Harry Craddock

Harry Craddock

Harry Craddock was an United States citizen who left during Prohibition and joined the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel, London, in 1920. Craddock was one of the most famous cocktail barmen of the 1920s and 1930s. Craddock’s “The Savoy Cocktail Book” was published in 1930, and is still in print today. Craddock invented a number of classic cocktails possibly including the White Lady, and popularised the Dry Martini.

ee also

Pegu (cocktail)

External links

* [http://www.timewasting.net/i-swig-a-few-cocktails-at-the-savoy-for-olive-magazine/ Timewasting.net]
* [http://www.savoy-group.co.uk/ The Savoy Group website]
* [http://www.fluidstyle.co.uk/venuedetails.aspx?venueID=270 Fluid Style]
* [http://realabsinthe.blogspot.com/2007/05/long-list-of-absinthe-cocktails_30.html 104 cocktails containing absinthe from The Savoy Cocktail Book]


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