Quote of the Day, Thank God It’s The Future edition.

From a 2017 Reason article on the cocktail:

…in the Dark Ages [the 1950s to 1990s – ML], proper cocktails were an obscure pastime for a tiny band of hobbyists, most of whom were, like 11th century monks, protecting what few scraps of imperfect knowledge remained.

It’s a fascinating article. Basically, cocktails were great, in ways that we have difficulty realizing. Until Prohibition, when most of the knowledge died and cocktails became something that you used to hide how horrible the booze was.  And then it never got better, until booze nerds started cracking the books and recreating the entire culinary-artistic movement.  And now I want a proper Old Fashioned, so I’m going to say it was also a successful article.

Via Ed Driscoll.