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Book Drinking French

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Lebovitz
  • Publisher : Ten Speed Press
  • Release : 2020-03-03
  • ISBN : 1607749297
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Drinking French written by David Lebovitz and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TALES OF THE COCKTAIL SPIRITED AWARD® WINNER • IACP AWARD FINALIST • The New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen serves up more than 160 recipes for trendy cocktails, quintessential apéritifs, café favorites, complementary snacks, and more. Bestselling cookbook author, memoirist, and popular blogger David Lebovitz delves into the drinking culture of France in Drinking French. This beautifully photographed collection features 160 recipes for everything from coffee, hot chocolate, and tea to Kir and regional apéritifs, classic and modern cocktails from the hottest Paris bars, and creative infusions using fresh fruit and French liqueurs. And because the French can't imagine drinking without having something to eat alongside, David includes crispy, salty snacks to serve with your concoctions. Each recipe is accompanied by David's witty and informative stories about the ins and outs of life in France, as well as photographs taken on location in Paris and beyond. Whether you have a trip to France booked and want to know what and where to drink, or just want to infuse your next get-together with a little French flair, this rich and revealing guide will make you the toast of the town.

Book Madame Vieux Carre

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott S. Ellis
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2010-03-05
  • ISBN : 1628469587
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book Madame Vieux Carre written by Scott S. Ellis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated in media and myth, New Orleans's French Quarter (Vieux Carré) was the original settlement of what became the city of New Orleans. In Madame Vieux Carré, Scott S. Ellis presents the social and political history of this famous district as it evolved from 1900 through the beginning of the twenty-first century. From the immigrants of the 1910s, to the preservationists of the 1930s, to the nightclub workers and owners of the 1950s and the urban revivalists of the 1990s, Madame Vieux Carré examines the many different people who have called the Quarter home, who have defined its character, and who have fought to keep it from being overwhelmed by tourism's neon and kitsch. The old French village took on different roles—bastion of the French Creoles, Italian immigrant slum, honky-tonk enclave, literary incubator, working-class community, and tourist playground. The Quarter has been a place of refuge for various groups before they became mainstream Americans. Although the Vieux Carré has been marketed as a free-wheeling, boozy tourist concept, it exists on many levels for many groups, some with competing agendas. Madame Vieux Carré looks, with unromanticized frankness, at these groups, their intentions, and the future of the South's most historic and famous neighborhood. The author, a former Quarter resident, combines five years of research, personal experience, and unique interviews to weave an eminently readable history of one of America's favorite neighborhoods.

Book Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to Mix  em

Download or read book Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to Mix em written by Stanley Clisby Arthur and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vieux Carre

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tennessee Williams
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2000-10-17
  • ISBN : 0811225933
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Vieux Carre written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938-39 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly intact. The drama takes it form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants or his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carré: the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire; Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New York making at last grab at pleasure with Tye, the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker; two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret; and the dying painter Nightingale, who tries to teach the young writer something about love--both of the body and of the heart. This is a play about the education of the artist, and education in loneliness and despair, in giving and not giving, but most of all in seeing, hearing, feeling, and learning that "writers are shameless spies," who pay dearly for their knowledge and who cannot forget. Building on two decades of Williams scholarship since Vieux Carré was originally published, Robert Bray, editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, has provided a new introduction for this edition, giving the most authoritative account yet of its background and genesis.

Book Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails

Download or read book Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails written by Ted Haigh and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expanded and updated edition of Forgotten Cocktails and Vintage Spirits, historian, expert, and drink aficionado Dr. Cocktail adds another 20 fine recipes to his hand-picked collection of 80 rare-and-worth-rediscovered drink recipes, shares revelations about the latest cocktail trends, provides new resources for uncommon ingredients, and profiles of many of the cocktail world's movers and shakers. Historic facts, expanded anecdotes, and full-color vintage images from extremely uncommon sources round out this must-have volume. For anyone who enjoys an icy drink and an unforgettable tale.

Book The Second Battle of New Orleans

Download or read book The Second Battle of New Orleans written by Richard O. Baumbach and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, one can hardly imagine a visit to New Orleans without a stroll through its famous French Quarter (the Vieux Carre), but this now national historic landmark was at the center of a two-decades-battle that pitted politicians against preservationists. In 1946, as suburban sprawl increased, a massive roadway project was designed for the city of New Orleans, which included a forty-foot-high, ninety-foot-wide interstate highway be built through the French Quarter district, the city's oldest, and arguably most historic, neighborhood. The project was supported and pushed by politicians and business leaders around the city and state. Supplemented by a wealth of photographs and maps, Baumbach and Borah provide a well-documented account of the expressway controversy in all its twists and turns, its ambiguities, and its acrimony.

