Miller and Brown have uncovered something interesting in this respect, which suggests that the popularity of a hot sauce called Red Snapper may have inspired Astor or Petiot to change the name of their cocktail. "Oyster cocktails were enormously popular in turn of the century America," they writ...
Other honorees include Jenny Brown, founder of literary agency Jenny Brown Associates, who was given an OBE for services to literature; Nicholas Poole, past CEO of the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (OBE for services to libraries, to the arts and to museums); and Di...