Exploring the 56 and a half Cocktail Recipe as a Variation of French 75

Was Prohibition really the Gilded Age utopia that it's made out to be? In this episode: Cocktail innovation happening in unlikely places under unlikely circumstances. We feature the Bees Knees and the Bloody Mary.

Further Reading:

A Spiritous Journey by Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller

"A Study of the Great Immoralities: Saloons in Chicago Before WWI" Ohio State University

"Bootleggers and Bathtub Gin" The Mob Museum

Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes From a Bootlegger's Manual by Matthew Rowley

Prohibition's Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America's Anti-Alcohol Crusade, Edited by Michael Lewis & Richard F. Hamm

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition by Mark Lawrence Schrad

"The Dangers of Common Ownership in an Uncommon Industry" by Jessica Starns Attorney At Law, LLC

"The FBI and the American Gangster, 1924-1938" The Federal Bureau of Investigation

"The Man in the Green Hat" The United States Senate

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