Harry MacElhone

Harry MacElhone (1890 – 1958) was a bartender, famous for his bar in Paris, Harry's New York Bar; his influential cocktail book, Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails; and for inventing or first publishing numerous classic cocktails.

Career MacElhone was born in Dundee, Scotland, on 16 June 1890. He began working at Ciro's Club in London after World War I, before moving to Paris and buying Harry's New York Bar in 1923.

Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails MacElhone published a series of cocktail books, in various editions and printings, commonly known as Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails, beginning with Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails in 1922, and ending with the twelfth version, the "New Edition" in 1952/53. Except for the last one, they were all from the interwar period (specifically 1922–1939). One book was published with a different title and somewhat different format, Barflies and Cocktails (1927), which corresponds to what would have been the seventh edition, having been published between the sixth edition and eighth editions. In fact, there was no ABC listed as a seventh edition, and prior to publication it was referred to as "the new edition of Harry's A.B.C. of Cocktails".

He is often credited with inventing many other cocktails, the Paradise, the Boulevardier, and an early form of the French 75.