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OLD FASHION anglicism for MODA ANTIGUA; cocktail made with sugar, biter, whiskey, and garnished with a citrus twist. It is the first cocktail in history. It is traditionally served in an Old Fashioned glass, also known as a rock glass, which named the cocktail. Created in the 1880s by Colonel James E. Pepper who popularized it by taking it to the bar of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, although he created it in the Pendennis Club gentlemen's club of Louisville Kentucky, to which the colonel belonged. It is an official COCKTAIL OF THE IBA.