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Growing Pains
Title card from seasons 2–3
Genre
Sitcom
Created by
Neal Marlens
Starring
Alan Thicke
Joanna Kerns
Kirk Cameron
Tracey Gold
Jeremy Miller
Ashley Johnson
Leonardo DiCaprio
Theme music composer
John Bettis
Steve Dorff
Opening theme
"As Long As We Got Each Other"
performed by B. J. Thomas & Jennifer Warnes
Ending theme
"As Long As We Got Each Other"
Composer(s)
Steve Dorff
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
7[1]
No. of episodes
166 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Neal Marlens (1985–86)
Mike Sullivan
Steve Marshall
Dan Guntzelman (1985–91)
Dan Wilcox (1991–92)
Producer(s)
David Lerner (season 1)
Arnold Margolin
Bruce Ferber
Camera setup
Multi-camera
Running time
22–30 minutes
Production company(s)
Guntzelman/Sullivan/Marshall Productions (seasons 5–6)
Warner Bros. Television
Distributor
Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network
ABC
Original release
September 24, 1985 (1985-09-24)[1] – April 25, 1992 (1992-04-25)[1]
Chronology
Followed by
The Growing Pains Movie
Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
Related shows
Just the Ten of Us
Growing Pains is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from September 24, 1985, to April 25, 1992.[1] The show ran for seven seasons, consisting of 166 episodes.
Contents
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1 Premise
2 Cast and characters
2.1 Main
2.2 Recurring
3 Opening sequences
3.1 Theme song
4 Production
5 Episodes
5.1 Broadcast history
6 Awards and nominations
7 Spin-off
8 Reunion movies
9 DVD Releases
10 Syndication
10.1 United States
10.2 Asia
10.3 Europe
10.4 Australasia
10.5 Turkey
10.6 Latin America
11 References
12 External links
Premise[edit]
The Seaver family resides at 15 Robin Hood Lane in Huntington, Long Island, New York.[2]
Dr. Jason Seaver (portrayed by Alan Thicke), a psychiatrist, works from home because his wife, Maggie (Joanna Kerns), has gone back to work as a reporter. Jason has to take care of the kids: ladies man Mike (Kirk Cameron), bookish honors student Carol (Tracey Gold), and rambunctious Ben (Jeremy Miller). A fourth child, Chrissy Seaver (twins Kelsey and Kirsten Dohring; Ashley Johnson), is born in October 1988. In the middle of season four (1988–89), she was first played in her infant stage by an uncredited set of twin sisters. Then, by season five (1989–90), she was played in her toddler stage by alternating twins Kristen and Kelsey Dohering. In seasons six and seven (1990–92), Chrissy's age was advanced to six years old. By the seventh and final season, homeless teen Luke Brower (Leonardo DiCaprio) is brought into the Seaver family to live with them nearly until the end of season seven.
Cast and characters[edit]
Main[edit]
Alan Thicke as Dr. Jason Roland Seaver
Joanna Kerns as Margaret "Maggie" Katherine Malone Seaver
Kirk Cameron as Michael "Mike" Aaron Seaver
Tracey Gold as Carol Anne Seaver
Jeremy Miller as Benjamin "Ben" Hubert Horatio Humphrey Seaver
Ashley Johnson as Christine "Chrissy" Ellen Seaver (seasons 6–7)
Kelsey and Kristen Dohring as Christine Ellen "Chrissy" Seaver (toddler) (season 5, alternating)
Leonardo DiCaprio as Luke Brower (season 7)[3]
Recurring[edit]
Andrew Koenig as Richard Milhous "Boner" Stabone (seasons 1–4), Mike's friend; left to join the United States Marine Corps
Jamie Abbott as Stinky Sullivan (seasons 2–6), Ben's friend
K. C. Martel as Eddie (seasons 1–7), Mike's friend
Chelsea Noble as Kate MacDonald (seasons 5–7), Mike's girlfriend
Heather Langenkamp as Marie Lubbock (season 3; starred in spin-off Just the Ten of Us), Coach Graham Lubbock's daughter / Amy Boutilier (season 6), Mike's love interest
Gordon Jump as Ed Malone (seasons 1–7); Maggie's father
Lisa Capps as Debbie (seasons 2–4), Carol's friend
Rachael Jacobs as Shelley (seasons 2–4), Carol's friend
Julie McCullough as Julie Costello (seasons 4–5), Mike's former girlfriend
Sam Anderson as Principal Willis DeWitt (season 1–7), Mike's history teacher in season one and principal from season two onward
Betty McGuire as Kate Malone (seasons 1–7); Maggie's mother
Bill Kirchenbauer as Coach Graham Lubbock (seasons 2–5; starred in spin-off Just the Ten of Us), gym teacher
Jodi Peterson as Laura Lynn (seasons 4–6), Ben's girlfriend / love interest
Evan Arnold as Richie Flanscopper (seasons 2–4)
Jane Powell as Irma Seaver (seasons 1–3), Jason's mother
Harry Shearer as Francis X. Tedesco (season 7), principal of the learning annex where Mike teaches
Matthew Perry as Sandy (season 4), Carol's boyfriend
Opening sequences[edit]
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The season one main opening features various works of art and vintage photography depicting family life, closing with a shot of the cast.
