Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes from a Bootlegger's Manual

Nominated for a James Beard Award, more than 100 secret and forgotten formulas for illicit boozeAmerican Prohibition was far from watertight. If you knew the right people, or the right place to go, you could get a drink—most likely a variation of the real thing, made by blending smuggled, industrial alcohol or homemade moonshines with extracts, herbs, and oils to imitate the aroma and taste of familiar spirits. Most of the illegal recipes were written out by hand and secretly shared. The “lost r…