For every man, a drink.
Huey P. Long, the colorful governor of Louisiana, would go to great lengths to enjoy a good drink. In New Orleans it just meant taking the elevator from his 12th–floor suite at The Roosevelt down to The Sazerac Bar. Unfortunately, getting a drink to his liking wasn’t quite so simple when he left the city.
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During one of his many political trips to New York, Long stayed at the New Yorker, a hotel that boldly claimed to be the home of the Ramos Gin Fizz. After taking one sip of the New Yorker’s Fizz, the Kingfish picked up the phone and called The Roosevelt New Orleans with orders “to send his best gin fizzer on to New York by plane so he could teach these New York sophisticates how and what to drink.”
The next day Sam Guarino, head bartender at The Sazerac Bar, arrived and spent the next three hours schooling his northern counterparts on the proper way to make Long’s beloved libation. From then on out, Huey could enjoy 8 oz. of New Orleans even when he was thousands of miles away.
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