Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age

by Cecelia Tichi

A delightful romp through America's Golden Age of Cocktails

The decades following the American Civil War burst with invention--they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane--but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the "cocktail."

The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden Age of Cocktails, giving birth to the classic Manhattan and martini that can be ordered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479805254
• ISBN13: 9781479805259
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"