Mexican Firing Squad
The Mexican Firing Squad is one of the many cocktails documented by world traveler, cocktail writer and historian Charles H. Baker, discovered at the La Cucaracha Bar in Mexico City…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Millionaire Cocktail
There are five different cocktails carrying the Millionaire moniker. This one is adapted from The How and When cocktail book by Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco, 1938.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Flannel Shirt
Jeffrey Morgenthaler used the classic flavors of fall—apple, earth, spice and smoke—to create this fleecy, bone-warming drink.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
ZZ’s Pineapple Cocktail
At ZZ's Clam Bar in New York City, this cocktail is served in a vintage, brass pineapple, mounded with cobbled ice and garnished with a drift of aromatic chamomile powder…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Dylan + Jeni
Barrymore Room
A former bartender at Brooklyn’s Clover Club, Brad Farran created this variation on the bar’s namesake cocktail reverse-engineered with bourbon, lime juice, sweet vermouth and strawberry.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Pegu Club
The Pegu Club, located in Yangon, Myanmar, found itself at the center of British social life in 1920s. Its members, citizens of a bygone political era, knew the city as…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
New York Sour
New York has a knack for adopting everything from fashion to food to people, and molding each into its own particular blend of outrageous, sophisticated and neurotic. Such is the…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Paddington
A Hemingway Daiquiri variation made with orange marmalade, Paddington Bear’s treat of choice.
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Bee’s Knees
A twist on the Gin Sour, this mix of gin, honey and lemon is thought to have bubbled up during Prohibition, when questionable bootlegged spirits begged to be masked.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger