What a Swell Party It Was! (eBook)

Rediscovering Food & Drink from the Golden Age of the American Nightclub

Michael Turback (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
168 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-2779-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Relish in the Reverie and Revelry of Yesteryear with Recipes from Twenty-Five of History’s Most Iconic Entertainment Hot Spots

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Chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud once explained: The future of cooking is about how we can rewrite the history of itits important to keep the memory and be entertained by it and inspired by it. What A Swell Party It Was! entertains and inspires with a delicious slice of nearly forgotten culinary historyan era that followed the Great Depression and prohibitions repeal, where America boomed and the nightclub scene flourished.Opening this book is like swinging open the doors to another time and place, when big city life was a unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality. It spotlights twenty-five legendary clubs that thrived in the 1930s and 40s, just as Jazz exploded into mainstream popularity and alcohol was no longer illegal to serve. Through these pages and recipes, enter past the proverbial velvet rope into establishments forever-immortalized, such as Chez Paree in Chicago, Caf Trocadero in Hollywood, The Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, The Blue Room in New Orleans, and New York Citys Cotton Club. In addition to including entre, appetizer, dessert, and cocktail recipes from their original menus, each featured venue will be introduced with vivid anecdotes and history, narrated in a breezy style and illustrated with reproductions of vintage menu covers, beverage napkins, matchbooks, postcards, and rare photos.An unabashedly joyful journey and a deeply authentic perspective on American culture in a rich, tumultuous age, What a Swell Party It Was! promises a cookbook/cocktail guide with a tip of the hat to history, crammed with details that bring life again to a fascinating American era.

Autor

Michael Turback not only created and nurtured one of Upstate New York’s first destination restaurants, he built a reputation around his ability to stalk, procure, and support the best of local food and wine. The Los Angeles Times called Turback’s “the first Finger Lakes restaurant to really devote itself to New York’s culinary and enological bounty.” A true culinary pioneer, his efforts sparked trends that are seen throughout the hospitality industry today. He is the author of a culinary trilogy (Hot Chocolate, Mocha, and Coffee Drinks), and has taken on, in print, such topics as the ice cream sundae, the banana split, artisan cocktails, food and cocktail pairings, and the pleasures of Finger Lakes Wine Country. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: alchoholic drink recipes • American nightclubs • bartending drinks • bartending for dummies • bartending menu • bartending recipes • basic drinks • Chez Paree • Christmas cocktails • cocktail bar • cocktail bitters • cocktail garnishes • cocktail hour • cocktail recipes • Cocoanut Grove • Cotton Club:Copa Cabana • Dancing • Dixieland • drink basics • drink recipes • drinks every bartender should know • easy cocktails • Frank Sinatra • Glenn Miller • Historical Biographies • History • history books for adults • homemade cocktails • homemade mocktails • Jazz • La Conga • martini recipes • Martinis • men in history • mimosa recipes • mixed drink recipes • mixed drinks • mixer • Mixing • Mixology • mocktail cookbook • mocktail recipes • Mocktails • Night Club • non alchoholic recipes • Prohibition • punch bowl • punch recipes • roaring 20s • shaken drinks • simple cocktails • simple mocktails • Swing • The Great Depression • tropical punch • Wars • Women in History • World War I • World War II • xmas cocktails
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-2779-5 / 1510727795
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-2779-3 / 9781510727793