Bronx (cocktail) This was the beginning of his addiction to alcohol. It appears in William "Cocktail" Boothby's 1908 book The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them as "Bronx Cocktail, a la Billy Malloy, Pittsburgh, PA. One-third Plymouth gin, one-third French vermouth and one-third Italian vermouth, flavored with two dashes of Orange bitters, about a barspoonful of orange juice and a squeeze of orange peel. Serve very cold." Harry Craddock in The Savoy cocktail book mentions three recipes from the Bronx. The Bronx Cocktail is mentioned in the 1934 film "The Thin Man" by Nick Charles (played by William Powell). In the
Phenethyl alcohol The main side product is diphenylethane, which can be avoided by use of excess benzene. Hydrogenation of styrene oxide also affords phenethyl alcohol. Phenethyl alcohol can also be prepared by the reaction between phenylmagnesium bromide and ethylene oxide: Phenethyl alcohol can also be produced by biotransformation from -phenylalanine using immobilized yeast "Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Phenethyl alcohol is found in extract of rose, carnation, hyacinth, Aleppo pine, orange blossom, ylang-ylang, geranium, neroli, and champaca. It is also an autoantibiotic produced by the fungus "Candida albicans It is therefore a common ingredient in flavors and perfumery, particularly when the odor of rose is