Cocktails for Book Lovers by Tessa Smith McGovern
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The perfect pairing for anyone with a literary thirst!
From Jane Austens little-known fondness for wine to Hemingways beloved mojitos, literature and libations go hand in hand. Cocktails for Book Lovers blends these in a delectable book that will delight both readers and cocktail enthusiasts alike. This irresistible collection features 50 original and classic cocktail recipes based on works of famous authors and popular drinks of their eras, including Orange Champagne Punch, Salted Caramel and Bourbon Milkshakes, and even Zombie Cola. So dip in, pick your favorite author or book, and take a sipor start at the beginning and work your way through. Cheers!
Cocktails inspired by your favorite authors:
Charlotte Bronte
Dani Shapiro
Dorothy Parker
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flannery OConnor
Jhumpa Lahiri
Junot Diaz
Virginia Woolf
Wally Lamb
And 40 more!
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In joyous memory of my dad, Ken Smith (aka Papa Ken), who always loved a good time and made the best champagne cocktails.
19342013
G rowing up in England, I was obsessed with Virginia Woolfher luminous prose, her melancholy brillianceand the glamorous image of the Bloomsbury set, a famous group of London intellectuals and writers in the early 1900s. After moving to the United States at the age of thirty, I was delighted to discover the Bloomsbury set had an American counterpart: the Algonquin Round Table in New York City, an equally famous group of intellectuals and writers, led by the acerbic and amusing Dorothy Parker. The elegance of these writers and their Bohemian lifestyle, mixing and mingling over literature and libations! The parties! The cocktails! The witty repartee! It all added up to the most glamorous life I could imagine.
How glorious, then, to witness a renaissance in the popularity of cocktails in our society today. Cocktails, conversation, and culture have always gone well together, and now, with this book, you can marry these delectable concoctions with delightful prose and compelling stories from fifty contemporary and classic authors. Each entry pairs an author with a cocktail recipe thats inspired by either one of their works or a popular drink from their era, as well as an excerpt, a bio, and an additional book recommendation. Its a fabulous, chic pairing that makes perfect sense.
Imagine this book is a box of chocolatesdip in and choose the most enticing author and cocktail, or start at the beginning and work your way through to the end. Have a party! Regale your book club! Cheers!
I sabel Allende was born in 1942 into the cauldron of Latin American politics. Her father was the ambassador to Peru and first cousin to Chiles president, Salvador Allende. When she was three, her father disappeared and the family took refuge in Santiago, Chile. She began telling stories to calm the fears of her two younger brothers.
From Eva Luna :
She treated me with kindness, even a certain tenderness. She worried that I did not eat enough; she bought me a good bed; and every afternoon she invited me into the living room to listen to the serials on the radio
At twenty, she married Miguel Frias, a former classmate. Decades later, after their divorce, she likened being his wife to serving as his geisha. While raising their two children, Allende translated Barbara Cartlands romance novels into English, until her habit of altering retrograde dialogue and demeaning characterizations of women got her fired. Later, as a TV journalist, she interviewed the poet Pablo Neruda, who told Allende her imaginative gifts would find full expression only in novel writing.
In 1973, during a military coup, the Allendes escaped to Venezuela. She continued working as a journalist for almost a decade, until her first success, The House of the Spirits , became a bestseller. This sealed her association with magic realism, a style that combines fantastic, dreamlike elements with realistic fiction.
Allende is now an American citizen. She lives in San Rafael, California, with her long-time partner, attorney Willie Gordon.
Allende holds to a practice unique among writers; she always begins a new novel on January 8, a tradition that stems from a letter she wrote to her dying grandfather that day in 1981.
Mayas Notebook . A coming-of-age story and startling novel of suspense about a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents.
Madrina is Spanish for godmother. In this novel, the protagonist, Eva Lunas madrina , who assumed care of the nine-year-old Eva after her mother died, was a faithful Catholic and a lover of rum.
1/8 cup low-fat milk
1 tbsp. light rum
1 tbsp. white crme de cacao
1 tbsp. crme de banana (or other banana liqueur)
1/2 banana
Wedge of pineapple
Maraschino cherry
Place all ingredients except the fruit in a shaker with ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled glass and garnish with fruit. Serves 1.
I n 1917, famed English editor Diana Athill was born into an upper-middle-class life in Norfolk, England, complete with a stately mansion and servants. But life wasnt easy: the family finances were foundering, and her parents were deeply unhappy together. In her late teens she discovered that her sister, Patience, had been conceived as a result of her mothers affair with an army officer.
From Somewhere Towards the End :
One life can contain serenity and tumult, heartbreak and happiness, coldness and warmth, grabbing and giving
At fifteen, Athill fell in love with Tony Irvine, an Oxford graduate and RAF pilot. They were engaged to be married when he left for World War II but, after two years, he wrote asking to be released from their engagement so he could marry someone else. Shortly afterward, he was killed in action. The pain of this event devastated her for the next twenty years and resulted in an aversion to being tied down; in numerous affairs she was the other woman. In 1951, she and the Hungarian publisher Andr Deutsch put together the company that bore his name. As an editor, she worked closely with legendary authors such as Norman Mailer, Simone du Beauvoir, and Margaret Atwood.
Athill began writing in earnest in her early forties. She wrote Somewhere Towards the End , a memoir, at the age of eighty-nine. Almost a decade later and in assisted living, Athill does not count out the possibility of another memoir.
She has said, I think the fact that Im in my nineties and still compos mentis , and able to write and have a nice time, is encouraging to people. They can look at me and say, There is somebody who is oldwhich I am dreadingbut there, its not so bad.
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