The subtitle of this book is “A Prohibition Expedition Through the South . . .with Cocktail Recipes”. It does indeed include recipes. I did not try any of them, because I don’t have many of the ingredients or utensils for mixing drinks, but some of them sounded pretty good! The premise of this book is Read More
Tag: Prohibition
Last Call, The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
I thought I knew enough about Prohibition, which lasted from 1920 to 1933. I’d heard of Carry Nation, bathtub gin, and bootlegging. But this book is a detailed look not just at the time period between the passage of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments, but also what led up the passage of each. Okrent also Read More