It feels like a trap, doesn’t it? Like seeing a restaurant called Very Good Restaurant? To me, the name of the Improved Whiskey Cocktail feels a bit like playing Old Maid with an eight-year-old and ...

Of all the Manhattan’s children—and there are many—the Harvard Cocktail is perhaps the most bizarre. But what can we say about the Harvard Cocktail? We know it comes to us from George J. Kappeler, ...