Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age (Washington Mews Books)

by Cecelia Tichi

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A delightful romp through America's Golden Age of Cocktails
The 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,...

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  • ISBN10 1479805254
  • ISBN13 9781479805259
  • Publish Date 1 May 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint New York University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 176
  • Language English