Harry Craddock

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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."
 
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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Craddock worked at the Savoy Hotel until at least 1935.
  
==EXILED BARTENDER WRITES FRIENDS HERE==
 
  
Harry Craddock Ready to Come Back 'When
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Craddock retired in 1947, at the age of 74, while working at the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London.
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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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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"Graduatete" of Washington Bars Prepares for Tourist Rush in London. EXPECT RECORD INVASION
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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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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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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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Revision as of 11:34, 1 July 2006

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."

Craddock worked at the Savoy Hotel until at least 1935.


Craddock retired in 1947, at the age of 74, while working at the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London.

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