Duggan McDonnell - Drinking the Devil's Acre

Who Knew The 'Mai Tai' came from San Francisco? Irish Coffee too? Duggan McDonnell joins us today bestowing fun cocktail history, dashes of wisdom and many liquid laughs. His new book, 'Drinking the Devil's Acre' is a delightful mix of culinary memoir and literary journalism, with layers of history and a few tall tales told while tippling! A great gift for anyone with a passion for history and drink, for San Francisco and the wanderlust of travel.

'The Devil's Acre' was a single, saloon-soaked block within the notorious Barbary Coast of old San Francisco. It was, in short, the wickedest, wildest berg in the whole wide world — not where you went to whet your whistle. But, just a few short blocks away, marbled drinking palaces reigned and civilization was sung as cocktails were shaken in tin and served in copper mugs.

The high art of the cocktail lived at the edge of the West's most electrifying nightlife. Several generations later, San Francisco boasts this very same dichotomy while the farm-to-glass movement is at its best.

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