I agree. They also flat-out show where we came to be during the near-extinction event. I kind of want to put Bartender Magazine and Cunningham’s The Bartender’s Black Book on there. Is there a definitive reference to disco drinks?
The cocktail has now passed through two periods of rediscovery, and the first one was arguably less extreme, because cocktails marched on ably outside the U.S. during our Prohibition experiment. When we began digging back into them in the 1990s, they’d basically been out of sight for decades except for a smattering of pockets—Japan, Germany, Bilbao, etc.—most of which we (in the U.S.) weren’t aware of until we went looking.
While I’ve already added Conigliaro and Mautone to the list up top, I’ve been away from the others on your list for too long and feel too subjective about them. I need you or somebody else needs to make the case for each.