Martini, 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 do...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Full text available: |
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| Summary: | "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."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License. Revised edition of: The silver bullet / Lowell Edmunds. 1981. Originally published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1998. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 pages): illustrations (some color) |
| ISBN: | 9781421437699 |
| Access: | Open Access |