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Harry Craddock wrote the Savoy Cocktail Book which was published in 1930.
 
Harry Craddock wrote the Savoy Cocktail Book which was published in 1930.
  
Harry Craddock, the legendary barman at the Savoy in London, famously said that the best way to drink a cocktail was "quickly, while it's laughing at you."
 
  
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==Historical References==
  
EXILED BARTENDER WRITES FRIENDS HERE; Harry Craddock Ready to Come Back 'When
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==="Middletown Daily Times", (1926)===
Wanted' With 280 Kinds of Drinks.
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New York Times. New York, N.Y.: Jun 3, 1926. pg. 16, 1 pgs
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Harry Craddock, once bartender at the Hoffman House and later at the Holland
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"For those who recollect torrid evenings in the blazing zone of highest visibility and the tired eves and far-away look of the next morning when they festooned themselves before the old Hoffman House bar for Surecase of morrow, Harry Craddock was a beneficient Santa Claus. If you are going to London, visit the Savoy. He'll fix you up."
House, who has been mixing cocktails at the Savoy Hotel bar in London since
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1920, has sent to former patrons in New York a list of 172 items classified as
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cocktails, coolers, daisies, fizzes, flips, highballs, punches, rickeys,
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smashes, sours, liqueurs, cordials and frappes which, he wrote, he hoped to be
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able ...
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100,000 COCKTAILS PLANNED BY MIXER
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==="Marion Star", (1927)===
"Graduatete" of Washington Bars Prepares for Tourist Rush in London. EXPECT
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RECORD INVASION Savoy Representative Tells of New Silver-Trimmed Suites' in
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"Millionaires' Row," Expect Record Tourist Year. American Women Exacting.
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The Washington Post- Washington, D.C.
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Date: Mar 25, 1923
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"Harry Craddock, who learned the art of cocktail shaker behind Capital bars in  
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"The last legal cocktail in America is reputed to have been mixed at the old Holland House on Fifth Avenue by a Harry Craddock. Word drifts back from London that Craddock is now frosting the shakers at the Savoy. He took a boat the next morning pouting and has never returned."
pre-Volstead days, has announced he will assemble more thin 100,000 cocktails
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this summer for thirsty patrons of the Savoy hotel bar in London, according to
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R. Temple, an official of the Savoy chain of hotels, at present on a flying
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==="Helena Independent", (1934)===
trip to America to pick up the latest thing in hostelry luxury, and who
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yesterday was the guest of the Willard hotel."
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"Harry Craddock, who went to London's Savoy when prohibition began and has been teaching the English about ice ever since, writes his hundreds of recipes, and something about wine in "The Savoy Cocktail Book" (Simon and Schuster). The way to drink a cocktail, he says, is quickly, while it's still laughing at you. Wines, of course, merely smile. They are for the man who takes time. We don't have many of those."
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==="The Fresno Bee", (1934)===
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"New York Day by Day" by O. O. McIntyre.
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"The Ritz is to try out an international exchange of bartenders in its pink glowing cocktail rooms, like the swapping of professors at various colleges. First will come Frank of the Paris Ritz for a few months. Then Harry Craddock of the London Savoy, August of the Adlon in Berlin, and so on. All have mixed drinks for an international clientele."
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==="The Lethbridge Herald", (1947)===
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"Harry Craddock, 74-year-old bartender who claims to have invented 250 cocktails, including the "White Lady" and "Paradise" has retired from the bar of the Dorchester hotel in London."
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==Cocktail Creations==
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Latest revision as of 19:35, 1 July 2006

Harry Craddock wrote the Savoy Cocktail Book which was published in 1930.


Contents

[edit] Historical References

[edit] "Middletown Daily Times", (1926)

"For those who recollect torrid evenings in the blazing zone of highest visibility and the tired eves and far-away look of the next morning when they festooned themselves before the old Hoffman House bar for Surecase of morrow, Harry Craddock was a beneficient Santa Claus. If you are going to London, visit the Savoy. He'll fix you up."


[edit] "Marion Star", (1927)

"The last legal cocktail in America is reputed to have been mixed at the old Holland House on Fifth Avenue by a Harry Craddock. Word drifts back from London that Craddock is now frosting the shakers at the Savoy. He took a boat the next morning pouting and has never returned."


[edit] "Helena Independent", (1934)

"Harry Craddock, who went to London's Savoy when prohibition began and has been teaching the English about ice ever since, writes his hundreds of recipes, and something about wine in "The Savoy Cocktail Book" (Simon and Schuster). The way to drink a cocktail, he says, is quickly, while it's still laughing at you. Wines, of course, merely smile. They are for the man who takes time. We don't have many of those."


[edit] "The Fresno Bee", (1934)

"New York Day by Day" by O. O. McIntyre.

"The Ritz is to try out an international exchange of bartenders in its pink glowing cocktail rooms, like the swapping of professors at various colleges. First will come Frank of the Paris Ritz for a few months. Then Harry Craddock of the London Savoy, August of the Adlon in Berlin, and so on. All have mixed drinks for an international clientele."


[edit] "The Lethbridge Herald", (1947)

"Harry Craddock, 74-year-old bartender who claims to have invented 250 cocktails, including the "White Lady" and "Paradise" has retired from the bar of the Dorchester hotel in London."


[edit] Cocktail Creations

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