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1806: earliest definition of ‘cocktail’ (mixed drink with a spirit base)

19th Sep 2019.Reading time 13 minutes.

13 May 1806—The Balance, and Columbian Repository (Hudson, New York, USA)—“a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters”

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notes on the second-earliest mentions of a drink called ‘cocktail’

17th Sep 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

USA, 1803—associated with a lounger—precise meaning of ‘cocktail’ is not defined, but the word denotes an alcoholic drink apparently taken as hair of the dog

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notes on the earliest mention of a drink called ‘cocktail’

15th Sep 2019.Reading time 13 minutes.

UK, 1798—‘cocktail’ explained as being “vulgarly called ginger”—perhaps from the use of ‘ginger’ to denote a cock with red plumage

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Who invented—and named—the Bloody Mary?

7th Jul 2018.Reading time 17 minutes.

It seems that the American comedian George Jessel (1898-1981) invented the Bloody Mary and named it after Mary Brown Warburton (1896-1937).

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the Bloody Mary before the name existed

22nd Jun 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Unnamed cocktails consisting of vodka and tomato juice became fashionable in the 1930s before the name ‘Bloody Mary’ was coined in November 1939.

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