1946 The Stock Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe

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Bijou:

oz.

gin

oz. Chartreuse

oz. Italian vermouth

Decorate with cherry. Twist of lemon peel

over drink. Stir and serve in 3 oz. cocktail

glass.

Although of compa_ratively recent origin and evolution, the Zom–

bie is a drink the precise source of which, like its exact economy,

is subject to controversy. The author first encountered it as an aid

to practical alcoholism in the celebrated premises of Trader Vic

in Oakland, California, and almost "immediately after that in a

bamboo bar frequented by

script writers in search of

inspiration to more than customary intellectual chaos. It may very

well, as advertised, have been imp6rted from far island places or

it may just as plausibly have been the fevered brain child of Trader

Vic himself, an opportunist whose ethics are unmuffled by any

consideration of human well-being, but, whencever it came, the

Zombie exploded into fullest flower at the NewYorkWorld's Fair.

It was the principal stock in trade of the Hurricane Bar in Flush–

ing Meadows and was retailed one to a customer at a dollar a

sample by a management at once thrifty and mindful of municipal ·

ordinances. Actually it was not as lethal as advertised, but ex–

pediency will limit its consumption by the inexperienced, as the

variety and proofs of the rums involved are both chancy elements

. th h

k .

in e uman rec onmg.

As will he apparent from the complexity of its ingredients, a

Zombie is subject to multiple variations. This is the way Cookie can

be persuaded to compound them for patrons with the most reassur–

ing references:

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