The Lost Art of Cocktail Mixing, Episode I
This is an archival post taken from my old xanga blog. Comments have been disabled.
Something that has sort of fascinated me, since roughly the time it became legal for me to drink, is the mixing of cocktails, or more specifically, the mixing of cocktails prior to about 1965. Somewhere along then, someone came up with the "wine spritzer" and the American palette has yet to recover. Most now popular mixed drinks seem to take inspiration from some flavor of LifeSaver or SweetTart. There was a time (so I'm told) when cocktails were consumed at least as often in the home as in bars. I think the following quote from The Joy of Cooking (the old one, of course) is rather telling...