The opening credits from seasons two through five features an opening shot of the cast in front of the Seaver house exterior. This is followed by a series of photos of each cast member from their childhood onward ending with a clip from the show. The credits closed with another shot of the cast in front of the Seaver house before they all run inside. Starting in the fourth season, several different versions of the opening sequence were filmed. Whoever was the last to go into the house would usually be the focus of that week's episode.[citation needed]
The opening used in seasons six and seven featured opening and shot of the mantle on the Seavers' fireplace panning over photos of the cast. The photos of the cast from childhood remained but instead of clips from the show, current still photos were used. Some versions of these credits end with another shot of the mantle while others close with a montage of group shots from the same family photo shoot which the current photos used in the rest of the credits come from.
Theme song[edit]
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The show's theme song is "As Long as We've Got Each Other", which was written and composed by John Bettis (lyrics) and Steve Dorff (music). It was performed by:
B.J. Thomas (singing solo); season 1
B.J. Thomas & Jennifer Warnes; seasons 2, 3, 5, part of 7
B.J. Thomas & Dusty Springfield; season 4
Joe Chemay, Jim Haas, Jon Joyce and George Merrill (singing a capella); season 6, part of 7, series finale
There were nine versions of the theme song used; others included a Halloween-themed version not sung by Thomas or Warnes used in a two-part Halloween episode in 1990. A shorter version of the Thomas/Warnes version was used starting in season five.
There was also an a cappella version of the song which was used for all of season six, but this version was abandoned for most of season seven in favor of the reinstatement of Thomas' and Warnes' duet version, although the a cappella theme returned for three episodes as well as the series finale. A full-length version by Thomas and Springfield was released as a single in 1988.
A soundtrack was released in 1988 titled Steve Dorff and Friends: Growing Pains and Other Hit TV Themes. The soundtrack contains songs penned by Dorff from his television series theme songs and three tracks from Growing Pains:
Theme Song "As Long As We Got Each Other" (B.J. Thomas and Dusty Springfield)
Aloha Episode – "Swept Away" by Christopher Cross
Graduation Day Episode – "This Is The Day" performed by B.J. Thomas
Production[edit]
Kirk Cameron was once an atheist,[4] but when he was 17, during the height of his career on Growing Pains, became a born-again Christian.[5][6][7] After converting to Christianity, he began to insist that story lines be stripped of anything he thought too adult or racy.[8][9]
According to rumors at the time, the biggest consequence of Cameron's conversion to Christianity was the firing of actress Julie McCullough who had landed the role of nanny Julie Costello in 1989. McCullough's character appeared in eight episodes of the show before she was fired at Cameron's insistence and replaced on the show by Cameron's real-life girlfriend, Chelsea Noble. Cameron objected to and was outraged at McCullough's having posed nude in Playboy, and accused the show's producers of promoting pornography. A decade later, Cameron apologized, attributing his behavior to his lack of maturity,[10][11] but did not reconcile with McCullough, who claims that Cameron refused to speak to her during a later encounter, and who remains critical of him, stating that she lost a lot from the public criticism she endured from the controversy. McCullough has criticized the evangelical television programming Cameron has produced, which she has viewed on one occasion, saying on her MySpace page:
He thinks if I read science books that I'm going to hell. [I would] rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints ... the sinners are much more fun. And a lot more interesting than some book-burner who is still having growing pains. I am at peace with God. Kirk thinks people like me are going to Hell, if I do then at least I'll go well informed and well read.[12]
Cameron, however, tells a different story:
"Contrary to popular gossip, I had nothing to do with the firing of Julie McCullough.... But don't take my word for it.. According to Dan Guntzelman, the head show-runner for Growing Pains: 'The truth is, Julie was let go because Mike being in a commmitted relationship was a dead end - he was, after all, an immature imp who was ill-equipped to deal with a grownup world on all levels. That's where the conflict and comedy came from. The maturity to have and maintain a lasting relationship fought against this... Julie was to play the part of Mike's first serious relationship - the first time he was swept up in something larger than himself, but she was never intended to be his mate for life, even the life of the series.'
