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Cardinal

Belonging to the ecclesiastic family of wine-based punches, the Champagne-based Cardinal cocktail was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Airmail

The first instance of the Air Mail cocktail was documented in Esquire magazine’s 1949 edition of Handbook for Hosts resembling a Caribbean version of the French 75.

death in the afternoon cocktail recipe
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Death in the Afternoon

The title of Hemingway’s 1932 novel Death in the Afternoon is both a direct reference to the gruesome finale of Spanish bullfights, and a more oblique one about his mediations…

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French 75

Named after a French gun used in World War I—a not-so-subtle nod to the drink's lethalness—the Champagne cocktail was made famous at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris in the…