Month: August 2024

How did the Industrial Revolution, immigration–and maybe Winston Churchill’s mother–give rise to the Golden Age of cocktails in America? We explore the story of the Martini, the Manhattan, and the Daiquiri. Make yourself a cool Gin Martini with our customizable recipe ( . Further Reading: A Spirituous Journey: A History of Drink ( by Jared…

Was Prohibition really the Gilded Age utopia that it’s made out to be? In this episode: Cocktail innovation happening in unlikely places under unlikely circumstances. We feature the Bees Knees and the Bloody Mary. Further Reading: A Spiritous Journey ( by Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller “A Study of the Great Immoralities: Saloons in Chicago…

The 1950s to the 1990s are often dubbed as the cocktail’s Dark Ages where drinks like Long Island Iced Teas and Midori Sours reined supreme. The drinks from this time are often reviled or ridiculed, but they made important contributions to cocktail history, too. In this episode: How TGI Fridays, Madonna, and the Cosmopolitan helped…