"Producer Mike Sullivan confirms Dan's comments: 'It was a guest star role; she wasn't hired as a series regular. There was never any intention of the Mike character being married or in a permanent romantic relationship.'" [13]
In season four, the show's scripts called for the character Carol Seaver to be the brunt of fat jokes from her television brothers. Beginning in October 1988, Gold dieted from 133 pounds to about 110 pounds on a medically supervised 500-calorie-a-day diet, but still occasionally the scripts included fat jokes at her expense. In her autobiography, she says that between 1989 and 1991, she became increasingly obsessed with food and her weight and continued to slowly and steadily lose weight. In 1990, Gold began group therapy in an eating disorder program, but only learned more ways to lose weight. That season, her problem with weight loss was touched upon slightly on the television series, when Gold is seen looking at her body in a carnival mirror, and describes to another character the distorted image in her head. In 1991, she started starving herself more than ever and began vomiting, losing a massive amount of weight, to the point that she was admitted to a hospital in early 1992. Her lowest weight is estimated to have been near 80 pounds. She was suspended from the show for her skeletal appearance. Photos of Gold's emaciated body were plastered all over tabloid magazines, and she was one of the first celebrities ever to be formally outed for anorexia. The producers and wardrobe department for the show tried to hide her skeletal and gaunt appearance by dressing her in large and baggy sweaters and sweatshirts. She last appeared in the 1991 episode "Menage a Luke" after missing the two prior episodes where her problem is very obvious in some scenes, and did not return until the last two episodes of the series in the late spring of 1992, although she was not fully recovered.[citation needed]
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Growing Pains episodes
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
Nielsen ratings[14]
First aired
Last aired
Rank
Rating
1 22 September 24, 1985 (1985-09-24) May 13, 1986 (1986-05-13) 17 19.5
(Tied with Knots Landing)
2 22 September 30, 1986 (1986-09-30) May 19, 1987 (1987-05-19) 8 22.7
3 26 September 18, 1987 (1987-09-18) May 4, 1988 (1988-05-04) 5 21.3
4 22 October 18, 1988 (1988-10-18) May 3, 1989 (1989-05-03) 13 17.6
(Tied with L.A. Law)
5 26 September 20, 1989 (1989-09-20) May 2, 1990 (1990-05-02) 21 15.4
6 24 September 19, 1990 (1990-09-19) April 24, 1991 (1991-04-24) 27 14.3
(Tied with Baby Talk and Davis Rules)
7 24 September 18, 1991 (1991-09-18) April 25, 1992 (1992-04-25) N/A N/A
8 2 November 5, 2000 (2000-11-05) October 16, 2004 (2004-10-16) N/A N/A
Broadcast history[edit]
Schedule
Time slot (ET)
1985–86 Tuesday at 8:30 PM
1986–87
1987–88 Friday at 8:00 PM (Episode 1)
Friday at 8:30 PM (Episode 2)
Tuesday at 9:00 PM (Episode 3)
Tuesday at 8:30 PM (Episodes 4-19)
Wednesday at 8:00 PM (Episodes 20-22, 25-26)
Wednesday at 8:30 PM (Episode 23)
Tuesday at 8:00 PM (Episode 24)
1988–89 Wednesday at 8:00 PM
1989–90
1990–91 Wednesday at 8:30 PM (Episodes 1-6, 8-24)
Wednesday at 8:00 PM (Episode 7)
1991–92 Wednesday at 8:30 PM (Episodes 1-2)
Saturday at 8:30 PM (Episodes 3-15)
Saturday at 9:30 PM (Episodes 16-22, 24)
Saturday at 9:00 PM (Episode 23)
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year
Association
Category
Nominee / episode
Result
1985 Young Artist Awards Best Young Actor Starring in a New Television Series Kirk Cameron Won
1985 Best Young Actress Starring in a New Television Series Tracey Gold Nominated
1985 Best Young Supporting Actor in a New Television Series Jeremy Miller Won
1986 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics "As Long As We Got Each Other" Nominated
1986 Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Series George Spiro Dibie (director of photography) / "My Brother, Myself"[citation needed] Won
