The last few days, I’ve been running around like the proverbial decapitated chicken, but don’t suppose for a moment that I haven’t been thinking about and drinking Manhattans in my customary fashion. Below are a few links I happened to like, in no particular order.
The great gaz regan on the great whiskey potion.
And of course you gotta have Wondrich too.
Oh yeah—and Robert Hess has a video.
Then there’s the Wall Street Journal.
None of these mentions that story about Jennie Jerome having invented the Manhattan, presumably because she didn’t and it seems barely worthy of a footnote now. But it turns up now and then—I saw it in the first bar book I read—so you might as well have it. You can say that you read it in The NYT so it must be true that it’s not true. And there’s a variation at Churchill, appropriately, which is named after her, and more of a Brooklyn anyway.
armstrong
19 hours ago
Allow me to add one more!
ReplyDeleteHere is Jason Wilson, the spirits writer for the Washington Post, on why the Manhattan is easily his favorite cocktail: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/07/08/ST2008070802290.html