How Classic Cocktails Were Lost—and Found | Ted Haigh
This is a Vintage episode from 2006.
Why This Episode Matters
How America’s cocktail golden age flourished from the Gilded Age through Prohibition and how it eventually gave way to highballs and vodka.
Why pre-Prohibition whiskey was stronger, more aromatic and dramatically different from much of what followed.
How cocktail historians reconstruct forgotten drinks using antique bar guides, vintage bottles and nearly vanished ingredients.
Why Ted Haigh believes cocktails should engage an adult palate rather than conceal alcohol beneath sweetness.
Banter
Mark Pascal and Francis Schott explore…
The skinny
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