In this episode I talk cocktails with Cecelia Tichi the author of so many wonderful books, but most recently Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age (Washington Mews Books)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">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).

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