![]() ![]() You drink them not simply to get drunk, but, like the eucharist, to imbibe, participate in, these other worlds. Drinks are good to think as well as drink. This volume shows how the otherworldly charm and significance of each cocktail emanates from its mythic origins, the way each drink opposes some other drink of another place or another generation, the way drinks recall the charismatic figures who drink them, or the times and places from which they emerged. The essays here decode a cocktail menu into a cultural history of North America. Schneider: You Cant Padlock an Idea: Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 19321961. The Shaken and the Stirred brilliantly shows, each cocktail side by side on the menu here and now gestures to other times, places, worlds, real and imaginary. Read more a bar and orders a cocktail, its purpose is to get drunk, and, perhaps, get you drunk. But how you get drunk, what cocktail you order, matters. The authors are distinguished in their various fields and bring historical and theoretical sophistication to their surprisingly varied takes on the subject."-Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University, author of Martini, Straight Up "Someone walks into. The twenty essays in this collection are at the high end of the talk. ![]() ![]() "The cocktail is a thing to drink and also to talk about. ![]()
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