- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
A guide to the cultural history of liqueurs from a celebrated spirits journalist. The original recreational spirit, liqueurs traveled the Silk Road, awaited travelers at the Fountain of Youth, and traversed the globe from ancient times through the industrial revolution and beyond. In this thrilling exploration of liqueur's global history, Lesley Jacobs Solmonson describes how a bitter, medicinal elixir distilled by early alchemists developed into a sugar- and spice-fueled luxury for the rich before garnishing a variety of cocktails the world over. The book invites readers on a multi-faceted journey through culinary history, driven by humanity's ages-long desire for pleasure.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice
- 2 Information, Individuality and Independence
- 3 The Road to Enlightenment and Revolution
- 4 Invention, Industry and Commercialization: Drinking in Post-Revolutionary France
- 5 Bitter Pleasures
- 6 From the Flowing Bowl to the Cock-Tail
- 7 Twentieth-Century Blues
- 8 The New Golden Age
- Recipes
- Appendix: Catalogue of World Liqueurs
- Select Bibliography
- Websites and Associations
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index