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Mary Kate Murray's avatar

I’d like to go and look at these buildings again, now with this information. I’d also like hot pie!

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Amy's avatar

Spiedies for me!

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Robert Simonson's avatar

And for me!

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Mary Kate Murray's avatar

Nice. I can’t argue with that!

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Frederic Yarm's avatar

Wow... I'd always attributed the Casino to Hugo Ensslin a few years later. I wonder if the Reminder was that influential or it was already a cocktail floating around the aether.

I definitely have seen the Grand Marnier Bijou before in print. The better known Chartreuse one is from Johnson but the Grand Marnier one I believe stems from Lawlor's The Mixicologist. Johnson has the better talking point of the 3 ingredients being the 3 gems.

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Robert Simonson's avatar

I'm glad the post was helpful. Yes, Ensslin's recipe for the Casino is the next earliest. I don't know if he saw Didier's book. It's possible. New York and Binghamton aren't far from each other. And Ensslin spent his final years working in Wilkes-Barre, which is just an hour from Binghamton. Didier was older, but they were roughly contemporaries.

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Amy's avatar

Good luck at the IACP this week !

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Robert Simonson's avatar

Thank you so much!

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Amy's avatar

This is so great! As a saloon keepers’ daughter, your historical research is remarkable and so interesting, especially when it’s those NOT in the great big, major cities… what’s just as interesting is the entrepreneurial spirit of M. Didier in hospitailty and boxing… this is such a wow!!

And that this is Bee’s Knees Week could not make me happier. Thank you Bar Hill Distillery, Robert and Mary Kate!

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Frank Caiafa's avatar

His Rob Roy variation is pretty far out and worth trying, just to say that you did!

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Lowell Edmunds's avatar

Great article on Didier.

Any plans for a history of the American bar?

Congratulations on your award.

Lowell (10/9/24)

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Robert Simonson's avatar

Do you mean the American Bar in London, or the American bar in general?

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Lowell Edmunds's avatar

The American bar from the beginning. I think that the bar originated in the U.S. What I don't know is whether anyone has written this history.

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Robert Simonson's avatar

That's a tall order! Definitely worth taking on. But I'm not sure I have the energy at present. I've written 7 books in less than 10 years. I need to recharge.

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