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The Cocktails of the World
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the Cocktail is America's gift
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to the worId of drinking, other na-
tioBs have contributed many to the
large flock of popular concoctions classified
under the common title of "Cocktails." Ameri–
can hotels and barmen have received credit
for many of these mixtures originating in
foreign countries, and have renamed them.
The international barmen 'have carried to
America the best of the old-world art of mix–
ing. The foreign mixtures are uniformly .
"smoother," more palatable and incidentally
less harmful.
All the "dazers" or "shockers" are hereby
dedicated to the American Prohibitionist, who
by his resort to force appears to have defeated
the very purpose which he so earnestly and so
unwisely set out to accomplish.
Serving the Cocktail
The cocktail should be served as an appe–
tizer-before the meal and always with the
food-bit. Served just before the meal, the
food-bit with the cocktail takes on the charac-
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