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The Brown Derby

Posted September 12, 2009 @ 8:37 pm In Brown,Colors | No Comments


How It's Used

“In the years just after Prohibition, the Bacardi Cocktail -- white rum, fresh lime juice and grenadine -- threatened to unseat the king of cocktails. 'The famed Martini is reported to be slipping at last in popularity,' wrote the Washington Post in 1937, yielding to the Bacardi Cocktail. That same year, Hollywood columnist Jimmy Fidler gossiped that, according to bartenders at the Brown Derby restaurant, ‘Bacardi cocktails are Filmtown's favorite drink.’”

—Eric Felten, “Grenadine, True and False,” The Wall Street Journal, June 10-11, 2006, p. P7.


Links

Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on the Brown Derby
The Hollywood Brown Derby official Web site



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