How's Your Drink?: Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well

by Eric Felten

Overview

Based on the popular feature in the Saturday Wall Street Journal, How's Your Drink illuminates the culture of the cocktail. John F. Kennedy played nuclear brinksmanship with a gin and tonic in his hand. Teddy Roosevelt took the witness stand to testify that six mint juleps over the course of his presidency did not make him a drunk. Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Chandler both did their part to promote the gimlet. Eric Felten tells all of these stories and many more, and also offers exhaustively researched cocktail recipes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781572841017
Publisher:	Agate
Publication date:	04/28/2009
Edition description:	First Trade Paper Edition
Pages:	207
Sales rank:	544,781
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Apertif     1
Of Ice and Men     9
Slam, Bang, Tang     31
Straight Up     47
On the Rocks     59
Libation Tribulations     95
How Sweet It Is     115
Cocktails and Combat     145
Here's How! (and Where)     155
The Spirits of Christmas     177
Nightcap     189
Index     195
Acknowledgments     205