David Wondrich is one of the world’s foremost authorities on cocktails and their history, and one of the founders of the current craft cocktail movement. Esquire’s long-time Cocktail Correspondent, he also writes for a host of other magazines on the subject, and when he’s not writing about it, he’s probably lecturing on it—or resting his liver. Dr. Wondrich holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature, is the winner of five Tales of the Cocktail Spirit Awards for his writing and is a partner in Beverage Alcohol Resource, the world’s leading advanced education program in spirits and cocktails. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
"This isn't just nostalgia or hipster, artisanal stuff or
tongue-in-cheek. David Wondrich is a serious historian that
recognized that an American art form had been interrupted in
its prime. And it would actually take serious painstaking work
to revive it...Because of him, more than because of
anybody else, we are in the midst of a national renaissance,
something that we by right own as a country."
--Rachel Maddow
"David Wondrich is a such an envy-producing polymath that it drives
me to drink. Brilliant historian, beautiful writer, former punk
rocker, absinthe-maker, mixological marvel, and perhaps, yes, even
WIZARD. Plus he can grow an amazing beard. There are few people in
the world I rely on to be so authoritative and so entertaining all
at once, and to mix an amazing cocktail at the same time. And those
few people are DAVID WONDRICH."
—John Hodgman, author of The Areas of My Expertise
"[Jerry] Thomas finally gets his due in Imbibe!....Mr.
Wondrich puts the drinks in context, with their ingredients
explained, their measurements accurately indicated, and their place
in the overall cocktail scheme clearly mapped out. At the same
time, Thomas himself appears, for the first time, as a living
presence: a devotee of bare-knuckle prize fights, a flashy dresser
fond of kid gloves, an art collector, a restless traveler usually
carrying a fat wad of bank notes and a gold Parisian watch. A
player, in short."
—William Grimes, The New York Times
"This book will leave you shaken and, I hope, stirred. Wondrich,
one of the top spirits writers in the country, delves into the rich
and fascinating history of mixology in America."
—USA Today
"Imbibe brings back the delicious forgotten cocktails created
by a pioneering American bon vivant....This book is a model for
food history writing....[Wondrich is] always an enjoyable writer,
curious, eager, mildly opinionated and with a taste for the
amusing."
—The Los Angeles Times
"Cocktail connoisseurs and history buffs will find this book an
essential addition to their reference libraries."
—The San Francisco Chronicle
"Wondrich offers what amounts to a history of industrial-age
America writ in booze, covering everything from punches, fizzes,
and sours to toddies, slings, and juleps."
—Saveur, Top Ten Reads
"How and why America rose to world preeminence in mixology is
explained zestfully in Imbibe!."
—Forbes
"With Imbibe!, David Wondrich's biography of 19-century
mixologist Jerry Thomas, cocktails do the time warp."
—New York Daily News
"Wondrich delivers a well-researched chronicle of "Professor" Jerry
Thomas's life and times as late 19th-century bartender
extraordinaire...a lovely homage to Thomas's indomitable
spirits."
—Publishers Weekly
"David Wondrich has drunk his way through two centuries of American
cocktails and other mixed drinks. He emerges to tell us, with
clarity and wit, what he encountered, how it was made. and how to
make it now. In his recreations of the drinks of yesteryear,
he stops at nothing, even growing his own snakeroot to make Jerry
Thomas' Bitters. Thomas was called "the Professor" in his
day. If this title belongs to any living expert on the
cocktail, it belongs to Wondrich."
—Lowell Edmunds, author of Martini, Straight Up
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