num_pages: 208
description: The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. - Humphrey BogartAt last here's your excuse to catch up. Introducing Let's Bring The Cocktail Edition  a compendium of long-forgotten libations due for a revival. Culled from ancient times through the 1960s these delectable vintage cocktails are by turns fizzy and silken sweet and tart lethal and prim. Some of them are absurd several are sentimental while others are outright scandalous. They - Angel's Tit - Guaranteed to shock goody-goodies- Du Barry - To get your mistress into the mood- Green-Eyed Monster - To serve to frenemies- Monkey Gland - An unlikely fountain of youth- Runt's Ambition - Serve this to men with Napoleon ComplexThroughout this illustrated tome Lesley M. M. Blume divulges colorful cocktail history and barroom wisdom alongside one hundred and forty-four recipes that will delight aperitif aficionados for years to come. Whether you're toasting to an unexpected windfall treating a malediction or simply need an occasion to let your hair down Let's Bring The Cocktails Edition has the bevvy for you.
language: English
title: Let's Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition: A Compendium of Impish, Romantic, Amusing, and Occasionally Appalling Potations from Bygone Eras
publisher: Chronicle Books