1986 Young Artist Awards Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor Starring in a Television Comedy or Drama Series Kirk Cameron Won
1986 Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor in a Long Running Series Comedy or Drama Jeremy Miller Nominated
1986 Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress, Guest Starring in a Television, Comedy or Drama Series April Lerman Nominated
1987 Young Artist Awards Best Young Superstar in Television Kirk Cameron Won
1987 Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor in a Television Comedy Series Jeremy Miller Won
1987 Best Young Actress Guest Starring in a Television Comedy Series Candace Cameron / "The Long Goodbye" Nominated
1987 Best Family Comedy Series Growing Pains Won
1988 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics Song: "Swept Away" / episode: "Aloha" Nominated
1988 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite TV Actor Kirk Cameron Nominated
1988 Favorite TV Show Growing Pains Nominated
1988 Golden Globe Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series – Comedy/Musical Alan Thicke Nominated
1988 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV Kirk Cameron Nominated
1989 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV Kirk Cameron Nominated
1989 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite TV Show Growing Pains Nominated
1989 Favorite TV Actor Kirk Cameron Nominated
1989 Favorite TV Actress Tracey Gold Nominated
1989 Young Artist Awards Best Family Television Series Growing Pains Nominated
1990 Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Series Jeremy Miller Nominated
1990 Best Young Actor Guest Starring in a Television Series Kenny Morrison Nominated
1990 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite TV Actor Kirk Cameron Won
1991 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lighting Direction (Electronic) for a Comedy Series George Spiro Dibie / "Happy Halloween" Won
1991 Young Artist Awards Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress Under Nine Ashley Johnson Nominated
1992 Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Television Series Leonardo DiCaprio Nominated
1992 Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress Under Ten Ashley Johnson Nominated
1993 Outstanding Actress Under Ten in a Television Series Ashley Johnson Nominated
Spin-off[edit]
Growing Pains spawned the spin-off series, Just the Ten of Us, which featured Coach Graham Lubbock, Mike and Carol's gym teacher, moving to California with his large family to teach at an all-boys Catholic school after he was fired from Thomas Dewey High School.
Reunion movies[edit]
In 2000, the cast reunited for The Growing Pains Movie, followed by Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers in 2004.
DVD Releases[edit]
Warner Home Video has released the entire series on DVD in Region 1.[15] Seasons 3–7 are manufacture-on-demand (MOD) releases, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.
On December 6, 2011, Warner Bros. released The Growing Pains Movie and Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers on DVD in Region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection. Similar to the subsequent season sets, these are manufacture-on-demand (MOD) releases, available exclusively through Warner's online store and amazon.com.
DVD name
Ep #
Release dates
Region 1
Region 4
Season 1 22 February 7, 2006 June 5, 2007
Season 2 22 April 26, 2011 N/A
Season 3 26 May 21, 2013
Season 4 22 April 14, 2015
Season 5 26 July 14, 2015
Season 6 24 October 20, 2015
Season 7 24 January 26, 2016
Syndication[edit]
United States[edit]
ABC aired reruns of the show on its daytime schedule from July 1988 to August 1989. The show originally aired at 11:00 am (EST) until January 1989, when with the cancellation of Ryan's Hope and the expansion of Home to an hour (from 11:00am-noon), the reruns moved to 12:00 pm.
