Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Cocktail of the Week: The Aviation

Cocktail of the Week: The Aviation

Fly the friendly skies with this pre-Prohibition drink

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Kathryn Smith
Jun 23, 2021
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Americans are flying again, swarming airports, desperate to go ANYWHERE after more than a year of pandemic restrictions. In tribute to the revival of air travel, this week’s tipple is the Aviation, a cocktail invented in 1916 by a New York bartender, Hugo Ensslin, and included in his book Recipes for Mixed Drinks. It is both simple and challenging to ma…

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