Prohibition & Exile

American bartending went underground at home and abroad simultaneously. Speakeasies served what they could find. Meanwhile, every great American bartender fled — to Cuba, to Paris, to London. The Hemingway Daiquiri came from Havana. The White Lady came from Harry's New York Bar in Paris. The Savoy Cocktail Book, the most important cocktail manual of the 20th century, was published in London in 1930. American cocktails matured while America wasn't drinking them.