The Last Word is a gin-based cocktail originating at the Detroit Athletic Club in the 1910s, shortly before the start of Prohibition. After a long period of obscurity, it enjoyed a renewed popularity in the early 2000s when it was introduced at the Zig Zag Café in Seattle.
Ted Saucier's 1951 cocktail book Bottoms Up! states that the Last Word was first served at the Detroit Athletic Club.[1] The club's archives revealed it to be on the menu as early as 1916, when it was the club's most expensive cocktail at a price of 35 cents (equivalent to $9.8 in 2023).[2] By the early 1920s, the drink had made its way to New York.[1]
The Last Word fell into obscurity after World War II. In 2003, Seattle bartender Murray Stenson saw the recipe in a copy of Bottoms Up! and added it to the menu of the Zig Zag Café, where it became a regional cult hit before spreading across the country.[3][4] Bartender Audrey Saunders called the drink "perfectly balanced" with a "good bite."[3]
The Prohibition-era cocktail at the Detroit Athletic Club used bathtub gin, and today the club serves a recreation of that spirit (vodka, spices, herbs, citrus) in their Last Word.[8] Other variants include the "Final Ward," created by the New York bartender Phil Ward, which substitues rye whiskey and lemon juice for gin and lime;[3] and the "Last of the Oaxacans," which uses mezcal instead of gin.[9]
^ abRegan, Gary (2018). The Joy of Mixology: The Consummate Guide to the Bartender's Craft. New York: Clarkston Potter. p. 232. ISBN978-0-45149902-8.
^Dangremond, Sam (July 20, 2015). "How Three Classic Cocktails Got Their Names". Town & Country. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
^ abcVinh, Tan (March 11, 2009). "The Last Word, a cocktail reborn in Seattle, is on everyone's lips". The Seattle Times. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
^Cooper, Becky (April 14, 2023). . The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 24, 2023. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
^ abRathbun, A.J. (2011). Ginger Bliss and the Violet Fizz: A Cocktail Lover's Guide to Mixing Drinks Using New and Classic Liqueurs. Boston: The Harvard Common Press. p. 137. ISBN978-1-55832-771-9.
^ abGiglio, Anthony; Meehan, Jim, eds. (2009). Mr. Boston Official Bartender's Guide. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. p. 80. ISBN978-0-470-39065-8.
^Newmann, Kara (November 8, 2011). . Reuters. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
^"Last Word Riff: Last of the Oaxacans". Imbibe. December 26, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
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