Item #29206 La Cucaracha Cocktail Club. Famous the World Over. English Speaking Personnel. COCKTAILS.
La Cucaracha Cocktail Club. Famous the World Over. English Speaking Personnel
La Cucaracha Cocktail Club. Famous the World Over. English Speaking Personnel

La Cucaracha Cocktail Club. Famous the World Over. English Speaking Personnel. Mexico City: La Cucaracha Cocktail Club, [1940].

Presumed First Edition. Original illustrated stiff cardstock, one sheet folded to make six pages (4 pages of cocktails, 1 postcard, 1 front cover). Includes names and ingredients, but not proportions, for over 40 cocktails, several featuring absinthe. Includes Manhattan cocktail, Old-Fashioned, the Clover Club, Stingeri (Stinger) and Shangai (Shanghai) cocktails. American bartenders fled the United States during Prohibition and brought their cocktail recipes abroad with them. Inside the menu are ink drawings of La Cucaracha and his friends relaxing over cocktails at the bar. There's also a cockroach that has passed out at a table on the rear cover. Sadly the club no longer exists. Very scarce. Near Fine, unused.

Price: $400.00

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