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Imbibe! Updated and Revised Edition : From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to Professor Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar by David Wondrich (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100399172610
ISBN-139780399172618
eBay Product ID (ePID)201658478
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Book TitleImbibe! Updated and Revised Edition : From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to Professor Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicBeverages / Alcoholic / General, Social History, Customs & Traditions, Beverages / Alcoholic / Bartending
FeaturesRevised
IllustratorYes
GenreCooking, Social Science, History
AuthorDavid Wondrich
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight16.8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-027096
Reviews"David Wondrich is a such an envy-producing polymath that it drives me to drink. Brilliant historian, beautiful writer, former punk rocker, absinthe-maker, mixological marvel, and perhaps, yes, even WIZARD. Plus he can grow an amazing beard. There are few people in the world I rely on to be so authoritative and so entertaining all at once, and to mix an amazing cocktail at the same time. And those few people are DAVID WONDRICH." -John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise "[Jerry] Thomas finally gets his due in Imbibe! ....Mr. Wondrich puts the drinks in context, with their ingredients explained, their measurements accurately indicated, and their place in the overall cocktail scheme clearly mapped out. At the same time, Thomas himself appears, for the first time, as a living presence: a devotee of bare-knuckle prize fights, a flashy dresser fond of kid gloves, an art collector, a restless traveler usually carrying a fat wad of bank notes and a gold Parisian watch. A player, in short." -William Grimes, The New York Times "This book will leave you shaken and, I hope, stirred. Wondrich, one of the top spirits writers in the country, delves into the rich and fascinating history of mixology in America." - USA Today " Imbibe brings back the delicious forgotten cocktails created by a pioneering American bon vivant....This book is a model for food history writing....[Wondrich is] always an enjoyable writer, curious, eager, mildly opinionated and with a taste for the amusing." - The Los Angeles Times "Cocktail connoisseurs and history buffs will find this book an essential addition to their reference libraries." - The San Francisco Chronicle "Wondrich offers what amounts to a history of industrial-age America writ in booze, covering everything from punches, fizzes, and sours to toddies, slings, and juleps." - Saveur , Top Ten Reads "How and why America rose to world preeminence in mixology is explained zestfully in Imbibe! ." - Forbes "With Imbibe! , David Wondrich's biography of 19-century mixologist Jerry Thomas, cocktails do the time warp." - New York Daily News "Wondrich delivers a well-researched chronicle of "Professor" Jerry Thomas's life and times as late 19th-century bartender extraordinaire...a lovely homage to Thomas's indomitable spirits." - Publishers Weekly "David Wondrich has drunk his way through two centuries of American cocktails and other mixed drinks. He emerges to tell us, with clarity and wit, what he encountered, how it was made. and how to make it now. In his recreations of the drinks of yesteryear, he stops at nothing, even growing his own snakeroot to make Jerry Thomas' Bitters. Thomas was called "the Professor" in his day. If this title belongs to any living expert on the cocktail, it belongs to Wondrich." -Lowell Edmunds, author of Martini, Straight Up
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThe newly updated edition of David Wondrich's definitive guide to classic American cocktails. Cocktail writer and historian David Wondrich presents the colorful, little-known history of classic American drinks--and the ultimate mixologist's guide--in this engaging homage to Jerry Thomas, father of the American bar. Wondrich reveals never-before-published details and stories about this larger-than-life nineteenth-century figure, along with definitive recipes for more than 100 punches, cocktails, sours, fizzes, toddies, slings, and other essential drinks, along with detailed historical and mixological notes. The first edition, published in 2007, won a James Beard Award. Now updated with newly discovered recipes and historical information, this new edition includes the origins of the first American drink, the Mint Julep (which Wondrich places before the American Revolution), and those of the Cocktail itself. It also provides more detail about 19th century spirits, many new and colorful anecdotes and details about Thomas's life, and a number of particularly notable, delicious, and influential cocktails not covered in the original edition, rounding out the picture of pre-Prohibition tippling. This colorful and good-humored volume is a must-read for anyone who appreciates the timeless appeal of a well-made drink-and the uniquely American history behind it.
LC Classification NumberTX951.W5663 2007
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- 22 Oct, 2015
Very Interesting History and Reference Book
Great and interesting book on the history of mixology in the U.S. Historical information on the origins and original mixed drink recipes and their evolution to present day cocktails. Worth a read, even if you don't "imbibe".Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 17 May, 2016
IMBINE
If; you want to learn to make a great cocktail from the past it is a must have book. Place it next to your bar for reference. Never had gin martini with a lemon twist? There good.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
