Born in Toronto as Gladys Marie Smith, Mary Pickford became the biggest celebrity of the Silent Era. She came to be known as “The Girl with the Golden Curls” and “America’s Sweetheart.” Mary was possibly the first celebrity to shrewdly make sure her public persona as America’s Sweetheart stayed in tact. She was never pictured… Continue reading Prohibition Era Cocktails: The Mary Pickford
Tag: Friday Drink Recipes
Prohibition Era Cocktails: Black Velvet
It’s Friday the 13th and what better drink to have on a day like today than a Black Velvet. This drink originates way before Prohibition. It’s said that after Prince Albert died in 1861 the steward at the Brook’s Club in London wanted everything in mourning, even the champagne. So we have this half Guinness… Continue reading Prohibition Era Cocktails: Black Velvet
The American Pulps Drink Like A Character Series
Because any excuse to drink is a good excuse we’ve started a series called, Drink Like a Character. Whether it’s a drink from a TV Show (the Flaming Moe perhaps?), a book, or a movie – we want to make it. Regardless of genre or taste, we’re not picky. If you’ve got any requests, email… Continue reading The American Pulps Drink Like A Character Series
Prohibition Era Cocktails: The Daiquiri
It’s widely accepted that Jennings Stockton Cox is the man who invented the Daiquiri in the Cuban town of, well, Daiquirií in 1898. But it was the bartender at the El Floridita, Constantino Ribalaigua Vert who crafted the drink for Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gary Cooper and of course Ernest Hemingway, made El Floridita in… Continue reading Prohibition Era Cocktails: The Daiquiri
Drink Like A Character: Champagne Cocktail Recipe – The Big Sleep (1939)
Now I know that’s not a scene from The Big Sleep but it’s one of my favorites from The Godfather Part II and he mentions champagne cocktails so there ya go. Chandler liked his Gimlet’s but Marlowe’s client General Sternwood reminiscences of his champagne cocktails while in a hot house wearing a wool blanket in… Continue reading Drink Like A Character: Champagne Cocktail Recipe – The Big Sleep (1939)
The John Barrymore Pimm’s Cup
John Barrymore is probably known more for being Drew Barrymore’s grandfather today than anything else. Which is unfortunate because he was considered the greatest actor of the early twentieth century in theater and on the silver screen. His performance as Hamlet on Broadway and in London is considered the best ever. He was the lead… Continue reading The John Barrymore Pimm’s Cup
Drink Like A Character: Gimlet Recipe, The Long Good-bye (1953)
AKA the Raymond Chandler Gimlet “We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor’s and drank gimlets. ‘They don’t know how to make them here,’ he said. ‘What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real gimlet is half gin… Continue reading Drink Like A Character: Gimlet Recipe, The Long Good-bye (1953)
Drink Like A Character: Gin Rickey, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice. Gatsby took up his drink.“They certainly look cool,” he said, with visible tension. We drank in long, greedy swallows.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Entirely out of context, doesn’t that just sound like peer pressure to you? If you changed it up and… Continue reading Drink Like A Character: Gin Rickey, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Drink Like A Character: The Vesper Martini – James Bond (1953)
“Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?”– James Bond, Casino Royale (1953) Unfortunately you can’t make a proper Vesper Martini because they don’t make Kina Lillet anymore. You’d have to settle for… Continue reading Drink Like A Character: The Vesper Martini – James Bond (1953)