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The Shaken and the Stirred : The Year's Work in Cocktail Culture /
"Over the past decade, the popularity of cocktails has returned with gusto. Amateur and professional mixologists alike have set about recovering not just the craft of the cocktail, but also its history, philosophy, and culture. The Shaken and the Stirred features essays written by distillers, b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- part 1: Muddled Mythologies. "The greatest of all the contributions of the American way of life to the salvation of humanity": on the prehistory of the American cocktail / Jonathan Elmer ; The boulevardier: craft, industrialism, and the nostalgic origin / Antonio Ceraso ; A continued stream of fire: Professor Jerry Thomas invents the "Blue Blazer" / Christoph Irmscher ; The Sazerac mixing ritual: storytelling, parody, and New Orleans / Joseph Turner ; My first time / Albert W. A. Schmid
- part 2: Spirits of the age. "They made me feel civilized": The martini as modernist culture / Michael Coyle ; At home with postwar cocktail culture and the cocktail dress / Lori Hall-Araujo ; Middlebrow cosmopolitanism and the Canadian cocktail / Lisa Sumner ; Absolut psychosis / Craig N. Owens ; Joy Perrine and the bourbon cocktail's renaissance / Susan Reigler
- part 3: Mixed messages. Inventing margarita: femininity, fantasy, and consumption / Marie Sarita Gaytán ; Polynesian paralysis: Tiki culture and the aesthetics of American Empire / Andrew Pilsch ; The Irish car bomb (and one other "disreputable" cocktail) / Stephen Watt ; Bar trek / William Biferie ; The taming of the shrub (Dan Callaway)
- part 4: In a glass, darkly. The lingering louche: absinthe, the green demon of alternative modernity / Aaron Jaffe ; Rye take on the past-The old-fashioned cocktail: A glass of crooning sophistication / Judith Roof ; Cocktails that aren't cocktails for gentlemen who aren't men: recovering the metaphorical body of the fictional drinker / Michael Lewis ; The Manhattan / Edward P. Comentale ; The cold, gray dawn of the morning after: hangover cures and the inevitability of excess / Stephen Schneider.