Hurrumph! Maybe Drew Lazor could’ve taken a five minutes to send out a couple emails and ask around instead of cherry picking?
Again, I don’t mean to pick on Mr. Lazor—my perception is that this sort of thing happens a lot with Punch articles, and if they would address it, they’d level up.
One of the reasons I started the discussion about the cocktail canon was that I’m tired of people—including myself—dipping into problematic sources without enough context to go on and getting distracted by the shiny little (and sometimes, not so little) lies. If we can eventually evolve the canon discussion into a readers’ guide, that might be a good thing.