12 Cocktails Good and True by Nigel Bob Collins

Author:Nigel Bob Collins
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781504971881
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2016-01-20T17:00:00+00:00

La Fee Verte.

The Pegu Club, Rangoon, Burma. A 1910 postcard.

5.

PEGU CLUB.

In his 1899 travel log, “From Sea to Sea”, Rudyard Kipling wrote:

“There must be a few hundred men who are fairly behind the scenes of the Burma War - one of the least known and appreciated of any of our little affairs. The Pegu Club seemed to be full of men on their way up or down, and the conversation was but an echo of the murmur of conquest far away to the north.”

The Pegu Club was a fashionable Victorian gentlemen’s club in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), built to serve British officers and civil administrators after the annexation of Upper Burma in 1885. It was named for the river that runs through the city. Like all such clubs, the Pegu Club had its own cocktail. Unlike most club drinks, however, this one became a classic. As Harry Craddock observed in the Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930, the Pegu Club Cocktail “has travelled, and is asked for, around the world.” The cocktail is first mentioned in print in Harry MacElhorne’s Barflies and Cocktails published in 1927. After a long period of decline, it regained its popularity during the cocktail renaissance of the turn of the millennium.

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