{"id":937,"date":"2008-01-10T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2008\/01\/long-dead-yet-s.html"},"modified":"2008-01-10T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T12:25:16","slug":"long-dead-yet-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Long-Dead, Yet Still Bringing Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradertiki.com\/cocktail-books-in-the-public-domain\/\">Trader Tiki offers an invaluable roundup of some old cocktail books<\/a> that have passed into the public domain.&nbsp; With links to full-text PDF versions, even.&nbsp; What a great resource to peruse.<\/p>\n<p>Not-so-incidentally, one of those books is the grandaddy of them all:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Thomas\">Jerry Thomas<\/a>&#8216; 1862 magnum opus <em>How To Mix Drinks: Or,The Bon-Vivant&#8217;s Companion<\/em>, the first bartending book ever published.&nbsp; (I&#8217;d be remiss if I didn&#8217;t note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartofdrink.com\/book\/\">the book has been available on The Art of Drink<\/a> as a painstakingly transcribed online version.)<\/p>\n<p>And incidentally, as every cocktail geek knows, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/31\/dining\/31cock.html\">a biography of Thomas by David Wondrich<\/a> came out not too long ago.&nbsp; (It looks great, but I confess that I&#8217;m a bad cocktail geek and haven&#8217;t yet read it, though it <em>is<\/em> on my mammoth to-read pile.)&nbsp; And a hot tip I just received from an unimpeachable source:&nbsp; Wondrich will be appearing &#8212; and making cocktails &#8212; on NBC&#8217;s &quot;Late Night with Conan O&#8217;Brien&quot; tomorrow (Friday) night.&nbsp; I look forward to checking it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trader Tiki offers an invaluable roundup of some old cocktail books that have passed into the public domain.&nbsp; With links to full-text PDF versions, even.&nbsp; What a great resource to peruse. Not-so-incidentally, one of those books is the grandaddy of them all:&nbsp; Jerry Thomas&#8216; 1862 magnum opus How To Mix Drinks: Or,The Bon-Vivant&#8217;s Companion, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seen-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}