Stork Club Bar Book
Drinking Through 1946’s The Stork Club Bar Book
In "Drink Police," we revisit bygone bar manuals to see how they've withstood the test of time. This edition: The Stork Club Bar Book (c. 1946), a window into the…
- story: Marian Bull
- photos: Eric Medsker
American Beauty
In The Stork Club Bar Book, Lucius Beebe recommends drinking this little fruity, minty cocktail at noon, to “abate the grief of a stormy morning.”
Rocky Mountain Cooler
This low-ABV cocktail from The Stork Club Bar Book is super tart—think SweetTart.
Niesen Buzz Bomb
This was the preferred concoction of Gertrude Niesen, an actress and singer and frequent patron of Manhattan’s Stork Club in the 1930s and ‘40s, and it’s a hell of a…
