| Five Hundred SixtySecond in the Famous People (FP) Series - Harry Craddock |
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Craddock was one of the most famous cocktail barmen of the 1920s and 1930s. Craddock’s “The Savoy Cocktail Book” was published in 1930, and is still in print today. Craddock invented a number of classic cocktails possibly including the White Lady, and popularised the Dry Martini.
"Middletown Daily Times", (1926)
"For those who recollect torrid evenings in the blazing zone of highest visibility and the tired eves and far-away look of the next morning when they festooned themselves before the old Hoffman House bar for Surecase of morrow, Harry Craddock was a beneficient Santa Claus. If you are going to London, visit the Savoy. He'll fix you up."
"Marion Star", (1927)
"The last legal cocktail in America is reputed to have been mixed at the old Holland House on Fifth Avenue by a Harry Craddock. Word drifts back from London that Craddock is now frosting the shakers at the Savoy. He took a boat the next morning pouting and has never returned."
"Helena Independent", (1934)
"Harry Craddock, who went to London's Savoy when prohibition began and has been teaching the English about ice ever since, writes his hundreds of recipes, and something about wine in "The Savoy Cocktail Book" (Simon and Schuster). The way to drink a cocktail, he says, is quickly, while it's still laughing at you. Wines, of course, merely smile. They are for the man who takes time. We don't have many of those."
"The Lethbridge Herald", (1947)
"Harry Craddock, 74-year-old bartender who claims to have invented 250 cocktails, including the "White Lady" and "Paradise" has retired from the bar of the Dorchester hotel in London."
Look it up. You'll find it all in there. Here at the Savoy Forreston Cemetery (okay, so I embellished), you can find a container just about the size of an unexploded baby soda bottle preform. In fact, it's so close in size to one, you'll swear it is one. And you would be right. This little jewel is tethered to hold it in place, so please feel free to "tie one on" once you're finished. I know that's what I did....
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