Manhattan cocktail

[jester at PANIX.COM]

>  The online OED has the "Manhattan cocktail" from 1890.  They're
> revising "m," so I don't know if that's their final answer.

> From SCIENTIFIC BAR-KEEPING, A COLLECTION OF RECIPES USED BY LEADING
BAR-KEEPERS IN MAKING STANDARD AND NEW FANCY MIXED DRINKS, RELIABLE
DIRECTIONS FOR PRESERVING NATIVE AND FOREIGN WINES, ALES, BEER AND
LIQUORS.  CAREFULLY COMPILED AND REVISED. (E. N. Cook, Publishers,
Buffalo, N.Y. 1884), pg. 8:

I had found another 1884 for _Manhattan cocktail_; both are
now in the files awaiting updating.

Jesse Sheidlower
<jester at panix.com>