Martini, Straight Up The Classic American Cocktail / Lowell Edmunds.
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TextEdition: Revised editionDescription: 1 online resource (1 online resource xxix, 153 pages) : illustrations (some color)ISBN: 9781421437699Subject(s): Martini Getr©ank | Martinis | Drinking customs | Drinking customs -- United States -- History | Martinis | United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books. | History. | Electronic books. LOC classification: TX951 | .E325 1998Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Originally published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1998
Revised edition of: The silver bullet / Lowell Edmunds. 1981.
The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License
Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-145) and index.
Time Line: The Martini Decade by Decade -- The Simple Messages of the Martini. Message 1. The Martini is American -- it is not European, Asian, or African. Message 2. The Martini is urban and urbane -- it is not rural or rustic. Message 3. The Martini is a high-status, not a low-status, drink. Message 4. The Martini is a man's, not a woman's, drink. Message 5. The Martini is optimistic, not pessimistic. Message 6. The Martini is the drink of adults, not of children. Message 7. The Martini belongs to the past, not to the present. The Simple Messages Reconsidered -- The Ambiguities of the Martini. Ambiguity 1. The Martini is civilized -- the Martini is uncivilized. Ambiguity 2. The Martini unites -- the Martini separates.
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"In this engaging look at the classic cocktail, Lowell Edmunds traces the history of the Martini back to its American origins in the nineteenth century. Exploring literary and dramatic works as well as newspapers, magazines, cartoons, bartenders' manuals, distillery brochures, and other documents of popular culture, Edmunds finds in the Martini's image the same ambiguities that characterize American life."--Jacket.
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