Jake Burger is a keen amateur cocktail historian, with a career in the drinks industry spanning four decades, as part of the team responsible for creating Jake’s Bar & Grill in Leeds, The Portobello Star and The Distillery on London’s Portobello Road, and The Ginstitute, England’s preeminent educational gin experience. Jake has long sunk himself into the history of the cocktail and the mixed drink, and this
is his first book on the subject.
Tracking down the origin story of one particular cocktail or another is rarely a simple endeavour. There are but a handful of drinks whose history is well documented and beyond question, even in the pantheon of so-called modern classics. Yes Ben Reed invented the Pineapple Martini at The Met Bar...
Published 03/12/21
More so even than the Martini or the cocktail itself, there has been debate about the origins of the Bloody Mary. Countless theories abound regarding who, where, when, and what made up the original Bloody Mary, and quite how it got its name. Furthermore, there are at least two drinks which very...
Published 03/11/21