Jazz Age Cocktails

Jazz Age Cocktails by Cecelia Tichi

9781479810123

168Pages

Publisher: NYU Press

Release Date: November 16, 2021

Nonfiction, Food & Wine, Cooking, History, 1920s

The book is divided into the following chapters.

1; The Cocktail Hour

2: Criminal Intent

3: Ballyhoo – The Modern Moment

4: Newest New Woman

5: All That Jazz

6: Slinging Slang

7: Generation perdue

8: Wheels

9: Rum-Runners, Rum Row, and the Real McCoy

10: Bootlegging Ladies

12: Drink, Drank, Drunk

12: Winging It

13: Harry’s New York Bar, Paris

14: The Silver Screen

15 A “Dry” Christmas

16 In the Money (While It Lasts)

17 The Party’s Over

I smiled at the mention of Sinclair Lewis since he is one of my favorite authors. In addition to recipes, the author includes the history of prohibition, bootleggers, and flappers. There is even a mention of Seneca Falls convention of feminists with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I learned that Ernest Hemingway disliked F. Scott Fitzgerald when they first met in Paris. Out of this book, the only drinks I recognized were the champagne cocktail, gin rickey, and bloody Mary. If you like cocktails, especially craft cocktails, you will enjoy this book.