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Author:	Lowell Edmunds	Publisher:	Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Edition Description:	Revised	ISBN-10:	0801859719
Subject:	Cooking, Food & Wine	ISBN-13:	9780801859717
Topic:	Wine & Beverages	Format:	Hardcover
Language:	English	Publication Year:	1998
Condition:	Very Good	Special Attributes:	--

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This scholarly study of the all-American Martini was written by a classics professor at Rutgers. Lowell Edmunds places the Martini in its cultural context, examining the drink's history, its traditional WASP-y image, and its image in movies, television, and literature. He has also compiled a list of every Martini cartoon in the New Yorker--a formidable achievement..
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Length:	153 pages
Height:	9.8 in.
Width:	6.0 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	15.2 oz.

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"The Martini is the premier American cocktail. It is a permanent fixture of American life, of the American imagination, of America's image in the rest of the world. But its consumption, like that of other commodities, is cyclical. At the time of the first edition of this book (1981), the Martini was in eclipse. As I did the research for this revised edition, I saw the Martini everywhere—in movie advertisements, on the jewel boxes of CDS, in magazines. Strolling around SoHo on a summer evening, I saw Martinis on every bar . . . This already much-noticed ‘return of the Martini' prompts three questions. Where did it return from? In what form has it returned? Where did the Martini come from in the first place?"—from the IntroductionBernard DeVoto called it the "supreme American gift to world culture," and H. L. Mencken said that it was "the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet." FDR served a Martini to Stalin at the Teheran Conference in 1943 and asked him how he liked it. "Well, all right," the Russian said, "but it is cold on the stomach." Stalin's successor was served a stronger Martini than the rather bland sort that FDR mixed. Khrushchev called it "the U.S.A.'s most lethal weapon."This is the classic book about the classic drink. The original edition, published in 1981 as The Silver Bullet: The Martini in American Civilization, traced the history of the Martini back to its American origins in the nineteenth century. In this revised edition, Edmunds updates his account and includes the results of his latest detective work. Exploring literary and dramatic works as well as newspapers, magazines, cartoons, bartender's manuals, distillery brochures, and other documents of popular culture, Edmunds finds in the Martini's image the same ambiguities that characterize American life:Ambiguity 1: The Martini is civilized—the Martini is uncivilized.Ambiguity 2: The Martini unites—the Martini separates.Ambiguity 3: The Martini is classic—the Martini is individual.Ambiguity 4: The Martini is sensitive—the Martini is tough.As this classic cocktail reappears as a 1990s symbol of stylish and sophisticated indulgence, this new edition of Edmunds' engaging account ensures that the Martini's place in the national iconography will not be forgotten. In this engaging look at the classic cocktail, Lowell Edmunds traces the history of the Martini back to its American origins in the 19th century. 12 photos, 4 illustrations. 4-page color insert.
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"Edmunds seems to have unearthed every reference to the martini since its creation sometime in the 1870s, and by researching recipe books from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he has painstakingly reconstructed the actual history of a cocktail swaddled in myth. The martini is the last word on cocktails. This book is the last word on the martini." New York Times - William Grimes (12/23/1998)

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