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Title: The Ideal Bartender

Author: Tom Bullock

Release Date: September 17, 2004 [eBook #13487]

Language: English

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THE IDEAL BARTENDER

by

TOM BULLOCK

1917

DEDICATED

TO THOSE WHO ENJOY SNUG CLUB ROOMS, THAT THEY MAY LEARN THE ART OF
PREPARING FOR THEMSELVES WHAT IS GOOD.

IS IT ANY WONDER THAT MANKIND STANDS OPEN-MOUTHED BEFORE THE BARTENDER,
CONSIDERING THE MYSTERIES AND MARVELS OF AN ART THAT BORDERS ON MAGIC?
RECIPES FOUND IN THIS BOOK HAVE BEEN COMPOSED AND COLLECTED, TRIED AND
TESTED, IN A QUARTER-CENTURY OF EXPERIENCE BY TOM BULLOCK OF THE ST.
LOUIS COUNTRY CLUB.

A testimonial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which appeared in the
form of an editorial, Wednesday evening, May 28, 1913, at a time when
Col. Roosevelt was vindicating, by a libel suit, his reputation for
sobriety and temperance.

Colonel Roosevelt's fatal admission that he drank just a part of one
julep at the St. Louis Country Club will come very near losing his
case.

Who was ever known to drink just a part of one of Tom's? Tom, than
whom there is no greater mixologist of any race, color or condition
of servitude, was taught the art of the julep by no less than Marse
Lilburn G. McNair, the father of the julep. In fact, the very cup
that Col. Roosevelt drank it from belonged to Governor McNair, the
first Governor of Missouri, the great-grandfather of Marse Lilburn
and the great-great-grandfather of the julep.

As is well known, the Country Club mint originally sprang on the
slopes of Parnassus and was transplanted thence to the bosky banks
of Culpeper Creek, Gaines County, Ky., and thence to our own
environs; while the classic distillation with which Tom mingles it
to produce his chief d'oeuvre is the oft-quoted liquefied soul of a
Southern moonbeam fal