Absinthe : History in a bottle / Barnaby Conrad III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conrad, Barnaby, 1953-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Absinthe.

Drinking customs--History--19th century.

Drinking customs.

History.

Drinking customs--France--History--19th century.

France.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

xi, [1], 160 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [1988]

Contents:

Introduction

An Absinthe Murder

Baudelaire, Manet, and the Absinthe Era

Absinthe and the Poets: Verlaine, Rimbaud, Wilde, and Dowson

Degas Takes Absinthe to London

From Montmartre to the Marquesas: Lautrec, Van Gogh, Monticelli, and Gauguin

Jarry and Picasso: The Absinthe Blur of Art

The Origins of Ancient and Modern Absinthe

The Medical Case against Absinthe

Absinthe and Politics

Absinthe and War

After the Ban

Absinthe Tody: Vive La Feé Verte.

Notes:

Editing: Charles Robbins. Book and cover design: Steve Renick.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-156) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

Kislak copy has label of Wine & Food Library Jan Langone ... Ann Arbor, MI.

ISBN:

087701566X (cloth) :

0877014868

OCLC:

17872098