"George J. Kappeler ... was for a long time at the head of the drink laboratory connected with the Holland House, which has a reputation for the excellence of its damp delights." -Centralia Enterprise and Tribune, 1897 Modern American Drinks, originally published in 1895, is considered by many cocktail enthusiasts to be one of the most important cocktail books of the era, with dozens of recipes that had never been published before. George J. Kappeler, who was the head bartender at the Holland House Hotel at Fifth and Thirtieth in Manhattan, writes in his preface: "The recipes contained in...