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Stork Club Bar Book

Cocktails

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
recipe

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.”

  • story: Joanna Harkins
  • photo: Eric Medsker
recipe

Rocky Mountain Cooler

This low-ABV cocktail from The Stork Club Bar Book is super tart—think SweetTart.

  • story: joanna_h
  • photo: Eric Medsker
recipe

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…

  • story: Joanna Harkins
  • photo: Eric Medsker
The Resurgence of the Lion’s Tail
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The Resurgence of the Lion’s Tail

How a quirky Prohibition-era bourbon cocktail came to manifest on U.S. drink menus right now.

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