Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail
By (author): "Johns Hopkins University, Lowell Edmunds"
Genres:Drinking books
ISBN0801859719
ISBN139780801859717
AsinMartini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail
Original titleMartini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail
In this engaging look at the classic cocktail, Lowell Edmunds traces the history of the Martini back to its American origins in the nineteenth century. Exploring literary and dramatic works as well as newspapers, magazines, cartoons, bartenders' manuals, distillery brochures, and other documents of popular culture, Edmunds finds in the Martini's image the same ambiguities that characterize American life.