
John Tremain
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Trapped in a world he never made. I’m here for the beverages. Working my way through the Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, entry by random entry
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Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails pg 393 contr David Wondrich jigger small and handy liquid measure used in constructing mixed drinks. First appear in the 1870s. The name is an Americanism for “a new device that otherwise lacks a name” (it is related to “thingamajig”).




Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails pg 112 contr David Wondrich Brigham, Peter Bent (1807-1877) set the canon of American drinks for a generation in 1842 when the extensive list of “Fancy Drinks” offered at his Oyster Saloon in Boston caught the attention of the press.




