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PREFACE
From time immemorial,man has sought ways and means
of pleasing his palate with food and drink.
This book is dedicated to the legions who seek recipes
to bring cheer and conviviality into any gathering and who
wish to present to their guests, and furnish for themselves,
the beverages which will please the modern palate as did
the nectars of old please those of the ancients.
Recipes set down in the pages which follow have been
chosen with care and consideration for the taste of every
person who partakes of so-called "mixed drinks." The
author has searched the highways and by-ways of the world
to gather into these pages the very best that the greatest
concocters of "mixed drinks" have to offer.
If each recipe, as set forth, is carefully carried out,
the resulting compound will be found not only delectable
hut delightful to every taste.
It has been the honest intent of the author to set forth
the widest selection of mixed drinks or cocktails carried
between any two book covers in the world.
If this book pleases the reader and fulfills its purpose
as a purveyor of ways and means to bring forth palatable
and refreshing results, the author feels well repaid for his
long and tedious work.
George A. Lurie.