Cocktail Confidential: The Secret History of Mixology
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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The Origin of Cocktails
Cocktail was originally just one drink - bitters mixed with a sugar and boots. Usuallyi was, you drink it for a hangover, because the bitters were supposed to help your stomach. So how did they get into a coktail? Well, there was this british apothecary who premixed bitter herbs and alcohol so that you could pour it into your wine or beer. This gets the name cocktail attached to it, which was a word to mean, like, stick your tail up. It will wake you up and make you frisky. The idea of in a little bitters and spirits was a pick me up, an eye opener, a corpse reviver
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