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" Something to drink. Something to read. That&amp;#039;s it. Such is the greatness of the Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog&amp;#039;s new half-menu, half-graphic novel, which debuted just a few days ago. The bar\u2014which we named one of the nation&amp;#039;s best last year\u2014has paired its most recent slew of Irish whiskey cocktails with the story of John Morrissey, a nineteenth century Irish-American who the menu succinctly summarizes as: &amp;quot;Wharf-rat, chicken-thief, prize-fighter, congressman, senator... a defiantly American tale\u2014with an Irish accent.&amp;quot; Though the man&amp;#039;s list of preoccupations and occupations was much longer: brothel bouncer, Gold Rush gambler, Tammany Hall elbow-rubber (hence the spots at the Capitol), member of the Dead Rabbits (yes, like the bar&amp;#039;s name\u2014and as in Gangs of New York), enemy of Bill the Butcher (likewise about the Scorcese film), and racecourse cofounder in Saratoga Springs, NY. The story goes that the man also earned his nickname, Old Smoke, after he found his back pinned down to a fallen stove&amp;#039;s coals\u2014his flesh burning\u2014and fought his way to victory. That&amp;#039;s depicted in the second spread, beside an array of eight &amp;quot;Fiery&amp;quot; cocktails. That&amp;#039;s one of the two spreads below, which should give you a taste. (Click the photos to get a closer look. They were designed by Drinksology and Mark Reihill\u2014both of Belfast.)    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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