The Ideal Bartender - Tom Bullock’s Legacy
On Into the Barchive, we dig through the footnotes, forgotten names, and overlooked pages of cocktail history to better understand what’s actually in our glass. And for Black History Month, we’re spotlighting a figure whose name deserves to sit alongside Jerry Thomas and Harry Johnson.
Tom Bullock.
Bullock was a working bartender at the highest levels of American hospitality in the early 1900s, and in 1917 he published The Ideal Bartender — the first cocktail book written by an African American and one of the clearest snapshots we have of American bar culture just before Prohibition.
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