Harry Craddock
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Wanted' With 280 Kinds of Drinks. | Wanted' With 280 Kinds of Drinks. | ||
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Revision as of 19:37, 14 June 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."
EXILED BARTENDER WRITES FRIENDS HERE
Harry Craddock Ready to Come Back 'When Wanted' With 280 Kinds of Drinks. New York Times. New York, N.Y.: Jun 3, 1926. pg. 16, 1 pgs
Harry Craddock, once bartender at the Hoffman House and later at the Holland House, who has been mixing cocktails at the Savoy Hotel bar in London since 1920, has sent to former patrons in New York a list of 172 items classified as cocktails, coolers, daisies, fizzes, flips, highballs, punches, rickeys, smashes, sours, liqueurs, cordials and frappes which, he wrote, he hoped to be able ...
100,000 COCKTAILS PLANNED BY MIXER
"Graduatete" of Washington Bars Prepares for Tourist Rush in London. EXPECT RECORD INVASION
Savoy Representative Tells of New Silver-Trimmed Suites' in "Millionaires' Row," Expect Record Tourist Year. American Women Exacting.
The Washington Post- Washington, D.C. Date: Mar 25, 1923
"Harry Craddock, who learned the art of cocktail shaker behind Capital bars in pre-Volstead days, has announced he will assemble more thin 100,000 cocktails this summer for thirsty patrons of the Savoy hotel bar in London, according to R. Temple, an official of the Savoy chain of hotels, at present on a flying trip to America to pick up the latest thing in hostelry luxury, and who yesterday was the guest of the Willard hotel."
