Books for the Mixologist in Your Life

The Manhattan. The Long Island Iced Tea. The Cape Codder. There’s a reason drinks are named for places – because every region puts a twist on their favorite cocktail. Our delicious cocktail books capture the tang of a well-mixed concoction, from coast to coast. Try California Tiki: A History of Polynesian Idols, Pineapple Cocktails and Coconut Palm Trees. Or sample the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, a sublime mix of history, spirits, and recipes. And our Prohibition titles are a mix of rum-running, moralizing and moonshine histories. Your cocktail aficionado will be both shaken and stirred by our collection of local licentiousness and libations.
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California Tiki
California Tiki
Prohibition in the Napa Valley:
Prohibition in the Napa Valley:
Prohibition in Sacramento
Prohibition in Sacramento
Bay Area Cocktails
Bay Area Cocktails

California Tiki

9781467138222

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After World War II, suburbs proliferated around California cities as returning soldiers traded in their uniforms for business suits. After-hours leisure activities took on an island-themed sensuality that bloomed from a new fascination with Polynesia and Hawaii. Movies and television shows filmed in Malibu and Burbank urged viewers to escape everyday life with the likes of Gidget and Hawaiian Eye. Restaurants like Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic's sprang up to answer the demand for wild cocktails and even wilder décor. The culture--a strange hodgepodge of idols, torches, lush greenery and colorful drinks--beckoned men and women to lose themselves in exotic music and surf tunes. Authors Jason Henderson and Adam Foshko explore the state's midcentury fascination with all things Tiki.
California Tiki

Prohibition in the Napa Valley:

9781626190894

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To a region flush with the success of alcohol, Prohibition was a sobering thought. Against the backdrop of national events, author Lin Weber introduces a cast of Napa Valley's leading citizens, embroiled in a fight for their livelihood with temperance champions and federal agents. Theodore Bell filed a Hail Mary suit to stop California's ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment. Vintner Georges de Latour made money hand over fist on altar wine. The Nichelini winery hid a cache of contraband under the floorboards, and the Blaufuss Brewery avoided prosecution when the law turned a blind eye. Join Weber as she relates a wry tale of cherished vines, widespread corruption and alcohol-inspired mayhem during a time when morality" tightened the noose around Napa's prized alcohol industry."
Prohibition in the Napa Valley:

Prohibition in Sacramento

9781626191662

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Sacramento's open opposition to Prohibition and ties to rumrunning up and down the California coast caused some to label the capital the wettest city in the nation. The era from World War I until the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment brought Sacramento storied institutions like Mather Field and delightful surprises like a thriving film industry, but it wasn't all pretty. The Ku Klux Klan, ethnic immigrant hatred and open hostility toward Catholics and Jews were dark chapters in the Prohibition era as Sacramento began to shape its modern identity. Join historian Annette Kassis on an exploration of this wet--and dry--snapshot of the River City.
Prohibition in Sacramento

Bay Area Cocktails

9781467137539

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The cocktail fluctuated in popularity following Prohibition but had firmly taken root in the culinary landscape by the 1990s-- the Bay Area played a significant role in reviving it.

An American invention, the cocktail has gone on to be enjoyed by people all over the world, but few places make a drink quite like the Bay Area. From the distillers who pioneered craft spirits and Alice Waters' revolutionary take on simple, fresh food at Chez Panisse to the bartenders who cared enough to grow a dedicated cocktail community, this is the story of how the Bay Area shaped the art of elevated drinking in America. Through oral history interviews and recipes, author Shanna Farrell chronicles the narrative history of the modern cocktail renaissance.

Bay Area Cocktails