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Cocktails Across America: A Postcard View of Cocktail Culture in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s
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Product Description 50 20th century cocktail recipes, illustrated with vintage postcards Cocktail culture boomed in the United States after Prohibition, starting with the jazz-filled cocktail lounges and elegant supper clubs in New York City and, as rail and automotive travel advanced, flowing all the way to the postwar-era resorts and cabaret night spots of California and beyond. Barkeepers and mixologists across the country were developing new-fangled concoctions like the Red Snapper, the Santa Fe Cooler, and Cooper’s Ranch Punch. A newly liberated America couldn’t get enough. The unique cocktail lounges, hotel bars, and other more exotic drinking venues (ice rinks, carousels, and tropical gardens, just to name a few) defined this era of drinking culture and were immortalized in the linen postcards used to advertise them. With over 50 vintage cocktail recipes (including several modern twists), fascinating historical vignettes, and more than 150 pieces of vintage ephemera, you will be transported to an era of unbridled indulgence and distinct glamour. 150 color illustrations Review "The diligent duo serve up page after page of lounges and restaurants across the country along with classic cocktails that were either created or served at those destinations. This is an impressive work that deserves a spot on the shelf of cocktail aficionados."- Publisher's Weekly "These beverages and bars, some of which have long since been forgotten, are revived in Cocktails Across America. Filled with history, cocktail recipes, and gorgeous postcards on nearly every page, the book itself is a piece of Americana." - Hudson Valley Magazine "Cocktails Across America has earned a permanent place in my book collection. It is one of the best-if not the best-cocktail book I've ever read. If you're a history buff, design nerd, or classic cocktail connoisseur, you'll want it in your collection too." - Faith Middleton, host of the Food Schmooze, National Public Radio. "Now that you can find well-made cocktails in every major city, it's the perfect time to drink your way across the USA and its territories. But if plane tickets aren't in your cards at the moment, Cocktails Across America showcases the highlights of regional drinking culture and the local circumstances that birthed some of America's most famous cocktails." - Dan Q. Dao, Food and Wine Magazine "Over the last 20 years, a flood of liquor books has been published, but impressively Diane Lapis and Anne Peck-Davis have found a thoroughly original way to tell the history of classic drinks in their new book Cocktails Across America by using vintage postcards. The book is lavishly illustrated and even comes with a section of [pullout] postcards." - Noah Rothbaum, The Daily Beast About the Author Diane Lapis has collected postcards for the past thirty years and revels in unveiling the hidden stories behind each image. She loves to travel and visit historic places, especially old bars and cocktail lounges. Diane is an independent researcher and a trustee at the Beacon Historical Society where she researches, writes, and presents topics on local history. Diane and her husband live in Beacon, NY. Anne Peck-Davis is an avid collector of linen postcards, vintage cocktail books, and mid-century artifacts. Her significant collection of antique postcards has provided her the opportunity to lecture at various interest groups and contribute to regional journals. Living on a fir-lined street in a suburb of New York City, Anne enjoys mixing cocktails for her friends and family earning her the nickname “The Cocktail Queen of Evergreen.
