Cocktail of the Week: The Preakness

A forgotten cocktail from 1936

Last weekend I had the pleasure of staying at the Mohonk Mountain House, a lovely resort hotel near New Paltz, New York that has been owned and operated by the Smiley family for 152 years. It was started by twin Quaker brothers Albert and Alfred Smiley when they were vacationing on Mohonk Lake in 1869 and decided to buy an existing ten-room inn and tave…