Approximately the height of a cocktail shaker and the same silvery color, Cecelia Tichi’s Midcentury Cocktails comes aswirl with information and anecdotes poured, neat, over history. But does it belong on the bibliography of the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and Professor of American Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University?
Why, yes, it does. This is the third in a series that began with Tichi’s well-received Gilded Age Cocktails (which is subtitled History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Golden Age), followed by Jazz Age Cocktails (that would be History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Roaring Twenties). Also the author of a crime series set during the Gilded Age, Tichi knows her way around a narrative and things that go bump in the night.
