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Drink Up!

The Savoy Cocktail Book: Being in the main a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks, known and greatly appreciated in the year of grace 1930...I think they're getting thirsty in California. In the last week The LA Times food blog Daily Dish had a post on 4 essential beer books and the latest Cook the Books column  from Moe's Books in Berkeley offers up books for the golden age of mixology.  So keeping in the spirit here's a peek at some delectable and collectible food and drink books currently on the market:   Eat Drink...

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‘The Masses’ now available for the masses

Thanks to the fruits of a $270,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) the first volume, 12 issues, of the seminal monthly magazine The Masses is now available in its entirety for your digital perusal at the Modernist Journals Project (MJP)Founded in 1911 The Masses was an illustrated socialist monthly that would soon become the premier journal of Greenwich Village and the burgeoning bohemian art community in New York City. Contributors included Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, John Reed Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Sherwood Anderson among many others.Here is editor Max Eastman's "manifesto" that appeared in the first issue:A Free Magazine...

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