“A Horsefeather? What the hell is a Horsefeather?”
–Every bartender in America who has never been to Kansas City
We don’t generally think of cocktails as “belonging” to anyone.
There certainly are cocktails associated with specific cities—the Manhattan of New York, of course, or the Sazerac of New Orleans—but those drinks are international superstars, and they belong to all of us. Even when it’s more esoteric, when we know who invented a specific drink…

