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Shake 'em Up!
Shake 'em Up!: A Handbook of Polite Drinking | Virginia Elliott, Phil D. Stong
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"A handbook for polite--if not entirely legal--drinking [written] during the height of Prohibition, but the advice remains sound, the voice charming, and the cocktails strong"--Dust jacket back.
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AmyStewart
Shake 'em Up!: A Handbook of Polite Drinking | Virginia Elliott, Phil D. Stong
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Here's the other author, Phil Stong. He wrote a book you might have heard of called State Fair. He was also quite a drinker. In my research for the intro, I turned up some really tragic letters from his wife about his drinking problem. A dark side to what is otherwise a very charming book.

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AmyStewart
Shake 'em Up!: A Handbook of Polite Drinking | Virginia Elliott, Phil D. Stong
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Another remarkable thing about this book – it's one of the first books on cocktails to be written by a woman. Virginia Elliott was basically a hard-working New York freelancer who went on to publish a couple more cocktail books and cookbooks. Lived her whole life on the Upper East Side.

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AmyStewart
Shake 'em Up!: A Handbook of Polite Drinking | Virginia Elliott, Phil D. Stong
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Did you know that Prohibition didn't just ban alcohol – it also banned the publishing or selling of books that explained how to make alcohol! When I wrote the introduction to this very charming reprint, the first thing I did was to track down a few banned pages that told how to make bathtub gin.

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