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EDDY*
EMERALD
Cocktails
One-third Gordon Gin
One-third French Vermuth
One-third Orange Juice
Frappe
A tribute to Erin's Isle.
EMERSON
Dash of Orange Bitters
One-half Italian Vermuth
One-half Irish Whiskey
Stir
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I
The Emerson Cocktail was not so called out of compli-
ment to the Sage of Concord, who passed on ignorant that
another of the name would one day arise to discover or in–
vent a more potent remedy for the world's ills-or at least
one of them-than a lifetime's philosophic utterances.Nay,
it would not be mere guesswork to suggest that the profits
of just one year's sales of Isaac
L.
Emerson's headache cure
far exceeded the sum of the royalties received by Ralph
Waldo Emerson during his lifetime, or his heirs afterward.
And it was Isaac L. who was "commemorated," as it were,
by the Emerson Cocktail.
·
Emerson was a Baltimore druggist. According to the
story long ago current among old-timers who haunt the
clubs in the Mt. Vernon Place district, the invention or dis–
covery of the remedy, while one of a train of numerous, if
sometimes expediential, experiments, was nevertheless
accidental.
The shop of Emerson, runs this saga, was one of a large
number of small establishments where medicines were dis–
pensed in the Monumental City. That was in a day when
drug stores did not sell everything else but drugs. Like more
than one other Baltimorean of the time, Emerson occasion–
ally dropped into some corner establishment with swinging
shutter-doors, and the meaning of the word "souse" was
not beyond his grasp.
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