The Delmonico glass is the shortest member of the highball family. It was first used to hold the restaurant’s house tipple—a blend of gin, brandy and vermouth—but was subsequently used to hold fizzes and Rickeys.

The Nick and Nora glass is a stemmed glass that is used for serving stirred or shaken cocktails. Drinks served in a Nick and Nora glass are considered “up,” and should never be served with ice (if you want your drink on the rocks, use an Old-Fashioned glass or highball glass).

A Coupette Glass is a slightly larger and rounded approach to a cocktail glass and has a broad-rim for holding salt, ideal for margarita’s. It is also used in daiquiris and other fruit drinks.

The hurricane glass is a tall, curved glass that’s shaped like a hurricane lamp or vase. If a recipe calls for a hurricane glass and you don’t have one on hand, you can always use a highball glass instead. The hurricane glass was likely invented at Pat O’Brien’s bar in New Orleans, sometime in the 1940s.

The zombie glass is a specialty glass for a drink known as the zombie. The zombie and Collins glass are both traditionally straight sided and narrow glasses, fashioned wit frosted glass. These two glasses are designed for longer drinks (the Collins drink, or the Zombie for example) and typically hold 10 ounces.

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The highball glass can be used to serve these cocktails: Rum and Coke.

The Nick & Nora Martini is named for characters in “The Thin Man,” a novel by Dashiell Hammett. The tale was originally published in Redbook magazine in 1933 and then published in book form the following year and subsequently made into a popular series of movies.

Legend has it the shape of the coupe was modelled on the left breast of the French Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France, but the glass was designed in England over a century earlier especially for sparkling wine and champagne in 1663.

Coupe glasses are stemmed, and typically defined by their broad, shallow saucer. They’re exclusively used for serving “up” drinks, meaning cocktails that are shaken or stirred until chilled and served without ice (as opposed to “on the rocks”). The stem prevents your hand from warming it up too quickly.

An old-fashioned glass is usually defined as a short, cylindrical tumbler glass with a thick base and straight sides, though many variations exist. It’s primarily used to serve drinks on the rocks (over ice), but can also be used for certain neat drinks like the Sazerac.

Q: How did a hurricane lamp gets its name? A: The name is a reference to the glass shade’s ability to protect candle flames from sudden drafts. “Hurricane” is the name for a tall cylindrical or barrel-shaped glass dome placed around a candlestick to protect the flame from drafts.

At its most basic, though, a Delmonico steak is a big steak — possibly up to two inches thick. And it should be a very high-quality piece of meat, with plenty of marbling. Furthermore, it needs come from somewhere in the rib or short loin section of the beef.

It is unclear exactly when this Imperial mark was first found on glass, but its use ceased after the late 1920s. It was used on a variety of different types of glassware. 14 of 21

The term Delmonico steak can mean a lot of things, and there is little agreement about precisely what steak it correctly refers to. In fact, about the only thing people seem to agree on is that it’s named for Delmonico’s, a steak house in New York where it’s said to originate.

Most Fostoria pieces are not marked and must be identified by the pattern and/or etching found on the piece. This type of acid etched mark was used during the 1970s on many Navarre pieces, according to “Collectible Glassware from the 40s, 50s, and 60s” by Gene Florence.