In the fall of 1989, the show was sold to local syndication, which continued until 1997. The show also aired on TBS for several years.
Reruns aired on the Disney Channel from September 1997 to September 2001. The cable rights for the show moved to sister network ABC Family, where it ran from 2001 to 2004. It has also aired on ION Television during the fall of 2006 into the spring of 2007.
Nick at Nite began airing Growing Pains on February 12, 2007, launching with a marathon from 9:00 pm ET-1:00 am ET. It was pulled from the line-up shortly after, and later moved to sister network The N/TeenNick, where it aired up until early 2010. TeenNick re-aired the series on Monday, September 13, 2010, in a 5:00 am hour block, and aired its final showings on December 27, 2010.
Growing Pains aired on Up TV from January 2015-July 2017. Antenna TV will start airing the series in December 2017.
Asia[edit]
Mainland China
This show was dubbed in Chinese by the Shanghai Television in the late 1980s with the title of Chéngzhǎng de Fánnǎo (成长的烦恼; literally "Growing vexation")
Taiwan
This show was dubbed in Chinese by Chinese Television System in the 1980s–1990s, and was given a Chinese title called Huānlè Jiātíng (歡樂家庭; Happy Family)
Japan
Growing Pains was dubbed in Japanese, and broadcast by the NHK of Japan in the title of "Yukai na Shiba Ke (愉快なシーバー家)" (Happy Seaver family) from 1997 to 2000
Europe[edit]
Germany
The show aired with the title of Unser lautes Heim on ProSieben from 1993.
France
Two books published in French exclusively about Growing Pains: Cyrille Rollet, PhD (EHESS, Paris),
Physiologie d'un sitcom américain (voyage au cœur de Growing Pains), (volume 1) – Physiology of an American Sitcom (Journey to the Heart of Growing Pains)
Circulation culturelle d'un sitcom américain (volume 2) – The Cultural Circulation of an American Sitcom
Australasia[edit]
Digital free-to-air channel 7TWO began airing reruns of Growing Pains in October 2010, and reached the final episode in June 2011, replacing it with Night Court. The Nine Network first aired the show back in the 1980s and 1990s.
The show aired on TVNZ's TV2 on Saturday afternoons in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
Turkey[edit]
The show aired in the beginning of the 1990s in Turkey's first private TV channel, Star TV.
Latin America[edit]
The show was previously aired on Nickelodeon's block, Nick at Nite from 2006 until 2009.
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Growing Pains TV Show: News, Videos, Full Episodes and More". TV Guide. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
Jump up ^ "Alan Thicke, ‘80s icon and renaissance man, wasn’t a Long Islander, but he played one on TV". Newsday.
Jump up ^ "IGN's Top 10 Favorite TV Couples". IGN. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
Jump up ^ Bashir, Martin (May 7, 2007), "Does God Exist? The Nightline Faceoff", ABC News, retrieved April 4, 2009
Jump up ^ Ewald, Dan (March–April 2003). "The Rebirth of Kirk Cameron". Today's Christian. Archived from the original on July 11, 2008. Retrieved February 23, 2009.
Jump up ^ "Back of Book Segment". The O'Reilly Factor Flash. April 12, 2006. Retrieved December 8, 2008.
Jump up ^ Cameron, Kirk; Ray Comfort (2004). The Way of the Master. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. p. Foreword. ISBN 1-4143-0061-1.
Jump up ^ "The Cast of 'Growing Pains:' Where Are They Now?". Fox News. December 18, 2008. Retrieved February 27, 2009.
Jump up ^ Keck, William (November 3, 2000). "TV Family’s Cast Gets Over Its Own 'Growing Pains'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 8, 2008.
Jump up ^ McCullough interview on The John Kerwin Show; YouTube; Accessed August 21, 2010
Jump up ^ Julie McCullough at TV.com; Accessed August 21, 2010
Jump up ^ "Julie McCullough op Myspace Comedy – Komische clips, lollige video's en grappen". Blogs.myspace.com. Retrieved 2012-04-24. [dead link]
Jump up ^ Kirk Cameron, Still Growing: An Autobiography, Regal: Ventura, CA, 2008, pp. 139-140.
