Comments on: DOTW: Sherry Cobbler

By: Stephen Evans

Stephen Evans — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:05:46 +0000

Am I happy to have found this awesome, beautifully designed, written, and smart site! Next spring the topic of my Freshman Honors English class is “Americans in Paris,” and our base text is the recent, awesome anthology edited by Adam Gopnik (The New Yorker). Included is an excerpt from Mark Twain, _The Innocents Abroad_ (1869). Twain and a few gentleman American companions ferreted out a bar in Paris that purportedly specialized in the following: “All Manner of American Drinks Artistically Prepared.” It was a ruse, to say the least, as the bartender was clueless about a “whisky-straight,” then a “sherry cobbler,” and he knew nothing about a “Santa Cruz Punch,” an “Eye-Opener,” a “Stone-Fence,” or an “Earthquake.” “It was plain he was a wicked imposter,” Twain writes.

Sorry to be tedious, just hoping this might pique your interest. The reason I searched for your wonderful site was because I thought this little topic—tracing the origins of the little-known American cocktails mentioned in the reading—might be an interesting mini-research paper for some student.

Again, thank you, and salud!

Stephen Evans
Dept. of English, The University of Kansas

By: Garrett

Garrett — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:23:35 +0000

Ohh, I have all this at home! Shibby. Drinks tonight are so on.

By: tiare

tiare — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:26:08 +0000

I join in there, you should really write a book!

By: Lucy

Lucy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:32:33 +0000

This is something I will try soon, Anita. Thank you for your wonderful drink recipes. Please write a book.

By: MPG

MPG — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:26:53 +0000

This looks so great and I love learning about the history of drinks…must get up and open my bar now

By: Tartelette

Tartelette — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:18:05 +0000

Love this post!! Forwarded it to hubby the History professor who wanted to read it outloud in class. Did not quite fit with the day’s topic though
Love the cocktail!

By: EB

EB — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:41:58 +0000

And who doesn’t love libations?

By: caviar and codfish

caviar and codfish — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:45:56 +0000

This month’s edition of Mixology Monday, hosted by Dinah and Joe at Bibulo.us, focuses on 19th century libations.

That is just too cool.

By: bb

bb — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:00:56 +0000

As if the name wasn’t enough to get me to try it, you had to add a great back story. Well done!

By: cookiecrumb

cookiecrumb — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:38:35 +0000

How do you cobble together all this history?
Sounds divine.