the cocktail parlor

New York: Countryman Press, 2024. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards. Fine. T.J. River. 216 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. From as early as the mid-19th century, women have helped propel what we know as classic cocktails - the Old-Fashioned, the Manhattan, the Martini, and more - into popular culture. But these pioneering women, often excluded from private clubs and discouraged from participating in male-dominated bar culture, exercised their influence from a different domain: at home, in their cocktail parlors. Here, Nicola Nice, sociologist and spirits entrepreneur, gives women their long-overdue spotlight in cocktail history and shows how they still impact cocktail culture today. Forward by Robert Simonson. Pristine.