Ted Haigh

Revision as of 20:42, 31 March 2006

also known as Doctor Cocktail.

Biography

Ted Haigh (1956- )

Ted Haigh's Website

Studied historic cocktails from the late 1960s. Began acquiring bar guides in the late 1970s. Amassed one of the largest collections of historic cocktail constituents in the world by the mid-1990s.

Became America Online's Food & Drink Network's Cocktail & Spirits Maven in 1996

Worked with John Fee of Fee Brothers to recreate peach bitters in 1998-99.

Worked with Fee Brothers again in 2002 to produce a Falernum syrup flavor best suited to the heyday of tiki drinks.

In 2004 wrote the book Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails, published by Quarry Press.

In January 2005, wrote, designed, configured and mounted the inaugural New Orleans exhibit for The Museum of the American Cocktail, and was elected to their Board of Directors.

In 2005 Haigh's historical examination of the Singapore Sling was published in Mixologist: The Journal of the American Cocktail.

In 2006 designed, augmented, configured and mounted the Las Vegas exhibit for The Museum of the American Cocktail.

Currently working on several new cocktail-oriented book projects.

Ted Haigh Quote

"It’s not about vodka, it’s about the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol and Firearm’s definition of vodka. In Eastern Europe, vodka can be aged, nobody in Eastern Europe ever said vodka should be flavorless, that is something that we Americans are stuck on it. It sucks. The flavorlessness of vodka is what is going to turn a lot of the kids into alcoholics, not the good kind of alcoholics, the bad kind. If all they’re drinking is something that tastes like candy, what do you expect? They can’t even tolerate the bite of a good rye whisky." - Modern Drunkard Article.

Cocktail Creations of Ted Haigh

Lemony Snicket Cocktail

External Quotes

• Modern Drunkard Magazine Article - Ted Haigh