Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails: 100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them

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Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails: 100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them by Ted Haigh, includes drink recipes like The Blue Moon, The Monkey Gland, and The Vesper.

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Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails
From the Alamagoozlum to the Zombie and Beyond

100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them

by Ted Haigh a.k.a. Dr. Cocktail

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Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails enthusiastically invokes the exotic tastes and styles of bygone eras. This book is an homage to the grand beverages and great bartenders of the past, and drink aficionado Ted Haigh honors and remembers them with persuasive sips of the lost cocktails they created.

This revised and expanded deluxe edition features 100 delicious and hard-to-find authentic recipes for vintage cocktails you can make at home. The recipes span two hundred years with some from the nineteenth century, some from the Prohibition era, and some from after World War II. The vintage illustrations, bottles, and cocktail artifacts that accompany the history and the recipes are all from Haigh's vast collection.

Recipes featured in Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails include:

The Algonquin

Golden Dawn

The Blue Moon

The Rose

The Derby

The Straits Sling

The Amarosa

Diki-Diki

The Lion's Tail

For help with finding and ordering uncommon ingredients, Haigh includes a resource guide with vendor listings. This edition also profiles pioneers of the cocktail resurgence—the twenty-five most influential online voices of the cocktail world.

About the Author

Ted Haigh has been diligently researching cocktails since the '80s. He hosted the America Online Food & Drink Network's Cocktail & Spirits forums, has been quoted and referenced by the New York Times, Esquire, The Malt Advocate, and Men's Journal, and on National Public Radio. He is co-founder and a partner in CocktailDB.com: The Internet Cocktail Database, a columnist for Imbibe Magazine, and the curator of The Museum of the American Cocktail.

Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails
From the Alamagoozlum to the Zombie and Beyond
100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them
by Ted Haigh
Quarry Books 2009
$19.99; hardcover; 352 pages; 400 photos/illustrations
ISBN-10: 1592535615
ISBN-13: 978-1-59253-561-3
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