The Cocktail Book: A Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen

[martin]

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I think the book is also important because of its title, which signposts the beginning of the process whereby airlines can call a cup of ice, a splash of soda water and a mini-bottle of Dewar’s a “Cocktail.” It is the first book to use “cocktail” as a synecdoche for the whole world of mixed drinks.

Great point. Although the book is still organized such that cocktails are segregated from fizzes, punches etc. Do we know the first book to actually lump everything under “Cocktails” regardless of form? (Harry McElhone basically does it in 1922, I think.)