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• n  bourbon and sugar and mint over crushed ice

• It's one of the best-selling books ever bound between covers, but that's not what makes Margaret Mitchell's magnificent mint julep of a novel great.
• Of course, you could ignore all that and just go up to your room; there are 90 of them, stocked with customized iPods, specially distilled bourbon and sterling-silver mint-julep .
• Mark Kurlansky, author of 'The Food of a Younger Land', makes competing recipes for mint juleps from the 1930s.

• mint julep

News & Articles

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• Joanna McQuillan Weeks: Mint juleps hit the spot on a nice summer day
  Several years ago, my husband and I attended a Derby Day party at the home of our friends Ted and Nancy, and I made the acquaintance of the traditional Kentucky cocktail for the occasion, the mint julep.
  June 26, 2013 - The Standard-Times
• New Westport venue will focus on whiskey cocktails
  Head bartender at Manifesto is co-owner of the new Julep, set to open in March 2014.
  June 24, 2013 - The Kansas City Star

Quotes

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• Patricia Clarkson in Washington Post
  I think what's beautiful is that she's undergone this physical transformation, but I think she'll have a paintbrush in one hand and a mint julep in the other,Clarkson says. "At the core, she's still a Southern lady."
• Nick Clooney in Cincinnati Enquirer
  He has quite a collection of julep cups by now,says Nick. "We watch the premiere, and we go to the party afterwards, and George says 'Where's my cup?'"
• Tom Hanks in Louisville Courier-Journal
  I'm not a mint julep man,Hanks said near the Paddock Bar before the seventh race. "I like my bourbon straight."