Cocktail Confidential: The Secret History of Mixology
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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The History of the Old Fashioned Spirits
The history of rum is fascinating and goes back probably a thousand years, even longer than we ever thought. The old fashioned was often over sweetened and made further flacid with the addition of a muddled orange wheel and the smashed remains of a process merocino cherry. Some say that this practice started during prohibition to mask the taste of the bad booths.
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