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The first edition, published in 2007, won a James Beard Award. Now updated with newly discovered recipes and historical information, this updated 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' life, and a number of particularly notable, delicious, and influential cocktails not covered in the original edition.

Shortlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Award An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the world’s foremost cocktail writers. Consider the Negroni. The bittersweet cocktail dating to the early 1900s is made of equal parts gin, sweet vermouth and...

Rum has been the drink of rebels since the Old World. Now, there's a new generation of rebels—the business women curating the taste of today's best rum companies. Rum Rebels is a story of female empowerment in a traditionally male-dominated industry. Each chapter of Rum Rebels profiles women in leadership, their rum, and the perfect cocktail pairing. Alongside women leaders and pioneers, this worldwide master class explores everything from palates to aging, providing first-hand stories from today's leading rum distilleries.

Three friends. Three drinks. True crime, straight up.Criminals & Cocktails feels like a true‑crime night with friends: thoughtful, unfiltered, compassionate, and occasionally hilarious. It’s a podcast for listeners who want real facts, real reactions, and real connection served straight up, shaken, and finished with a twist. New episodes weekly.

Journeying through the decades, this book profiles a diverse array of influential hostesses. With each historic era comes iconic recipes, featuring a total of forty main cocktails and more than 100 variations that listeners can make at home. Whether its happy hour punch a la Martha Washington or a Harlem Renaissance-inspired Green Skirt, listeners will find that many of the ingredients and drinks they're familiar with today wouldn't be here without the hostesses who served them first.

Listen in as we chat about our history, becoming a craft distillery, and sip on a few excellent spirits. This is the Cultivated Cocktails story as we know it so far. Documenting where we have been and the pieces that make us who we are today, as well as what comes our way as we go along. Join us on our journey. As true natives of the Asheville NC area, the Howard family have raised generations in WNC. In 2012, they decided to start what was to become Asheville's first proper distillery to distill gin and rum since prohibition. With careful planning, research & development, and a burning desire...

A podcast run by two best friends aimed at quenching your morbid curiosity with stories from true crime and paranormal activity to conspiracy and unsolved mysteries...with the help of a few cocktail recipes along the way.

Crime, Corruptions & Cocktails will focus on reviewing cases of police, corporation, and government corruption and negligence. We will take at look the different elements of corruptions and how people's lives are often dramatically affected by forces outside of their control.

Half true crime and half paranormal/history's mysteries every episode! Join us every week for true crime stories, laughs, and a cocktail and two!

Four lifelong friends and family members enjoy drinks while dissecting true crime stories from all over the New England region.

A weekly show where we talk about the many aspects of the alcohol world. We’ll get a little in depth on a beer, wine, or liquor style, as well as have a signature cocktail that you’re gonna learn about whether you like it or not! Brought to you by City-Wide Liquors

Distillate is a narrative podcast about the history, science, culture, and human stakes behind what people drink. Not technique. Not recipes. The story — the people, the chemistry, the politics, the accidents, and the moments in history where what was in the glass reflected something larger about the world.Rum built an empire on the back of slavery and molasses waste. Gin brought 18th-century London to its knees before it became a symbol of craft and refinement. Coffee didn't just wake people up — it reorganized how they thought, and built the institutions of the Enlightenment in the ...

A lively podcast about aviation, air travel, the aeronautics industry, and more!

Its really just a big party! Our party podcats sip cocktails and gossip about some of the most insane crime documentaries on TV. You may get all the details or you may just have a lot of fun hearing commentary on the things you never even noticed. It really depends how many cocktails they've had. So pick up a drink, pick an episode & come have some fun with us! :) Jess & The Kitties

In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes on an adventure in vintage spirits. This is an intoxicating story of obsessives on the hunt for old bottles of whiskey, tequila, rum, chartreuse—you name it—from estate sales, grandpa's liquor cabinet, and out-of-the-way and inner-city liquor stores that may just have a case or a few bottles lying around in the basement.