The Booze-Lover's Guide to History: An Education in Intoxication by Jose Cree

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  • ISBN 10 178366018X
  • ISBN 13 9781783660186
  • Published Jun 10 2015
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 144
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Old House Books
  • Imprint Shire Publications Ltd

Publishers Text

From the bacchanals of Ancient Rome to the speakeasies of Prohibition New York and beyond, this alcoholic miscellany explores mankind's age-old love affair with booze. Eye-witness accounts, newspaper reports, drinkers' guides, long-neglected slang dictionaries, beautiful artwork and advertising, cocktail recipes and bartenders' wisdom; wine, gin, beer, bourbon, even absinthe - this lighthearted handbook has it all. Featuring the story of Bacchus, Roman god of winemaking; King John's excessive fondness for a drink; the Gin Craze of eighteenth-century London and the liquor-fuelled experience of the Moulin Rouge, it also includes a selection of historical cocktail recipes, including Ben Franklin's Milk Punch and a nineteenth-century Oxford student favourite that makes unexpected use of calf-foot jelly.