Episode 127 - Modern and Vintage Glassware

Some of the topics we discuss with Victoria Vergason of The Hour during this interview include:

• How Victoria used her globe-trotting career in international finance to build a colorful and diverse collection of vintage glassware and bar tools.
• The various changes in glassware size and shape as we moved from the golden age of the cocktail, to prohibition, and beyond.
• Why cocktail pitchers and rooster motifs really need to make a comeback.
• How history and culture had a direct effect on the design and materials used to make different glasses and tools, including camouflaged cocktail shakers, gun trigger mechanisms on jiggers and, even hand-painted cocktail glasses.
• The origins and implications of the “Three Martini Lunch”
• Why Victoria is branching out to create her own line of glassware and bar tools called “The Modern Home Bar.”
• Which famous artists and thinkers she would invite to her ultimate historical cocktail hour
• And much, much more