Cooking & Food· United States
Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails
by Ted HaighAggregate Editorial Score15/100
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Published 2009320 pagesEnglish
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Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails by Ted Haigh is a landmark work of cooking & food, first published in 2009. Ted Haigh, known as Dr. Cocktail, rescues dozens of lost pre-Prohibition recipes and traces the stories behind obscure spirits and forgotten drinking traditions. A key text in the cocktail archaeology movement. Themes of cocktail history, forgotten recipes, pre-Prohibition run through the work.
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Recipes, food culture, and culinary history.
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Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails helped spark the cocktail revival's fascination with lost recipes and obscure ingredients. Ted Haigh's research brought drinks like the Corpse Reviver and the Last Word back from obscurity and into the repertoire of a new generation of bartenders.
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