"In 1913, former President Theodore Roosevelt, countering a report that he was frequently drunk, testified in a libel suit that one of the few drinks he had had since leaving the White House was a mint julep at the St. Louis Country Club. And, he said, he took only a sip or two.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch found this claim outrageous enough that it printed an editorial basically calling Roosevelt a liar. “Who was ever known to drink just a part of one of Tom’s” juleps, the newspaper asked incredulously.
“Tom” was Tom Bullock, the longtime bartender at the St. Louis Country Club and the first African-American bartender to publish a cocktail manual.
That 1917 book, “The Ideal Bartender,” has just been republished in an exact facsimile of its original form by Cocktail Kingdom, a Manhattan publisher that has turned resuscitating old cocktail books into a cottage industry."
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