Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail
- ISBN-10
- 0801873118
- ISBN-13
- 9780801873119
- Category
- Cooking
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-03-07
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Lowell Edmunds
Description
From its contested origins in nineteenth-century California; through its popularity among the smart set of the 1930s, world leaders of the 1940s, and the men in the gray flannel suits of the 1950s; to its resurgence among today's retro-hipsters: Lowell Edmunds traces the history and cultural significance of the cocktail H. L. Mencken called "the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet."
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