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" 1731 London: James Ashley, the first celebrity bartender, opens his tavern, the Sign of the Two Punch Bowls. Age of Reason immediately begins its decline. 1803 Amherst, New Hampshire: First mention of the cocktail in print. It&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;excellent for the head.&amp;quot; 1806 Hudson, New York: First definition of the cocktail: &amp;quot;spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters.&amp;quot; 1820 New York: Willard of the City Hotel becomes the first American celebrity bartender. His bartending fuels the Great Peach Brandy Punch Craze of 1832. 1862 New York: Jerry P. Thomas publishes the world&amp;#039;s first bartender&amp;#039;s guide. It&amp;#039;s greeted with cries of &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s not how you make a Brandy Crusta!&amp;quot; 1881 New York: Thomas Burnett, head bartender at the Turf Club, invents the martini. Or maybe it was some other guy. 1897 New York: The dry martini is all the rage. How dry? Half gin, half vermouth. 1899 Oak Park, Illinois: Ernest Hemingway is born.  1920 Paris: Fernand Petiot of Harry&amp;#039;s New York Bar in Paris makes the first Bloody Mary. 1934 New York: The first vodka martini is mixed by Frank Pramaggioni of the St. Moritz hotel. Only his is pink, so you can tell it apart from a real one. 1937 Los Angeles: Johnny Durlesser, bartender at the Tail o&amp;#039; the Cock, invents the margarita. Or maybe it was some other guy. 1944 Oakland: Trader Vic Bergeron invents the mai tai. 1985 South Beach, Florida: The cosmopolitan is invented, and people begin drinking cocktails again--of a sort, anyway. 2004 New York: The cosmo-swilling Sex and the City girls break down and order manhattans. If that&amp;#039;s what it takes to bring real drinks back, fine. --D. W. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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