#23 Cocktail: Bronx

    The story of the creation of this drink is detailed by Albert Stevens Crockett's "The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book" and although the book claims that it was created prior to 1917, no clue is given as to the precise date of it's birth.
    According to the book, the bartender who created the Bronx cocktail was a certain Johnnie Solon and he made the cocktail as a response to a challenge from a waiter by the name of Traverson. The Bronx is a variation of a popular cocktail of the time named Duplex and it became so popular that the bar was son using more than 1 case of oranges per day.
      The book quotes Salon as saying: "I had been to the Bronx Zoo a day or two before , and I saw, of course, a lot of beasts I had never known. Customers used to tell me of the strange animals they saw after a lot of mixed drinks. So when Traverson said to me, as he started to take the drink to the customers "What'll tell him is the name of the drink?"  I thought of these animals and said "Oh, you can tell him it is a Bronx""

2 ounces gin

1/4 ounce sweet vermouth

1/4 dry vermouth

1 ounce fresh orange  juice

2 dashes angostura aromatic