Cecelia Tichi

History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Atomic Age

Midcentury Cocktails

Amanda

This book feels mistitled. I felt misled going into it. This book is not about mid century cocktails it is about mid century American history with some cocktail recipes added as footnotes to each chapter.

I was expecting a book of cocktails with colourful pictures of retro accents and drinks highlighted with interesting stories about where these cocktails got their names from. I expected fun anecdotes about famous people drinking cocktails as highlights to the pictures and recipes.

Instead those anecdotes were hidden under mounds of unrelated history, there were no pictures, and the recipes were dry lists of ingredients with "mix well" as instructions. The first chapter is about cars and roadtripping 🤷🏻‍♀️.

I felt hoodwinked. The entire book was like reading through an extremely boring food blog for a special mac 'n' cheese recipe, only to find the instructions for a box of Kraft Dinner at the end.

Midcentury Cocktails History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Atomic Age

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