A small note for those who want to play bartender at home: I've prepared a ready-made ingredient list with everything required. Now let me tell you how it all began.
The Sidecar was born at the end of World War I, between Paris and London, around 1918-1920. The most famous legend credits Harry MacElhone at Harry's New York Bar in Paris, who allegedly created it for an American captain who arrived at the bar in the sidecar of a motorcycle and wanted something to warm him up before dinner.
A parallel theory credits Pat MacGarry at Buck's Club in London. Whichever story you prefer, the Sidecar became a Belle Époque icon and was codified by Harry Craddock in the Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930. With its sugared rim, inherited from the Brandy Crusta, it is considered the perfect example of a balanced sour and one of the most elegant cocktails ever created.
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