Jump up ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present (Ninth Edition). Ballantine Books. p. 1691-1692. ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4.
Jump up ^ Leonardo DiCaprio Joins the Cast for the Final, '7th Season'
External links[edit]
Growing Pains on IMDb
Growing Pains at TV.com
Growing Pains French website (in French)
Growing Pains at UP TV Network
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Manhattan (cocktail)
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Manhattan
IBA Official Cocktail
A classic 2:1 Manhattan, made with Canadian whisky, sweet vermouth, bitters, and a cherry
Type
Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume
Whiskey
Served
Straight up; without ice
Standard garnish
Maraschino cherry
Standard drinkware
Cocktail glass
IBA specified
ingredients
5 cL Rye whiskey
2 cL Sweet red vermouth
Dash Angostura bitters
Preparation
Stirred over ice, strained into a chilled glass, garnished, and served up.
Manhattan recipe at International Bartenders Association
A Manhattan served in a cocktail glass
A Manhattan is a cocktail made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters. Commonly used whiskeys include rye (the traditional choice), Canadian whisky, bourbon, blended whiskey, and Tennessee whiskey. The cocktail is often stirred and strained into a cocktail glass, where it is garnished with a Maraschino cherry with a stem.[1][2] A Manhattan can also be served on the rocks in a lowball glass. The whiskey-based Manhattan is one of five cocktails named for one of New York City's five boroughs, but is perhaps most closely related to the Brooklyn cocktail,[3] a mix utilizing dry vermouth and Maraschino liqueur in place of the Manhattan's sweet vermouth, as well as Amer Picon in place of the Manhattan's traditional bitters.
The Manhattan is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.
Contents
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1 Origin and history
2 Traditions
3 Variations
4 References
5 External links
Origin and history[edit]
A popular history suggests that the drink originated at the Manhattan Club in New York City in the early 1870s, where it was invented by Dr. Iain Marshall for a banquet hosted by Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston) in honor of presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden. The success of the banquet made the drink fashionable, later prompting several people to request the drink by referring to the name of the club where it originated—"the Manhattan cocktail".[4][5] However, Lady Randolph was in France at the time and pregnant, so the story is likely a fiction.[6]
However, there are prior references to various similar cocktail recipes called "Manhattan" and served in the Manhattan area.[5] By one account it was invented in the 1860s by a bartender named Black at a bar on Broadway near Houston Street.[7]
The original "Manhattan cocktail" was a mix of "American Whiskey, Italian Vermouth and Angostura bitters".[8][9] During Prohibition (1920–1933) Canadian whisky was primarily used because it was available.[10]
An early record of the cocktail can be found in William Schmidt's "The Flowing Bowl", published in 1891. In it, he details a drink containing 2 dashes of gum (gomme syrup), 2 dashes of bitters, 1 dash of absinthe, 2/3 portion of whiskey and 1/3 portion of vermouth.
The same cocktail appears listed as a "Tennessee Cocktail" in Shake 'em Up! by V. Elliott and P. Strong, copyright 1930 (p. 39): "Two parts of whiskey, one part of Italian Vermouth and a dash of bitters poured over ice and stirred vigorously."
Traditions[edit]
On the small North Frisian island of Föhr, the Manhattan cocktail is a standard drink at almost every cafe restaurant, and "get together" of locals.[11] The story goes, that many of the people of Föhr emigrated to Manhattan during deep sea fishing trips, took a liking to the drink, and brought it back to Föhr with them. The drink is usually mixed 1 part (the 'perfect' is said to be half white/half red) vermouth to 2 parts whiskey, with a dash of bitters, served ice cold, in an ice cold glass, or with ice and a cherry garnish.
