The Cocktail is as old as the nation that invented it, yet until this entertaining and authoritative account, its Story had never been fully told.
He lives in Astoria, Queens..
About author(s): William Grimes is the restaurant critic for The New York Times .
The book includes about one hundred recipes--half of them new for this edition--for both classics and innovations.
William Grimes traces the evolution of American drink from the anything-goes concoctions of the Colonial era to the frozen margarita, spiking his meticulously researched narrative with arresting details, odd facts, and colorful figures.
The Cocktail is as old as the nation that invented it, yet until this entertaining and authoritative account, its Story had never been fully told
