Credit for creating the Americano is given to Gaspare Campari. The Milan, Italy bar owner first served this bitter sweet cocktail some time around 1861. During the American prohibition on alcohol, Americans would flock to …

In San Francisco, where bitter liquers like Compari and Fernet Branca know significant local popularity and local bartenders create a range of concoctions to highlight their medicine-like characteristics, John Pringle of Globe Restaurant has created …