Extra, Extra: Is Cocktail Culture Destroying Bartending?

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By Ben Yakas in News on August 18, 2011 6:42 PM

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I see what Gothamist has done here. Clearly the fat man is the metaphorical Cocktail Culture riding the symbolic bike of Bartending into oncoming traffic. Genius!