Kentucky Derby, Mint Juleps and Tradition from Christine C. @ PopPolitics.com 03 May 2008 11:34 am
So you think sipping that mint julep today — Southern bourbon, sugar, mint and crushed ice — connects you to tradition?
Jeff Burkhart, a bartender and writer, notes that the recipe for the first mint julep was quite different:
Professor Jerry Thomas, the original celebrity bartender, took on the subject in his 1862 bartending treatise “The Bon [...]
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