Straight Up Or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail

ISBN-10: 086547656X
ISBN-13: 9780865476561
Category: Cooking
Pages: 208
Language: English
Published: 2002-10-16
Publisher: Macmillan
Author: William Grimes

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A revised and expanded social history of social drinking and the cocktail in America discusses 350 years of drinking history--from colonial taverns to today's watering holes--and features more than one hundred recipes, including many new ones, for the most interesting and enduring beverages. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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