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(FOOD and DRINK.) Bullock, Tom. The Ideal Bartender [cover title]. Introduction by G. H. Walker. Small 8vo, original gilt-pictorial cloth. (St.
(FOOD and DRINK.) Bullock, Tom. The Ideal Bartender [cover title]. Introduction by G. H. Walker. Small 8vo, original gilt-pictorial cloth. (St. Louis: Buxton & Skinner for the author), 1917
- Notes: first edition of the first bartender's book written by an African-American. Tom Bullock was the bartender at the Pendennis Country Club in Louisville, later working at the St. Louis Country Club. According to G. H. Walker, Bullock learned his craft under the tutelange of "Marse" Lilburn G. McNair, the father of the mint julep. Teddy Roosevelt, known to be a tee-totaler, once admitted to drinking "just a part" of a mint julep at the St. Louis Country Club. OCLC lcating 8 copies, 2 of which are in the Library of Congress.
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