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^ "25 Most Influential Cocktail Personalities".However, no copies of the book have been found. If true, it would be the first cocktail guide ever published, pre-dating Thomas's The Bar-Tender's Guide by two years. Johnson claimed to have written and published an earlier edition, in 1860. The invention of the martini was sometimes wrongly attributed to him – or to Thomas. The book contained the first written recipes of such cocktails as the bijou (invented by Johnson), the marguerite (in the 1900 edition), and a version of the martini (in the 1888 edition).

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However, what made it seminal were its detailed instructions on how to become a proper bartender, such as: "The opening of a new place", "How ale and porter should be drawn", "Hints about training a boy to the business", "Handing bar-spoons to customers", "To keep ants and other insects out of mixing bottles" etc.

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The manual provided hundreds of cocktail recipes. His New and Improved Bartender's Manual, or How to Mix Drinks in the Present Style was published in 1882. In 1890, Johnson decided to retire from bartending and opened a bar management consulting agency, thereby becoming the first bar consultant in history. Their rivalry peaked in 1880, when Thomas threw a bowl of Tom and Jerry on the floor of Johnson's bar, calling him an amateur because that drink should only be served when the temperature drops below zero. Upon hearing that, Thomas publicly renounced any association with the bar. In 1877, he bought Little Jumbo, a bar where Thomas used to work. When his bar burned in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, Johnson went to New York City. In 1869, he claimed that he had challenged the five best American bartenders in New Orleans and won, becoming "the champion of the United States." No other source confirms this, though.

Now a celebrity, Johnson gave lectures and wrote articles and recipes for local newspapers. Īfter eight years, Johnson moved to Chicago and opened a bar of his own, which became very successful. It was in San Francisco that he first met Jerry Thomas, his rival, whose work he would continue. Starting as a kitchen-boy in the Union Hotel, he worked his way up to bartender and then manager. A sailor, he was left by his ship in San Francisco in 1861 to recover from a broken arm and hip.