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Wednesday 19/06/13

IT'S ALBERT STEVENS CROCKETT'S BIRTHDAY

Chanticleer Cocktail

The "dean of correspondents", the ultimate old soak, a connoisseur who preserved some of the...

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The "dean of correspondents", the ultimate old soak, a connoisseur who preserved some of thegreat pre-Prohibition cocktails in his Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book, Albert Stevens Crockett would have turned 140 today.

Although, sadly, the gentleman died a stripling, aged only 96. Described by HL Mencken as "a high authority on bar life in America", Crockett knew everyone who was anyone in his New York, from millionaires to bartenders.

He preserved recipes and etymologies for a stack of cocktails, from the Gibson to the Bronx and Bobby Burns, as well as lesser-known gems like the Ampersand and the Tip-Top.

A good seventy years before the profession of cocktail historian existed, Crocketts was delving into minutiae such as the first name of the Colonel who created the Rickey, and chatting to Johnny Solon about the Bronx.

We are toasting him with one of the best recipes he preserved, a Chanticleer Cocktail.

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