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Cocktail Juleps
Wednesday June 30, 2004
If the mark of a great cocktail is the number of arguments it can provoke and the number of unbreakable rules it generates, "the mint julep may be America's pre-eminent classic, edging out the martini in a photo finish". So says David A. Embury, cocktail authority and former restaurant critic for The New York Times, who has "some 30 or 40 different recipes for juleps, some good, some bad, some indifferent".