Pittsburgh Drinks
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Pittsburgh's drinking culture is a story of its people: vibrant, hardworking and innovative. During Prohibition, the Hill District became a center of jazz, speakeasies and creative cocktails.
In the following decades, a group of Cuban bartenders brought the nightlife of Havana to a robust café culture along Diamond Street. Disco clubs gripped the city in the 1970s, and a music-centered nightlife began to grow in Oakland with such clubs as the Electric Banana. Today, pioneering mixologists are forging a new and exciting bar revival in the South Side and throughout the city. Pull up a stool and join Cody McDevitt and Sean Enright as they trace the history of Steel City drinking, along with a host of delicious cocktail recipes.
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Cody McDevitt is an award-winning journalist who works full time for the Somerset Daily American. His work has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Table Magazine and Pittsburgh Quarterly.
Sean Enright is one of the founding fathers of the craft cocktail movement in Pittsburgh. He has managed many of Pittsburgh's most prestigious restaurants and helped found the Pittsburgh Chapter of the United States Bartenders' Guild. Sean has also been active in the Pittsburgh art community, where he produced a literary art magazine called yawp.
Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword, by Phil Ward
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction, by Cody McDevitt
- Part I: What We've Been
- 1. Speakeasies up to Prohibition
- 2. Prohibition in Pittsburgh
- 3. Cafés and Jazz Clubs
- 4. Cocktail Lounges and Hippies
- 5. The Disco Club Era
- 6. The Nightclub Shuffle
- 7. Cocktail Resurgence
- Part II: Who We Are and the Drinks We Make
- 8. The Statesman
- 9. The Revolutionary
- 10. The Everywhere Girl
- 11. The Chess Player
- 12. The Enthusiast
- 13. The Exotic Tastemaker
- 14. Parting Words from a Pittsburgh Bartender
- Bibliography
- About the Authors
