The Lost Books Behind the Cocktail Revival | Greg Boehm

This is a Vintage episode from 2010. Why This Episode Matters Greg Boehm explains how obscure pre-Prohibition cocktail books became useful again as ingredients and serious bartending returned.He shares how Mud Puddle Books reproduced historic cocktail books in painstaking detail — right down to the paper, binding and gold stamping. The conversation captures an important moment in the rise of Japanese bartending in the U.S., including Kazuo Uyeda, the Hard Shake and the English-language ...