Straight Up or On the Rocks
Subtitle: The Story of the American Cocktail
Edition: Revised Edition edition
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: November 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780865476011
Subjects: History; Cocktails; Cooking / Wine; Cooking; United States; Beverages - Bartending; Beverages - Wine & Spirits; Cooking / Bartending; Alcoholic beverages
Description: After exploring the proto-cocktails of the early nineteenth century, Grimes tracks the rise of the saloon and the bartender, and the spread of the American cocktail to Europe the golden age of the cocktail, from 1880 to 1920, when classics such as the Bronx, Manhattan, martini, and daiquiri came into being the Jazz Age and the subterranean world of the speakeasy the post-Prohibition lull and the Cold War landscape of cocktails that followed the strange efflorescence of a Polynesian-influenced lounge culture and the recent resurgence that has produced a wave of exciting new drinks. (The martini, of course, gets a chapter of its own.) The book includes about one hundred recipes-half of them new for this edition-for both classics and innovations.