What it is and why we call it “Old Fashioned” The name of the Old Fashioned cocktail is a textbook example of truth in labeling. We call it that because it was, indeed, the earliest form of American cocktail.  During the pre-revolutionary and pre-refrigeration era, when whiskey and rum were coarse and often offensive to … Continue reading Cooks’ World/Pinnacle Liquor Cocktail of the Week: The Old Fashioned & its many riffs