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Hollywood Cocktails

Hollywood Cocktails

Author: Ben Reed Tobias Steed
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Publication Date: 14 Oct 1999
ISBN-13: 9781840001990
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Description


Hollywood Cocktails is a stylish little book about the great era of Hollywood classics and the cocktails and drinks typically served in these films. Each chapter deals with a different time of day or type of festivity: from an evening, pre-dinner cocktail hour to a celebratory breakfast or brunch. The origins of many cocktails are discussed, with entertaining anecdotes linking the drinks to the films in which they appear. There is also a section devoted to morning-after concoctions for soothing away over-indulgences of the night before. Sophisticated and stylish, yet fun and easy-to-follow, this book adds a new dimension to the art of mixing drinks, and will bring hours of pleasure to those who read and use it. - A stylish gift-book for anyone who loves classic movies - especially those produced during the golden age of Hollywood, with all the glamorous stars of the silver screen. - A stylish gift-book for anyone who loves classic movies - especially those produced during the golden age of Hollywood, with all the glamorous stars of the silver screen. - Contains brief histories of the world's most famous cocktails, the films in which they were served and their recipes


Table of Contents


After office hours - the cocktail hour; dinner at eight - aperitifs and digestifs; from here to eternity - drinks for all occasions; remember last night - drinks for the day after the night before.


Author Description


Tobias Steed is an expert on film and cinema, and is a contributor to The Sunday Times 1,000 Makers of the Cinema, (published by Thames & Hudson). He is currently working on a screenplay. Hollywood Cocktails is the result of Tobias Steed's extensive research on decades of Hollywood films. It is also a dedicated homage to the matinee idols of his youth.






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