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Long before the trend of the mixologist, there were just bartenders. I was a bartender.

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Keith R. Higgons
May 17, 2021
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Long before the trend of the mixologist, there were just bartenders. I was a bartender.

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With the foodie explosion over the past 20 years, the long-respected profession of the bartender is inching its way towards extinction. They’ve been usurped by the upstarts known as “mixologists.”

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