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From: sales sales AT phoebesnowco DOT com
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 10:42:56 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) Why You Should Be Drinking a Gin Alexander
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Several years ago I found the attached Phoebe Snow cocktail.

Tim

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Gary Kazin wrote:

>
> Some cocktails never get any respect from anybody: they’re created, born,
> spawned, whatever, and placed lovingly before the public, which gently
> pushes them back across the bar and says as one, “I guess, I’ll have the
> usual.”
> ...
> The Alexander cocktail—gin
> > 18th-century-england>
> or brandy, crème de cacao and heavy cream—was invented in the early 1910s,
> at, as best as can be determined, Rector’s restaurant in New York. Rector’s
> was one of Broadway’s famous “lobster palaces,” huge barns where
> fashionable men and women flocked to see and be seen while irrigating
> themselves liberally with Champagne and dining on the kinds of high-value
> foodstuffs that proclaimed to anyone who was looking that they weren’t part
> of the poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free, or at least weren’t
> any longer.
>
> Some officials of the Lackawanna Railroad, the story goes, booked a banquet
> at the restaurant, and bar manager Troy Alexander, who worked at Rectors
> from 1904 until 1913, wanted to come up with a special cocktail to start
> things off—special cocktails being as important to 1910s lobster palaces as
> they are to today’s farm-to-table chef-curated dining laboratories. The
> Lackawanna’s advertising at the time featured a young lady they called
> “Phoebe Snow,” who always wore pure white while riding the railroad (the
> Lackawanna used smokeless coal; if it didn’t she would have arrived at her
> destinations soiled and unclean). Alexander, therefore, wanted a drink that
> was pure white. His solution: gin, white crème de cacao and heavy cream,
> shaken together. Instant success. (There are other claims to the drink’s
> creation, but this one, first advanced by a correspondent to Walter
> Winchell’s column in 1929, is the best-documented one.)
>
> Full article:
> http://www.thedailybeast.com/why-you-should-be-drinking-a-gin-alexander
>
>
>
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> Gary Kazin
> DL&W Milepost 35.7
> Rockaway, NJ
>
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[image: The Phoebe Snow Company]


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