Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Cocktail of the Week: The Shirley Templeton

Cocktail of the Week: The Shirley Templeton

Child actress's signature drink...with a grown-up twist

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Kathryn Smith
Jul 07, 2021
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There are all kinds of stories about how the kiddie drink the Shirley Temple was invented. One says it happened at the Brown Derby, when Shirley requested a special cocktail when her mother and father ordered their adult beverages (picture below taken there). But in her memoir Child Star (a great read, by the way), Shirley Temple Black dismisses this st…

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