Straight Up or On the Rocks or Choice Cuts

Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail

Author: William Grimes

The cocktail is as old as the nation that invented it, yet until this entertaining and authoritative account, its story had never been fully told. William Grimes traces the evolution of American drink from the anything-goes concoctions of the Colonial era to the frozen margarita, spiking his meticulously researched narrative with arresting details, odd facts, and colorful figures.

The book includes about one hundred recipes--half of them new for this edition--for both classics and innovations.

Playboy - Paul Engleman

William Grimes . . . does an expert job — mixing classic-drink recipes with wonderful accounts that will leave cocktail connoisseurs happy.

Booklist

Grimes's sophisticated writing combines with his thorough scholarship to mirror the mixology he documents.

The Boston Sunday Globe - Katherine Powers

A short, engrossing history of the concoction in all its variety.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Teresa Weaver

[Grimes's] enthusiasm for the subject is absolutely intoxicating.

Grimes . . . has written a perceptive, informative and sometimes amusing account of the shifts and swings in American drinking fashions.

New York Times

Grimes . . . has written a perceptive, informative and sometimes amusing account of the shifts and swings in American drinking fashions.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	The Martini: The king of cocktails and how it grew	3
2	Conceived in Liberty: Cut loose from England, the colonial settlers find that strange ingredients are no obstacle to making a good drink	15
3	First Stirrings: Heading west with whiskey on their minds, the pioneers make a remarkable discovery	29
4	Swinging Doors: In an era of opulence, the watering holes were as ornate as the cocktails	49
5	The Iceman Cometh: The big chill sets in, and the cocktail takes off	59
6	The Golden Age: The cocktails that made the quattrocento of American drink	71
7	The Jazz Age: The booze was bad, but the speakeasies were good	83
8	Reconstruction: America turns to the gray flannel cocktail	99
9	Vodka Uber Alles: From Russia with love, the ultimate cocktail fuel	113
10	The Cocktail Resurgent: The American cocktail rediscovers its roots, and flourishes anew	121
	Recipes	127
	Bibliography	165
	Acknowledgments	173
	Index	175

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Choice Cuts

Author: Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky is one of our most erudite and entertaining food writers: the bestselling author of Salt and Cod, winner of the prestigious James Beard Award for Excellence in Food Writing. Now in this delightful collection he serves up a true smorgasbord of "choice cuts" by the world's most discerning gourmets and gourmands through the ages-from Plato on the art of cooking to Louis Prima at the pizzeria.

Choice Cuts offers more than two hundred mouth-watering selections, including Brillat-Savarin on chocolate; Waverley Root on truffles; M. F. K. Fish on gingerbread; Pablo Neruda on French fries; Alexandre Dumas on coffee; and a vast variety by Escoffier, Elizabeth David, A. J. Liebling, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Dickens, Balzac, Chekhov, Orwell, and Alice B. Toklas, among others. Filled throughout with recipes, menus, classic photographs, and Kurlansky's own original drawings, Choice Cuts is a must-have for any serious lover of food.