Cocktail & Wine Digest

Haimo, Oscar. Cocktail & Wine Digest: encyclopedia & guide for home & bar. International Cocktail Wine & Spirits Digest: New York 1953. 8vo (160x120mm) red & silver stiff stapled wrappers 142,[2]pp. Near Fine/-

HAIMO, Oscar (1904-1982)

Cocktail and Wine Digest: encyclopedia & guide for home & bar (from Private Notes)

New York: The Cocktail, Wine, Beer and Spirit Digest, 1953. Printed by the Allied Printing Trades Council, New York.

Octavo (160x120mm) full publishers burgundy cloth, silver lettered and decorated, 125,[3]pp. Blue sepia ink illustrations by the Author; blue sepia photographs of the Hotel Pierre, the author with Edward G Robinson and bar and glassware.

Oscar Haimo was the celebrity 'Maitre de Bar' (bartender) (and bartender to celebrities) at the Hotel Pierre, New York from the 1940s onwards.  Originally trained by Frank Meier at the Paris Ritz, Haimo worked out the Royalty Bar and the Casino in Monaco before emigrating to New York to work in prohibition-era speakeasies.  He first self-published Cocktail and Wine Digest in 1943.  A popular work, known in the trade as the 'barman's bible', a new edition, revised and updated was published annually until 1977.  In 1945 Haimo founded the International Bar Managers' Association. 

Haimo's prize winning contribution to the pantheon of cocktails was 'The Macarthur" (lime juice, triple sec, rum & Jamaican rum, a dash of egg white, shaken well).

An early (tenth) edition  in near fine condition.

§  OCLC records 3 holdings this edition;
§  Noling, p.185; EUVS; not in Cagle & Stafford