Jazz Age Cocktails History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Roaring Twenties.

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How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go "underground""Roaring Twenties" America boasted famous firsts: women's right to vote, jazz music, talking motion pictures, flapper fashions, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tichi, Cecelia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2021.
Series:Washington Mews Bks.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Cocktails > United States.
Cocktails (Boissons) > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy).
Cocktails.
Manners and customs.
United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: A Jazz Age Cocktail
  • 1 The Cocktail Hour
  • 2 Criminal Intent
  • 3 Ballyhoo: The Modern Moment
  • 4 Newest New Woman
  • 5 All That Jazz
  • 6 Slinging Slang
  • 7 Génération perdue
  • 8 Wheels
  • 9 Rum- Runners, Rum Row, and the Real McCoy
  • 10 Bootlegging Ladies
  • 11 Drink, Drank, Drunk
  • 12 Winging It
  • 13 Harry's New York Bar, Paris
  • 14 The Silver Screen
  • 15 A "Dry" Christmas
  • 16 In the Money (While It Lasts)
  • 17 The Party's Over
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Cocktails
  • About the Author

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