Author: III, Barnaby Conrad
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The Martini: An Illustrated History of an American Classic
Price: $9.98
Publisher: Chronicle Books : April 1995
Seller ID: 265551
ISBN-13: 9780811807173
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
A chilled, crystal glass; the purest gin; a touch of dry vermouth--vigorously shaken, not stirred--and a plump, green olive. The martini was and still is more than just a cocktail. Originally mixed in the nineteenth century, it became an American icon in the twentieth, and the favorite drink of such luminaries as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Jack London, and Ernest Hemingway. Bernard De Voto called the martini "the supreme American gift to world culture," while H. L. Mencken declared it "the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet."The first book of its kind to explore the ...
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