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Drinks of the World

Mew and Ashton's survey of everything humans drink — wine and beer alongside spirits, tea and coffee — places the cocktail inside the longer history of conviviality.

Author
James Mew; John Ashton
Published
1892
Edition
1892
Publisher
The Leadenhall Press, London
Published in
United Kingdom
Written in
English

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Project Gutenberg
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Worldwide beverage history; not exclusively cocktail recipes.

Background

London, 1892. More social history than recipe book, it is useful here as context: the mixed drink is a chapter in a world atlas of drinking, and the authors treat American cocktails as a curiosity of the New World.

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