Martini, Straight Up The Classic American Cocktail

"In this engaging look at the classic cocktail, Lowell Edmunds traces the history of the Martini back to its American origins in the nineteenth century. Exploring literary and dramatic works as well as newspapers, magazines, cartoons, bartenders' manuals, distillery brochures, and other do...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Edmunds, Lowell, author (author), Edmunds, Lowell (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johns Hopkins University Press
Edición:Revised edition
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Sumario:"In this engaging look at the classic cocktail, Lowell Edmunds traces the history of the Martini back to its American origins in the nineteenth century. Exploring literary and dramatic works as well as newspapers, magazines, cartoons, bartenders' manuals, distillery brochures, and other documents of popular culture, Edmunds finds in the Martini's image the same ambiguities that characterize American life."--Jacket.
Notas:Originally published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1998
Revised edition of: The silver bullet / Lowell Edmunds. 1981.
The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License
Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxix, 153 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-145) and index.