Robert Simonson writes about cocktails, spirits and bars for the New York Times. He is the author of The Old-Fashioned: The Story of the World's First Classic Cocktail (2014), A Proper Drink (2016) and 3-Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail Canon (2017).

About That Angostura Label
How did the iconic label’s recipes—and “whack-job, world-unto-itself word mosaic”—come to be?
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Valeria Alonzo