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Kentucky Derby, Mint Juleps and Tradition

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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