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Philosophy of Cocktails Publisher / SendPoints Publishing Vanilla beansAn early description of a cocktail as a mix of alcoholic drinks with flavouring ingredients does nothing to convey the alchemy and speak easy glamour of these elaborate drinks. The cocktails humble beginnings as a medicinal tonic through the inclusion of botanicals into distilled spirits such as gin and whiskey, accelerates with the ingenuity of bartenders who created the classics the Martini, Manhattan and Old Fashioned in the nineteenth century, and