Book New Orleans Cocktails

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Baird
  • Publisher : Cider Mill Press
  • Release : 2017-02-07
  • ISBN : 1604336439
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book New Orleans Cocktails written by Sarah Baird and published by Cider Mill Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether a clean-drinking history buff or a connoisseur of all things served in fancy cups, New Orleans Cocktails raises a glass to the best of culture." --Christina Leo, inRegister "Transport yourself to the heart of New Orleans' fascinating cocktail culture with this collection of contemporary and classic drinks. Expect unique libations inspired by writers, musicians, and revolutionaries of The Big Easy, as well as bartender insights, party-planning chapters, and top shopping tips." --The Spirits Business Cocktails from The Big Easy--made easy! Immerse yourself in the magic and mystery of New Orleans with this fun and elegant new guide to the best bars and cocktails of the city. Far more than just a cocktail recipe book, New Orleans Cocktails features signature creations by the best mixologists in the Big Easy, inspired by Crescent City musicians, writers, and revolutionaries alike. Along with soundtrack suggestions, bartending techniques and preparations, tips for the first-time New Orleans visitor, and cocktail terminology, you'll also learn to master more than 100 of New Orleans' most exciting cocktails and bartender originals, including: *New Orleans classics like the Sazerac (at the Sazerac Bar, of course) and Arnaud's twist on the French 75 *Drinks inspired by the city's history, like the absinthe-filled Jean LaFitte Cocktail *Iconic drinks like the Classic Hurricane that will transport you to Bourbon Street You'll also find invaluable insider tips from local bartenders, including a Q&A with Ann Tuennerman, founder of Tales of the Cocktail! Concoct your own authentic Mardi Gras celebration without ever leaving your zip code with this comprehensive guide to the art of New Orleans cocktail making.

Book To Have and Have Another

Download or read book To Have and Have Another written by Philip Greene and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features recipes for Hemingway's favorite cocktails and looks at how they made their way into his works, while offering anecdotes about the celebrated author's drinking habits and frequent haunts.

Book The French Quarter of New Orleans

Download or read book The French Quarter of New Orleans written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a native of New Orleans, displays his passion for the "French Quarter" of the city in 106 color photographs highlighting Old World architecture, style, and history that has made this section of the city famous throughout the world.

Book The Cocktail Chronicles

Download or read book The Cocktail Chronicles written by Paul Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over 200 recipes for rediscovered classics, enduring standards & contemporary concoctions"--Cover.

Book French Quarter Manual

Download or read book French Quarter Manual written by Malcolm Heard and published by University Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans

Book The Night the War Was Lost

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles L. Dufour
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803265998
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book The Night the War Was Lost written by Charles L. Dufour and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long before the Confederacy was crushed militarily, it was defeated economically," writes Charles L. Dufour. He contends that with the fall of the critical city of New Orleans in spring 1862 the South lost the Civil War, although fighting would continueøfor three more years. On the Mississippi River, below New Orleans, in the predawn of April 24, 1862, David Farragut with fourteen gunboats ran past two forts to capture the South's principal seaport. Vividly descriptive, The Night the War Was Lost is also very human in its portrayal of terrified citizens and leaders occasionally rising to heroism. In a swift-moving narrative, Dufour explains the reasons for the seizure of New Orleans and describes its results.

Book Vieux Carre  The

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard Lemann
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-01-31
  • ISBN : 9781879714106
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Vieux Carre The written by Bernard Lemann and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1920s, New Orleans was one of the first U.S. cities to deliberately attempt to preserve its architectural heritage. In this influential and prophetic essay, Tulane professor of architecture Bernard Lemann argues for a rational balance between commercial growth and historic preservation in the French Quarter, offering a philosophical blueprint for keeping the Vieux Carr‚ a living, vibrant neighborhood.

Book Vieux Carr

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tennessee Williams
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780811214605
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Vieux Carr written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carre is not emotion recollected in tranquillity, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938-39 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly intact. The drama takes its form from the shifting scenes of memory, and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus, in turn, on the various inhabitants of his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carre: the comically desperate landlady, Mrs. Wire; Jane, a properly brought-up young woman from New York making a last grab at pleasure with Tye, the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker; two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret; and the dying painter Nightingale, who tries to teach the young writer something about love -- both of the body and of the heart. This is a play about the education of the artist, an education in loneliness and despair, in giving and not giving, but most of all in seeing, hearing, feeling, and learning that "writers are shameless spies," who pay dearly for their knowledge and who cannot forget.

Book Cosmopolitan

Download or read book Cosmopolitan written by Toby Cecchini and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a day at Passerby, Toby Cecchini's bar. It is a study of human nature, of the sometimes annoying, sometimes outlandish behaviour of the human animal under the influence of alcohol, lust and the sheer desire to bust loose and party.

Book Vieux Carr   Voodoo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Herren
  • Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
  • Release : 2010-05-01
  • ISBN : 1602824444
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Vieux Carr Voodoo written by Greg Herren and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former go-go boy turned detective Scotty Bradley is back! When an old family friend apparently commits suicide from his French Quarter balcony, Scotty’s life accelerates from boring to exciting again in a nanosecond. Why would anyone want the old man dead, and what were they looking for in his ransacked apartment? It’s up to Scotty, Frank, his crazy family, and friends to get to the bottom of this bizarre mystery—and when an old, all-too-familiar face turns up, it’s not just Scotty’s life that’s in danger, but his heart.

Book A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Download or read book A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1980-05-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor—for themselves and for each other. It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties––a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of Tennessee Williams’s most engaging "marginally youthful," forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics––the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony. Williams’s unerring dialogue reveals each of the four characters of A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur with precision and clarity: Dorothea, who does even her "setting-up exercises" with poignant flutters; Bodey, her German roommate, who wants to pair Dotty with her beer-drinking twin, Buddy, thereby assuring nieces, nephews, and a family for both herself and Dotty; Helena, a fellow teacher, with the "eyes of a predatory bird," who would like to "rescue" Dotty from her vulgar, common surroundings and substitute an elegant but sterile spinster life; and Miss Gluck, a newly orphaned and distraught neighbor, whom Bodey comforts with coffee and crullers while Helena mocks them both. Focusing on one morning and one encounter of four women, Williams once again skillfully explores, with comic irony and great tenderness, the meaning of loneliness, the need for human connection, as well as the inevitable compromises one must make to get through "the long run of life."