Put on your Peaky Blinders Irish step-dancing hat and mix together some bathtub gin and bitters, we’ve made it back to the Roaring Twenties. When it comes to nostalgia entertainment the sweet spot seems to be 20 – 30 years. With shows like Stranger Things reminding us of The Goonies and E.T. from the 80s… Continue reading Welcome to the Roaring Twenties
Tag: Prohibition
Prohibition Era Cocktails: The Mary Pickford
Born in Toronto as Gladys Marie Smith, Mary Pickford became the biggest celebrity of the Silent Era. She came to be known as “The Girl with the Golden Curls” and “America’s Sweetheart.” Mary was possibly the first celebrity to shrewdly make sure her public persona as America’s Sweetheart stayed in tact. She was never pictured… Continue reading Prohibition Era Cocktails: The Mary Pickford
Prohibition Era Cocktails: Black Velvet
It’s Friday the 13th and what better drink to have on a day like today than a Black Velvet. This drink originates way before Prohibition. It’s said that after Prince Albert died in 1861 the steward at the Brook’s Club in London wanted everything in mourning, even the champagne. So we have this half Guinness… Continue reading Prohibition Era Cocktails: Black Velvet
Prohibition Era Cocktails: The Daiquiri
It’s widely accepted that Jennings Stockton Cox is the man who invented the Daiquiri in the Cuban town of, well, Daiquirií in 1898. But it was the bartender at the El Floridita, Constantino Ribalaigua Vert who crafted the drink for Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gary Cooper and of course Ernest Hemingway, made El Floridita in… Continue reading Prohibition Era Cocktails: The Daiquiri
Drink Like A Character: The Don Draper Old Fashioned
It’s not called old for nothing, this is likely one of the earliest North American cocktails with it first being referenced in 1806 (that’s during Thomas Jefferson’s administration. That’s old). Aside from Don Draper, this was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s favorite drinks, along with the Dirty Martini. Harry Truman also enjoyed his Old Fashioned’s,… Continue reading Drink Like A Character: The Don Draper Old Fashioned
Prohibition Cocktails: Reppin’ NYC
Start spreadin’ the news. Here’s some drink recipes named after some of the boroughs of Newww Yooorrrrkkkk. Sorry. Sorry. Three of the five boroughs had some pretty popular drinks back when American’s weren’t allowed to drink and did anyway, but only one of them is still consumed on the regular. These drinks are a part… Continue reading Prohibition Cocktails: Reppin’ NYC
Prohibition Cocktails: The Bee’s Knees
This is a recipe from the book Contraband Cocktails by Paul Dickson. I’m going to try to get through all of these and write about them eventually. In order to do so I need to get my hand on some absinthe which is not cheap. When we set up a Patreon it’s the important things… Continue reading Prohibition Cocktails: The Bee’s Knees
Prohibition
The Volstead Act January 17, 1920 that was the day the Volstead Act (the 18th Amendment) went into effect. Like ObamaCare, that wasn’t the official name of the National Prohibition Act. It was nicknamed after Andrew Volstead a Congressman from Minnesota who introduced the bill. I’m going through a few books and recreating some Prohibition… Continue reading Prohibition
Drink Like A Character: Gin Rickey, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice. Gatsby took up his drink.“They certainly look cool,” he said, with visible tension. We drank in long, greedy swallows.”– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Entirely out of context, doesn’t that just sound like peer pressure to you? If you changed it up and… Continue reading Drink Like A Character: Gin Rickey, The Great Gatsby (1925)