Drink in History: Whiskey Sour
“I’m perfectly capable of fixing my breakfast. As a matter of fact, I had a peanut butter sandwich and two Whiskey Sours,” says Richard Sherman to his secretary in the 1955 movie, The Seven Year Itch.
Lucky for Sherman, his liquid breakfast of champions is easy to make with only three elements: whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar. Historically this popular classic has been in and out of fashion; because it’s not too fancy and out, because it’s usually poorly made with inferior ingredients and is often associated with dive bars and casinos. But, wait. Perhaps it’s heyday is coming again.
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When I jumped ship from my cubicle-in-a-skyscraper job and joined the hospitality industry during what seemed to have been a peak of the cocktail craze, a lot of us didn’t realize just how little technical skills play a role in the grand scheme of “bartending.”