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Mar 30, 2020 · The profession has grown tremendously over the past several years. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 644,100 bartenders working in the US in 2018. That number is forecasted ...
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- In the late 19th and early 20th century, bars went from being seedy spots hidden in alleyways to popular gathering spots. Bartenders began dressing up to work and following set recipes.
- Jerry Thomas published the country’s first cocktail book, "The Bon Vivant’s Companion," in 1862.
- Black bartenders, prohibited from going into white saloons, founded the exclusive “Colored Mixologists Club" in 1898.
- Women, meanwhile, barely worked as bartenders. A rudimentary census in 1895 found just 147 women working as bartenders, compared to nearly 56,000 men.
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Jan 6, 2019 · Eliza Relman. Jan 6, 2019, 2:18 PM PST. Hollis Johnson/Business Insider. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a bartender when she pulled together a scrappy populist campaign for US Congress...
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Jan 8, 2019 · Politics. Here's the timeline of how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went from bartender to congresswoman in less than a year. Eliza Relman and Samantha Lee. Jan 8, 2019, 9:36 AM PST. Hollis...
May 14, 2019 · This they did without trouble because, for centuries, bartender was one of the most straightforward jobs out there, its occupational contours etched as clearly as that of blacksmith or cooper. True, in the 18th and 19th centuries a bartender could become a local leader, act as an impromptu banker and maybe segue into politics, as taverns were ...
May 31, 2019 · May 31, 2019. Officially, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s one-hour return to her bartending days was about a push to raise pay for tipped-wage workers. But as she fielded orders...
The pioneers of bartending as a serious profession appeared in the 19th century. Jerry Thomas established the image of the bartender as a creative professional, credited with being the father of American Mixology. He earned this title by publishing Jerry Thomas' Bartender's Guide, the first guide to making cocktails in 1862.
