Name: The Bartender Spy: Frank Meier
Start: 2016-07-20T15:00:00-0500
End: 2016-07-20T16:30:00-0500

The Bartender Spy: Frank Meier

Covert World War II missions for the French resistance, forged passports, delicious cocktails: Welcome to the amazing world of legendary Hotel Ritz Paris bartender and spy Frank Meier. While his Art Deco 1936 book, The Artistry of Mixing Drinks, is praised by cocktail lovers and his signature concoction, the Bees’ Knees, is still on menus, much of his heroic wartime activities have just come to light. This panel will seek to fill in the gaps in Meier’s life (including his time training at New York’s famed Hoffman House) and help to explain why he mysteriously disappeared and what happened to him after the war.

Moderators

Noah Rothbaum

Chief Cocktail Correspondent, The Daily Beast

Noah Rothbaum is The Daily Beast's Chief Cocktail Correspondent. He is also the author of the book The Art of American Whiskey: A Visual History of the Nation’s Most Storied Spirit, through 100 Iconic Labels (Ten Speed Press), which was published in the spring of 2015, and the associate... Read More →

Speakers

Fernando Castellon

Founder/Owner, CASTELLON CONSULTING

Fernando Castellon is a French bar expert, internationally renowned for his work in fields such as bar history (finding many first prints of classic books and cocktails), author (Larousse of Cocktails), editor (Ginger Magazine), and innovations about cocktail techniques. He started... Read More →

David Wondrich

Senior Resident Fellow, North Gowanus Institute for Cranial Distempers

David Wondrich is widely hailed as the world’s foremost authority on the history of the cocktail and one of the founders of the modern craft cocktail movement. The longtime Drinks Correspondent for Esquire magazine, Dr. Wondrich (he has a PhD in Comparative Literature) is a five-time... Read More →

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