商品簡介
In 48 recipes and dozens of photos, a lively and informative guide to the most popular cocktails from Prohibition to the present day
Did you know there were 32,000 speakeasies in New York City during Prohibition? And that most of the cocktails we know today were invented by Americans who fled prohibition for France or Germany after the country went dry? Indeed, Prohibition was the Golden Years for the Cocktail!
Here’s a book full of stories, photos, and trivia . . . to be enjoyed alone or with friends . . . but always responsibly! This is just a small sample:
‧ The Bloody Mary was first mixed in the early 1920s by an Ohio-born bartender named Fernand “Pete” Petiot, at the Paris bar that would be later known as Harry’s New York Bar.
‧ A mother, afraid that her daughter might drink at parties, also became a major bootlegger, rolling gin barrels around the living room to “age” them before 5 p.m.
‧ Included are select recipes from Cocktail Recipes Mixed by Famous People for a Famous Hotel, whose contributors include Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Marx Brothers, Marlene Dietrich, H.L. Mencken, W.C. Fields.
作者簡介
PAUL DICKSON is the author of more than sixty-five nonfiction books and hundreds of magazine articles. Although he has written on a variety of subjects from ice cream to kite flying to electronic warfare, he now concentrates on writing about the American language, baseball and twentieth-century history. His most recent titles includeThe Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Sputnik: The Shock of the Century,and Slang: A Topical Dictionary of Americanisms.
