Midcentury Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Atomic Age

by Cecelia Tichi

A delightful history of cocktails from the era of new interstate highways, sprouting suburbs, and atomic engineering

America at midcentury was a nation on the move, taking to wings and wheels along the new interstate highways and in passenger jets that soared to thirty thousand feet. Anxieties rippled, but this new Atomic Age promised cheap power and future wonders, while the hallmark of the era was the pleasure of an evening imbibing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479816655
• ISBN13: 9781479816651
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Washington Mews Books/Nyu Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.1"