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The Old Fashioned is a cocktail of choice of Don Draper, the lead character on the Mad Men television series.
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Compare the ingredients listed ( spirits, sugar, water, and bitters ) with the ingredients of an Old Fashioned, which originated as a term used by late 19th century bar patrons to distinguish cocktails made the “ old-fashioned ” way from newer, more complex cocktails.
* An Old Fashioned Martian Girl ( 2004 ), by Mary A. Turzillo, a novel serialized in Analog magazine.
The Old Fashioned is a type of cocktail made by muddling dissolved sugar with bitters then adding alcohol, such as whiskey or brandy, and a twist of citrus rind.
It is traditionally served in a short, round, tumbler-like glass, which is called an Old Fashioned glass, named after the drink.
The Old Fashioned is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.
The first alleged use of the specific name " Old Fashioned " was for a Bourbon whiskey cocktail in the 1880s, at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemen ’ s club in Louisville, Kentucky.
One of the earliest recipes for an Old Fashioned, written in 1895, specifies the following: " Dissolve a small lump of sugar with a little water in a whiskey-glass ; add two dashes Angostura bitters, a small piece ice, a piece lemon-peel, one jigger or 44 ml whiskey.
The original Old Fashioned recipe would have showcased the whiskey available in America in the 19th century, either bourbon or Rye Whiskey.
But in some regions, especially Wisconsin, brandy is substituted for whiskey ( sometimes called a Brandy Old Fashioned ).
Common garnishes for an Old Fashioned include an orange slice or a maraschino cherry, although these modifications came around 1930, some time after the original recipe was invented.
In a scene from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, a pilot ( Jim Backus ) asks for an Old Fashioned while flying an airplane.
*-discusses internet forum debates among " home cocktail enthusiasts ," using the Old Fashioned as a focal point.
A White Russian, also known as a Caucasian, is a sweet cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueurs ( e. g., Kahlúa or Tia Maria ), and cream served with ice in an Old Fashioned glass.
“ Fossilized Fashion: ‘ Old Fashioned ’ Dress as a Symbol of a Separate, Work-Oriented Identity .” Dress.
Bourbon is served straight, diluted with water, over ice cubes, or mixed with soda and into cocktails, including the Manhattan, the Old Fashioned, and the iconic mint julep.
It may be added to other beverages to make several popular cocktails ; these include the Brandy Alexander, the Sidecar, the Brandy Daisy, and the Brandy Old Fashioned.
Cliff " Ukulele Ike " Edwards scatted an interlude on his 1923 " Old Fashioned Love " in lieu of using an instrumental soloist.
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It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.
The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.
Old Order, acted and atonally sung by Grunnfeu Arapacis, the lovely Serbantian import, then entered and delivered the well-known invocation to the god Phineoppus, whereupon the stage is quite unexpectedly visited by a company of wandering Gorshek priests, symbolizing Love, Lust, Prudence and General Motors, respectively.
Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.
The party is to raise money for the Old Town Art center and to plant more crabapple trees along the streets of Old Town.
`` A Toast To The Bride '', sung by Clarence Nordstrom, playing a character called Old Man Toomey, is quite simple, direct and touching.
It is the belief of Old Babylonian scholars such as Carruccio that Old Babylonians " may have used the abacus for the operations of addition and subtraction ; however, this primitive device proved difficult to use for more complex calculations ".
Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.
Another notable script is Elder Futhark, which is believed to have evolved out of one of the Old Italic alphabets.
The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).
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