What's Your Poison?: How Cocktails Got Their Names - Bader, Jerry
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Why do we call mixed alcohol drinks "cocktails"? How do they get their exotic names: names like the Singapore Sling, Screw Driver, the Alamagoozlum, the Angel's Kiss, the Hanky Panky, the Harvey Wallbanger, Sex On The Beach, the Monkey Gland, the Brass Monkey, the Margarita, the Japalac, the Lion's Tail, and many, many more? Who makes up these names, where are they invented, why, and how do you make them? These questions will be answered in "What's Your Poison?" by exploring the incidents, people, and places that prompted the creation of these exotic concoctions. In this book you will you…mehr

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Why do we call mixed alcohol drinks "cocktails"? How do they get their exotic names: names like the Singapore Sling, Screw Driver, the Alamagoozlum, the Angel's Kiss, the Hanky Panky, the Harvey Wallbanger, Sex On The Beach, the Monkey Gland, the Brass Monkey, the Margarita, the Japalac, the Lion's Tail, and many, many more? Who makes up these names, where are they invented, why, and how do you make them? These questions will be answered in "What's Your Poison?" by exploring the incidents, people, and places that prompted the creation of these exotic concoctions. In this book you will you learn several alternative theories of how cocktails became "cocktails" and you'll also learn how to make over forty different variations. In addition you'll learn about some interesting characters you probably never heard of and a few famous ones you most assuredly know. WYP? is a fun book that should spark some interesting conversations while enjoying some unusual but thirst quenching concoctions.
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Jerry Bader is Senior Partner at MRPwebmedia.com, a media production company that specializes in Web video, audio, music, and sound design. Mr. Bader has written and produced dozens of video commercials for clients. Writing scripts and novels is a natural extension that grew out of the experience of creating attention-grabbing mini movies that focus on the core emotional motivator. Over the years Mr. Bader has written over a hundred articles on marketing, and he's self-published marketing e-books, hybrid graphic novels, biographies, and a series of children's books. The Neo Noir Hybrid Graphic Novels are story concepts developed with the goal of having them turned into television series or feature films. There are currently ten screenplays, five of which have been self-published as hybrid graphic novels: The Method, The Comeuppance, The Coffin Corner, Grist For The Mill and The Black Crane. He's also written The Fixer published by Rebel Seed Entertainment. It has consistently been in the top ten percent in several Amazon categories. The Fixer is based on the true-life story of a colorful horse racing character. The follow-up to The Fixer is the new book Beating The System that continues the story of the horse racing legend. Mr. Bader has also written Organized Crime Queens, The Secret World of Female Gangsters, What's Your Poison? How Cocktails Got Their Names, The Outlaw Rider, Dead End, Noir I, Noir II, Palermo, and the soon to be released: Stone Cold, The Aussie Switch, and Ballet Of Bullets. Mr. Bader has also written a series of children's books, ZaZa Books For Kids, that currently includes, Two Dragons Named Shoe, The Town That Didn't Speak, The Criminal McBride, The Bad Puppeteer, Mr. Bumbershoot, The Umbrella Man, The Ninth Inning, and 14 Ridiculous Tales of Sage Silliness.