[American Palate 01] • Spirits and Cocktails of Upstate New York by Cazentre, Donald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Front Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Upstate New York and the Origins of the Cocktail

History, Stories, Legends What Is a Cocktail, Anyway? The Case for Hudson The “Hudson” Cocktail Today The Lewiston Legend Kitty Hustler’s Cocktail: What Was It? The Cocktail, The Spy and James Fenimore Cooper

2. Distilling, Rum and the Hudson Valley

Spirits: The Key Ingredient Distilled Spirits: What Are They? Native Americans, Colonists and Rebels Albany and the Age of Rum Albany Rum: A Twenty-First Century Return When Punch Was in Its Heyday The Pioneer Spirit Today: Hudson Valley Distillers

3. Whiskey and the “West”

Where the Spirits Flowed: The Erie Canal Cocktails along the Erie Today Temperance, Taxes and “Fiery Stuff” Small-Batch Distilling Comes Home

4. The “Professor” and the Cocktail

The Bartender Turns Professional The Legacy of Jerry Thomas A Rochester Bar-Keeper: Patsy McDonough Tom & Jerry: A Joyful Upstate New York Tradition

5. The Gilded Age: Sports, Stars and Capitalists

Off to the Races: Drinking at Saratoga A Cocktail Star: The Mamie Taylor Forgotten or Not: Making a Mamie Taylor Cooperstown: Cocktails on the Diamond Big Business and a Little Fraud

6. Prohibition: The Dry (and Not-So-Dry) Years

Bootleggers and Speakeasies Thousand Islands Today: Legal Liquor and Cocktails

7. The Twentieth-Century Spirit

Staying Alive: The Story of Fee Brothers Fiction, Fact and the Flaming Rum Punch Borscht Belt: Bungalows and Highballs Harvey Wallbanger: The Cocktail Mascot of the 1970s

8. Resurgence and Revival

The Drinks Renaissance Begins Firing Up Upstate New York’s Stills at Last Modern Distilleries: Five to Watch The Cocktail Revival: Rochester Excelsior: All New York, All the Time The Cocktail Test Kitchen Disco Lemonade: The Cocktail in a Can Kegworks: Building a Bar Online An Upstate Eye-Opener

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