In the first of their Christmas spirit episodes, Anne and Drea are visited by the ghost of gin past. Anne tells Drea all about the London gin craze and they share a beet and ginger gin martini.

Recommendations include: Future Gin and Gin Mare, baked brie and artichoke dip, short stories by the writer Saki, especially “Bertie’s Christmas Eve,” and the novel The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker.

Want to learn more about the history of gin? Check out Gin: A Global History by Lesley Jacobs Solomonson or “The Intoxicating History of Gin” by Anthony Lane, published in The New Yorker.

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