The Cocktail Parlor
How Women Brought the Cocktail Home

Nicola Nice's "The Cocktail Parlor: How Women Brought the Cocktail Home," is a captivating journey through the intertwined history of cocktails and women. Organized chronologically, the book offers a delightful exploration of how cocktails evolved alongside societal shifts, presenting a rich tapestr......more

🍸 COCKTAIL TIME!🍸 ARC for the Audiobook edition received by the publisher via Netgalley. CHEERS. 🍸 "A cocktail is hospitality in a glass." Raising my glass to this lovely little appetizer of a book. Author Nicola Nice has a light, but confident touch while mixing the parts that are culinary history......more

This is a great concept - in the barrage of cocktail books that have come out over the last few years, nearly all have focused on drinks developed in bars and restaurants. This book attempts to shift that focus to drinks created by and for women entertaining at home, with a particular focus on recip......more

cheers! Hallelujah! In the forward, a man admits he was wrong. Publicly and unabashedly. As a person interested in social history, particularly with an emphasis on food and drink, I too was aware of such personages as Mrs. Beeton, but it never occurred to me to consider them as a part of cocktail can......more

A really fun, inspiring book on the role of women as hostess and cocktail specialists. I'm very familiar with being intimidated when making cocktails, because it tends to be my husband's thing. Now I feel curious and more prepared to say, I got this. The recipes included are fun and useful. I can't......more