’s? 
2699. Those bitters have been off the market since Hector was a pup.  San Francisco Bitters makes something that is
2700. alledgely close.  There are all sorts of
2701. recipes for Stoughton’s out there purporting to be correct, some in books of
2702. the time, though nobody living is old enough to remember the original.  The quick solution is to simply grab your
2703. Angostura or Peychaud’s.  You will have
2704. just brought a dusty antique to the 21<sup>st</sup> century.  These suggestions are heresy to some cocktail
2705. cognecenti but, as a layman of potable potions and a back-sliding Baptist, I have
2706. done far worse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2707. <div class="MsoNormal">
2708. <br /></div>
2709. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
2710. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzOcFXn0rKHsu574TX2Vhgav_WAJYhUjOT03I5HLeq8qEQuLQ6ey1orZIJwr_wDwEBsffxoDS2KO6uUl3Umvy9WgPld7Prua1Alqxs-DZpgUaGeE8X5d-8QkWWnIvoJoI34JZvYmGvl0LX/s1600/Luftschiffe1909.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzOcFXn0rKHsu574TX2Vhgav_WAJYhUjOT03I5HLeq8qEQuLQ6ey1orZIJwr_wDwEBsffxoDS2KO6uUl3Umvy9WgPld7Prua1Alqxs-DZpgUaGeE8X5d-8QkWWnIvoJoI34JZvYmGvl0LX/s1600/Luftschiffe1909.jpg" height="227" width="320" /></a></div>
2711. <div class="MsoNormal">
2712. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having made it this far, it would be abject cruelty to close
2713. this blog without offering a tasty drink. Being summer, a "cooler"
2714. seems most appropriate. From <i>Lexikon</i>,
2715. the Luftshiff, or Airship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
2716. <div class="MsoNormal">
2717. <br /></div>
2718. <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
2719. <b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Luftshiff<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
2720. <br />
2721. <div class="MsoNormal">
2722. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a lemonade (8oz.) glass, add some fresh peppermint
2723. leaves, the juice of 1/4 lemon,    and 1
2724. 1/2 oz. Rye whiskey. Add ice to half full and fill with ginger ale.  Garnish with fruit and peppermint leaves. <i>Note:</i> I find the drink improved if,
2725. after adding lemon and rye, you muddle the mint leaves. The first drink goes
2726. down quickly, plan on a second. Sehr gut!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
2727. </div>
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