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Gilded Age Cocktails
eBook - History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age
ISBN/EAN: 9781479805280
Umbreit-Nr.: 1771855
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S.
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Erschienen am 04.05.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
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DRM: Adobe DRM
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- <p><b>A delightful romp through Americas Golden Age of Cocktails</b><br><br>The decades following the American Civil War burst with inventionthey saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplanebut no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the cocktail.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<i>Gilded Age Cocktails</i> 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.</p>
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- <b>Cecelia Tichi</b> is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University. Her books include<i>Jazz Age Cocktails</i>,<i>Gilded Age Cocktails</i>,<i>What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age</i> and<i>Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America</i>. Her mystery fiction includes the Val and Roddy DeVere Gilded series, set in the Gilded Age. Her website: https://www.cecebooks.com.