Martini, straight up
Subtitle: the classic American cocktail
By: Lowell Edmunds.
Contributors: Edmunds, Lowell.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Martinis.; Drinking customs -- United States -- History.
Description: "In this engaging look at the classic cocktail, Lowell Edmunds traces the history of the Martini back to its American origins in the nineteenth century. Exploring literary and dramatic works as well as newspapers, magazines, cartoons, bartenders' manuals, distillery brochures, and other documents of popular culture, Edmunds finds in the Martini's image the same ambiguities that characterize American life."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-145) and index.
Rev. ed of: The silver bullet / Lowell Edmunds. 1981.