The Cocktail Parlor: How Women Brought the Cocktail Home

Meet the hostesses who have shaped cocktail history, and learn how to make the drinks they loved.



Throughout American history, women have helped propel what we know as classic cocktails-the Martini, the Manhattan, the Old-Fashioned, and more-into popular culture. But, often excluded from private clubs, women exercised this influence from the home, in their cocktail parlors. In The Cocktail Parlor, Dr. Nicola Nice, sociologist and spirits entrepreneur, gives women their long-overdue spotlight...