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![“Cocktails have been a vital element of the show right from the opening scene, which showed Don Draper sitting in a bar. Before the audience learns his name or his profession, he expresses his drink preference: “Do this again — old-fashioned, please.”
…drink historians and barmen of a certain age say that “Mad Men” mostly gets its bibulous world right. Dale DeGroff benefits from a twin perspective. A former bartender at the Rainbow Room, he is often credited with rekindling interest in classic cocktails. But in the early 1970s, he worked at the influential advertising firm Lois Holland Callaway. One of the agency’s clients was Restaurant Associates, which ran such sensations as the Four Seasons and Forum of the Twelve Caesars.
These ad guys made themselves experts on all the details that needed attention, including everything at the cocktail bars and even the wine lists,
“The big Scotches were Bell’s, Black & White, Teacher’s, White Horse, When you’re drinking Canadian Club, you’re showing people you drink a better brand” of whiskey. Betty Draper’s taste for Tom Collinses and vodka gimlets was spot on.
This season, Sterling gets his hands on some prized contraband: Soviet-made Stolichnaya (then not available in the United States). His priorities remain solidly in place. “Help yourself,” he tells a colleague. “Not the Stoli.” “
When Cocktails Were Office Supplies [NYT]](http://29.media.tumblr.com/xBPM27W2Jr34b90vVrvDYzZso1_400.jpg)
“Cocktails have been a vital element of the show right from the opening scene, which showed Don Draper sitting in a bar. Before the audience learns his name or his profession, he expresses his drink preference: “Do this again — old-fashioned, please.”
…drink historians and barmen of a certain age say that “Mad Men” mostly gets its bibulous world right. Dale DeGroff benefits from a twin perspective. A former bartender at the Rainbow Room, he is often credited with rekindling interest in classic cocktails. But in the early 1970s, he worked at the influential advertising firm Lois Holland Callaway. One of the agency’s clients was Restaurant Associates, which ran such sensations as the Four Seasons and Forum of the Twelve Caesars.
These ad guys made themselves experts on all the details that needed attention, including everything at the cocktail bars and even the wine lists,
“The big Scotches were Bell’s, Black & White, Teacher’s, White Horse, When you’re drinking Canadian Club, you’re showing people you drink a better brand” of whiskey. Betty Draper’s taste for Tom Collinses and vodka gimlets was spot on.
This season, Sterling gets his hands on some prized contraband: Soviet-made Stolichnaya (then not available in the United States). His priorities remain solidly in place. “Help yourself,” he tells a colleague. “Not the Stoli.” “
