Jazz Age Cocktails : : History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Roaring Twenties / / Cecelia Tichi.

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 wondrous new devices lik...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Washington Mews Books ; 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 23 b/w illustrations
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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