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Umfang: 1 online resource : , 23 b/w illustrations

ISBN: 9781479810154

Serie: Washington Mews Books ; 14

Inhalt: How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go “underground”“Roaring Twenties” America boasted famous firsts: women’s right to vote, jazz music, talking motion pictures, flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices like the safety razor and the electric vacuum cleaner. The privations of the Great War were over, and Wall Street boomed. The decade opened, nonetheless, with a shock when Prohibition became the law of the land on Friday, January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment banned “intoxicating liquors.” Decades-long campaigns to demonize alcoholic beverages finally became law, and America officially went “dry.”American ingenuity promptly rose to its newest challenge. The law, riddled with loopholes, let the 1920s write a new chapter in the nation’s saga of spirits. Men and women spoke knowingly of the speakeasy, the bootlegger, rum-running, black ships, blind pigs, gin mills, and gallon stills. Passwords (“Oscar sent me”) gave entrée to night spots and supper clubs where cocktails abounded, and bartenders became alchemists of timely new drinks like the Making Whoopee, the Petting Party, the Dance the Charleston. A new social event—the cocktail party staged in a private home—smashed the gender barrier that had long forbidden “ladies” from entering into the gentlemen-only barrooms and cafés. From the author of Gilded Age Cocktails, this book takes a delightful new romp through the cocktail creations of the early twentieth century, transporting readers into the glitz and (illicit) glamour of the 1920s. Spirited and richly illustrated, Jazz Age Cocktails dazzles with tales of temptation and temperance, and features charming cocktail recipes from the time to be recreated and enjoyed.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction: A Jazz Age Cocktail -- , 1 The Cocktail Hour -- , 2 Criminal Intent -- , 3 Ballyhoo: The Modern Moment -- , 4 Newest New Woman -- , 5 All That Jazz -- , 6 Slinging Slang -- , 7 Génération perdue -- , 8 Wheels -- , 9 Rum- Runners, Rum Row, and the Real McCoy -- , 10 Bootlegging Ladies -- , 11 Drink, Drank, Drunk -- , 12 Winging It -- , 13 Harry’s New York Bar, Paris -- , 14 The Silver Screen -- , 15 A “Dry” Christmas -- , 16 In the Money (While It Lasts) -- , 17 The Party’s Over -- , Acknowledgments -- , Bibliography -- , Index of Cocktails -- , About the Author , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479810154

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Umfang: 159 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 21 cm.

ISBN: 978-1-4798-1012-3

Serie: Washington mews

Inhalt: ""Roaring Twenties" America boasted famous firsts: women's right to vote under the Constitution's Nineteenth Amendment, jazz music, talking motion pictures, Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, Flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices like the safety razor and the electric vacuum cleaner. The decade opened, nonetheless, with a shock when Prohibition became the law of the land on Friday, January 16, 1920. American ingenuity promptly rose to its newest challenge. The law, riddled with loopholes, let the 1920s write a new chapter in the nation's saga of spirits. Men and women spoke knowingly of the speakeasy, the bootlegger, of rum-running, black ships, blind pigs, gin mills, and gallon stills. A new social event-the cocktail party staged in a private home-smashed the gender barrier that had long forbidden "ladies" from entering into the gentlemen-only barrooms and cafés. The drinks, savored in secret, were all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker went "underground." The danger of the illicit liquor trade was also memorialized in drinks like the "Original Gangster," the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre," the "Tommy Gun," and others. Crime rose, fortunes were amassed, and a slew of new cocktails were shaken, stirred, and poured in hideaways to brand the "roaring" 1920s as the era of "Alcohol and Al Capone.""--

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4798-1015-4

Sprache: Englisch