David Wondrich is one of the world's foremost authorities on cocktails and their history, and one of the founders of the current craft cocktail movement. Esquire's long-time Cocktail Correspondent, he also writes for a host of other magazines on the subject, and when he's not writing about it, he's probably lecturing on it--or resting his liver. Dr. Wondrich holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature, is the winner of five Tales of the Cocktail Spirit Awards for his writing and is a partner in Beverage Alcohol Resource, the world's leading advanced education program in spirits and cocktails. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This isn't just nostalgia or hipster, artisanal stuff or
tongue-in-cheek. David Wondrich is a serious historian that
recognized that an American art form had been interrupted in its
prime. And it would actually take serious painstaking work to
revive it...Because of him, more than because of anybody else, we
are in the midst of a national renaissance, something that we by
right own as a country.
--Rachel Maddow
David Wondrich is a such an envy-producing polymath that it
drives me to drink. Brilliant historian, beautiful writer, former
punk rocker, absinthe-maker, mixological marvel, and perhaps, yes,
even WIZARD. Plus he can grow an amazing beard. There are few
people in the world I rely on to be so authoritative and so
entertaining all at once, and to mix an amazing cocktail at the
same time. And those few people are DAVID WONDRICH.
--John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise [Jerry]
Thomas finally gets his due in Imbibe!....Mr. Wondrich puts the
drinks in context, with their ingredients explained, their
measurements accurately indicated, and their place in the overall
cocktail scheme clearly mapped out. At the same time, Thomas
himself appears, for the first time, as a living presence: a
devotee of bare-knuckle prize fights, a flashy dresser fond of kid
gloves, an art collector, a restless traveler usually carrying a
fat wad of bank notes and a gold Parisian watch. A player, in
short.
--William Grimes, The New York Times This book will leave you
shaken and, I hope, stirred. Wondrich, one of the top spirits
writers in the country, delves into the rich and fascinating
history of mixology in America.
--USA Today Imbibe brings back the delicious forgotten
cocktails created by a pioneering American bon vivant....This book
is a model for food history writing....[Wondrich is] always an
enjoyable writer, curious, eager, mildly opinionated and with a
taste for the amusing.
--The Los Angeles Times Cocktail connoisseurs and history
buffs will find this book an essential addition to their reference
libraries.
--The San Francisco Chronicle Wondrich offers what amounts to
a history of industrial-age America writ in booze, covering
everything from punches, fizzes, and sours to toddies, slings, and
juleps.
--Saveur, Top Ten Reads How and why America rose to
world preeminence in mixology is explained zestfully in
Imbibe!.
--Forbes With Imbibe!, David Wondrich's biography of
19-century mixologist Jerry Thomas, cocktails do the time warp.
--New York Daily News Wondrich delivers a well-researched
chronicle of Professor Jerry Thomas's life and times as late
19th-century bartender extraordinaire...a lovely homage to Thomas's
indomitable spirits.
--Publishers Weekly David Wondrich has drunk his way through
two centuries of American cocktails and other mixed drinks. He
emerges to tell us, with clarity and wit, what he encountered, how
it was made. and how to make it now. In his recreations of the
drinks of yesteryear, he stops at nothing, even growing his own
snakeroot to make Jerry Thomas' Bitters. Thomas was called the
Professor in his day. If this title belongs to any living expert on
the cocktail, it belongs to Wondrich.
--Lowell Edmunds, author of Martini, Straight
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