The old fashioned the story of the worlds first classic cocktail with recipes and lore simonson robert krieger daniel on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers the old fashioned the story of the worlds first classic cocktail with recipes and lore. A complete history of one of the worlds most iconic cocktails now the poster child of the modern cocktail revival with fifty recipes for classic variations as well as contemporary updates no single cocktail is as iconic as beloved or as discussed and fought over as the old fashioned. The recipes get weirder and weirder as they go along by the end all they have in common with the classic old fashioned is bitters and a large piece of ice quick informative interesting read half the book is the history of the drink the other half is recipes for the drink. The old fashioned is the spirited delightfully unexpected story of this renowned and essential drink its birth as the ur cocktail in the nineteenth century darker days in the throes of prohibition re ascension in the 1950s and 1960s as portrayed and re popularized by don draper on mad men and renaissance as the star of the contemporary . The old fashioned the story of the worlds first classic cocktail with recipes and lore february 22 2020 comment a complete history of one of the worlds most iconic cocktails now the poster child of the modern cocktail revival with fifty recipes for classic variations as well as contemporary updates