Format:
1 Online-Ressource
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31 b/w illustrations
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9781479805266
Series Statement:
Washington Mews Books 13
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction "A Gilded Cocktail" -- 1 Olympians of the Bar "One more round, if you please . . . I'll have another." -- 2 A Chef and a Socialite Suggest . . . -- 3 To- Go Cup -- 4 Location, Location, Location -- 5 Spirited Cities -- 6 Oh, the Places They Toast! -- 7 Quaffing Collegians -- 8 Bubbles -- 9 "Demon Rum" -- 10 In Honor Of- -- 11 The Bitter(s) Truth -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary: From The Old Waldorf- Astoria Bar Book -- Bibliography -- Index of Cocktail Recipes -- About the Author
Content:
A delightful romp through America's Golden Age of CocktailsThe decades following the American Civil War burst with invention-they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane-but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the "cocktail." The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden Age of Cocktails, giving birth to the classic Manhattan and martini that can be ordered at any bar to this day. Scores of whiskey drinks, cooled with ice chips or cubes that chimed against the glass, proved doubly pleasing when mixed, shaken, or stirred with special flavorings, juices, and fruits. The dazzling new drinks flourished coast to coast at sporting events, luncheons, and balls, on ocean liners and yachts, in barrooms, summer resorts, hotels, railroad train club cars, and private homes.From New York to San Francisco, celebrity bartenders rose to fame, inventing drinks for exclusive universities and exotic locales. Bartenders poured their liquid secrets for dancing girls and such industry tycoons as the newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and the railroad king "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt.Cecelia Tichi offers a tour of the cocktail hours of the Gilded Age, in which industry, innovation, and progress all take a break to enjoy the signature beverage of the age. Gilded Age Cocktails reveals the fascinating history behind each drink as well as bartenders' formerly secret recipes. Though the Gilded Age cocktail went "underground" during the Prohibition era, it launched the first of many generations whose palates thrilled to a panoply of artistically mixed drinks
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781479805259
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9781479805259
Language:
English
DOI:
10.18574/9781479805266
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479805266
