The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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Gilded Age Cocktails
Ep. 2
In this episode I talk cocktails with Cecelia Tichi the author of so many wonderful books, but most recently Gilded Age Cocktails. Tichi shares stories of the bars, mixologists, and imbibers that gloried in the Golden Age of drinking, not long before Prohibition.
Essential Reading:
Cecelia Tichi, Golden Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age (2021).
Recommended Reading:
- David Wondrich, Imbibe: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar (2015).
- Philip Greene, To Have and Have Another Revised Edition: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion (2015).
- Wayne Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails (2007).