There is a mistaken belief that Manhattans are always stirred and never shaken, primarily to avoid persistent foaming. However such foaming now indicates either dirty equipment or less than premium quality ingredients. Traditions for both preparations go back to the late 1800s.[12]
Variations[edit]
A Manhattan served in a coupe
Traditional views insist that a Manhattan be made with American rye whiskey. However, more often than not, it is made with bourbon or Canadian whisky.[citation needed] The Manhattan is subject to considerable variation and innovation, and is often a way for the best bartenders to show off their creativity.[7] Some shake the ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker instead of stirring it, creating a froth on the surface of the drink. Angostura is the classic bitters, but orange bitters or Peychaud's Bitters may be used. Some make their own bitters and syrups, substitute comparable digestifs in place of vermouth, specialize in local or rare whiskeys, or use other exotic ingredients.[7] A lemon peel may be used as garnish. Some add juice from the cherry jar or Maraschino liqueur to the cocktail for additional sweetness and color.
Originally, bitters were considered an integral part of any cocktail, as the ingredient that differentiated a cocktail from a sling.[13] Over time, those definitions of cocktail and sling have become archaic, as sling has fallen out of general use (other than in certain drink names), and cocktail can mean any drink that resembles a martini, or simply any mixed drink.
The following are other variations on the classic Manhattan:
A Rob Roy is made with Scotch whisky.[7]
A Dry Manhattan is made with dry vermouth instead of sweet vermouth, usually also replacing the maraschino cherry with a twist in keeping with the overall principle of reducing the cocktail's sweetness. A Manhattan made with dry vermouth but retaining the cherry rather than twist is sometimes known as a "half-dry Manhattan," but this name risks confusion with the "Perfect Manhattan" (see below), whose quantity of vermouth consists of equal parts sweet vermouth and dry vermouth.[7]
A Perfect Manhattan is made with equal parts sweet and dry vermouth.[7]
A Brandy Manhattan is made with Brandy instead of whiskey and is very popular in Wisconsin and Minnesota.[14]
A Metropolitan is similar to a brandy Manhattan, but with a 3-to-1 ratio of brandy to vermouth.[15]
A Cuban Manhattan is a Perfect Manhattan with dark rum as its principal ingredient.[16]
A Tijuana Manhattan is made with an Añejo Tequila.[17]
The Fourth Regiment is a classic (ca. 1889) cocktail that uses a 1:1 ratio of whiskey and vermouth, and uses three dashes of three different bitters - orange bitters, celery bitters, and Peychaud's Bitters.[18]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Recipe for a Manhattan Cocktail from about.com
Jump up ^ http://mybestcocktails.com/recipe-21-Manhattan.html Recipe for a classic Manhattan Cocktail
Jump up ^ The Brooklyn Cocktail | Serious Eats : Recipes
Jump up ^ Holiday Cocktail Party from CocktailTimes.com
^ Jump up to: a b "Patrick Murphy's The Barman's Corner". Buckeye Tavern. 15 March 1945. pg. 6, col. 2. qtd. in "Moscow Mule; Molotov Cocktail; Manhattan Cocktail". The Linguist List. American Dialect Society. 28 October 2000. Archived from the original on 24 May 2008. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
Jump up ^ Winston Churchill, My Early Life
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Regan, Gary (September 21, 2007). "The Manhattan project: A bartender spills his secrets on the king of cocktails". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
Jump up ^ Bonisteel, Sara (22 May 2006). "Tipplers Toast the Cocktail on Its 200th 'Anniversary'". Fox News Network. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
Jump up ^ "Manhattan". Cocktail Times. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
Jump up ^ ref:blog The Bar Mixer Has Spoken... retrieved March 6 2013
Jump up ^ Essen und Trinken from Föhr-Digital.de
Jump up ^ Burkhart, Jeff (6 November 2010). "To shake or not to shake". marinij.com. Marin Independent Journal. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
Jump up ^ Levin, Steve (May 12, 2006). "The Origin of Cocktails". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
Jump up ^ OnMilwaukee.com Bars & Clubs: Wisconsinites love affair with brandy
Jump up ^ Felten, Eric (September 8, 2007). "In a League of Their Own: The Ivy League, That Is". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
Jump up ^ "Manhattan". Great Cocktails. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
Jump up ^ Donohue, Peter (Feb 2011) Azul 17 Tequila Lounge
Jump up ^ How to make the Fourth Regiment Cocktail - The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess
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