Let's Bring Back Cocktails

Description

Sidle up to the bar of a bygone era and enjoy a wide range of classic and forgotten cocktails with the author of Let's Bring Back. Throughout this illustrated compendium of the most romantic, amusing, delicious, and occasionally appalling drinks in barroom history, Lesley M.M. Blume winkingly imparts classic cocktail wisdom from glasses and garnishes to stylish sipping and the lost language of saloons, alongside dozens of recipes that are due for a comeback. Whether shaking up a fresh batch of Ants in the Pants, Fluffy Ruffles, of King's Ruin Cocktails, Let's Bring Back: Cocktails offers plenty of opportunities to raise a glass in salute to the great mixers, drinkers and thirst-quenchers of days gone by.

Lesley M.M. Blume is an author, journalist, editor, cultural observer and bon vivant based in NYC. She is the author of three critically-acclaimed children's novels, a frequent contributor to publication from Slate to Vogue, the contributing Style section editor at The Huffington Post, where her columns are often top-five destination features for the entire site. Now writing full-time Blume covers culture, politics and fashion (and sometimes the thorny politics of fashion).

Lets Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition is such good reading--it's a mix of cocktail lore, recipes, anecdotes, and quotations-that I think even a teetotaler would enjoy it. - The Paris Review it's a really cute book with nice illustrations and a good sense of humor all the way around. It should make a good gift book this year. --Alcademics B+ . A fun book for those looking to hearken back to the days before molecular mixology. -Good Spirits News Get tipsy together on bygone cocktails as you remember the year just past. - Vanity Fair Holiday Gift Guide Pick [a] charming trip into the libations and drunken lore of yesteryear. The Daily Beast Holiday Gift Guide Pick With this much festivity to pour over ice, who needs mistletoe? -New York Times If you're gifting a drinker, not an eater (and one with a sense of humor to boot), we suggest this little tome, subtitled A Compendium of Impish, Romantic, Amusing, and Occasionally Appalling Potations from Bygone Eras. Occasionally appalling? Sounds like fun to us. -Flavorwire Most books on vintage cocktails stick to the tried-and-true classics, but a new one fights for the underdog. The delightfully named Let's Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition: A Compendium of Impish, Romantic, Amusing, and Occasionally Appalling Potations from Bygone Eras by Lesley M. M. Blume is a humorous, illustrated book that lists recipes for lesser-known vintage drinks like the Laughing Soup, Gloom Lifter, and Battery Charger. --FineCooking.com This amusing book by Lesley M. M. Blume is the perfect conversation starter for your holiday party. With more than 100 classic and humorous vintage drink recipes, such as 'Ants in the Pants' and 'Green-Eyed Monster, ' Blume's history of cocktails and bars will have you laughing out loud as you mix. -Good Housekeeping