#348 Cheers! The Stories of Four Fabulous Cocktails

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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It's the happiest of hours! The tales of four fabulous cocktails invented or made famous in New York City's saloons, cocktail lounges, restaurants and hotels. Cocktails are more than alcoholic beverages; over the decades, they’ve been status signifiers, indulgences that show off exotic ingredients or elixirs displaying a bit of showmanship behind the bar. In this podcast, we recount the beginning days of four iconic alcoholic drinks: -- The Manhattan: How an elite Gilded Age social club may have invented the cocktail for a new governor of New York; -- The Bloody Mary: A Parisian delight, enjoyed by the leading lights of the Jazz Age, makes it way to one of New York's most famous hotels; -- The Martini: A drink of mysterious origin and potency becomes New York City's most popular drink -- and a curious lunchtime companion; -- The Cosmopolitan: Tracing the history of a new cocktail classic from Provincetown to San Francisco -- and into two of New York's most famous 1980s hangouts boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 348 of The Bowry Boys.
0:03.0	Cheers!
0:04.0	The stories of four fabulous cocktails.
0:08.0	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys!
0:10.0	Hey!
0:11.0	Support for The Bowry Boys is provided by our listeners.
0:14.0	Join us for as little as a dollar a month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowry Boys.
0:23.0	Hi there, welcome to The Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:26.0	And this is Tom Myers and Greg, you know, as we wind up the year 2020 here,
0:33.0	which has been a very trying, exhausting, surreal experience, I think, for all of us.
0:40.0	We just kind of thought that perhaps we could all use a drink, you know, or at least those of us who are 21 years and older could use drinks.
0:48.0	Yeah, so let's clarify.
0:50.0	But not just any drink, of course, a good stiff drink.
0:57.0	It is officially cocktail time, the happiest of all hours.
1:02.0	And we thought we'd look into the back stories of a few famous cocktails that were either invented or made famous here in New York.
1:12.0	And it seemed kind of like a seasonally appropriate way also to sort of wrap things up here.
1:18.0	You know, many of us aren't able to go out to holiday parties.
1:21.0	So we're bringing the party here, Greg.
1:23.0	Yes.
1:24.0	You and I are kind of the bartenders tonight.
1:26.0	Oh, yes.
1:27.0	So remember to tip your bartenders handsomely, please.
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