What Dickens Drank: Historic Summer Cocktails
Taught by Sarah Lohman
Sarah Lohman is the author of Four Pounds Flour, a blog dedicated to uncovering the flavors of the past and using them to inspire contemporary cooking. Lohman is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, where she began working in a museum at the age of 16, cooking over a wood-burning stove. She graduated with a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2005; for her undergraduate thesis she opened a temporary restaurant/installation that reinterpreted food of the Colonial era for a modern audience.
Lohman moved to New York in 2006 to work as Video Producer for New York Magazine's food blog, Grub Street. She currently works as an educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and curates food-related events at museums around the city.
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Imagine you’re a tourist to America in 1842: The summer heat of New York is sweltering, but that’s alright. It’s the perfect excuse to indulge in America’s greatest invention: The Cock-Tail.
Charles Dickens was one such tourist, meandering his way around the U.S., recording all that he ate and drank. In Boston, he said: "...the bar is a large room with a stone floor, and there people stand and smoke, and lounge about, all the evening dropping in and out as the humor takes them. There too the stranger is initiated into the mysteries of Gin-sling, Cocktail, Sangaree, Mint Julep, Sherry-cobbler, Timber Doodle, and other rare drinks.”
In this class, we’ll make three early cocktails: The Mint Julep, The Sherry-Cobbler, and the original Cock-Tail. We’ll discuss the history of each of these drinks, create them step-by-step, and then beat the heat by sampling the frosty fruits of our labor.
You so need to be 21 to take this class. It meets at the Brainery, 515 Court Street in BK.
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