In the 1920s Prohibition was the law, but ignoring it was the norm, especially in New Orleans.
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Bringing to life the fiction of flappers with tastes beyond bathtub gin, Shaking Up Prohibition in New Orleans: Authentic Vintage Cocktails from A to Z serves up recipes from the era of the speakeasy.
Scott Fitzgerald invented partygoers who danced from one cocktail to the next, real denizens of the French Quarter imbibed their way across the city.
While popular writers such as F.
In the 1920s Prohibition was the law, but ignoring it was the norm, especially in New Orleans