The Brooklyn Cocktail: A History
Taught by Sarah Lohman
Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California
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With distilleries blossoming throughout the borough and some of the world’s top mixologists calling Brooklyn home, Brooklyn has quickly become the epicenter of creative drinkmaking. Is this a new phenomenon, or have we had an earlier incarnation as the cocktail capital? Discover stories of Brooklyn bartenders past and present in a panel including barstool historian and drinks correspondent David Wondrich, Tom Macy of the Clover Club, St. John Frizell of Fort Defiance, and Del Pedro of Tooker Alley, moderated by historic gastronomist Sarah Lohman.
Special thanks to Waterfront Wines for providing libations for the evening!
