Listen "100 Proof: Prohibition (Episode 4)"
Episode Synopsis
Was Prohibition really the Gilded Age utopia that it's made out to be? In this episode: Cocktail innovation happening in unlikely places under unlikely circumstances. We feature the Bees Knees and the Bloody Mary.
Further Reading:
A Spiritous Journey by Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller
"A Study of the Great Immoralities: Saloons in Chicago Before WWI" Ohio State University
"Bootleggers and Bathtub Gin" The Mob Museum
Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes From a Bootlegger's Manual by Matthew Rowley
Prohibition's Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America's Anti-Alcohol Crusade, Edited by Michael Lewis & Richard F. Hamm
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition by Mark Lawrence Schrad
"The Dangers of Common Ownership in an Uncommon Industry" by Jessica Starns Attorney At Law, LLC
"The FBI and the American Gangster, 1924-1938" The Federal Bureau of Investigation
"The Man in the Green Hat" The United States Senate
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Further Reading:
A Spiritous Journey by Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller
"A Study of the Great Immoralities: Saloons in Chicago Before WWI" Ohio State University
"Bootleggers and Bathtub Gin" The Mob Museum
Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes From a Bootlegger's Manual by Matthew Rowley
Prohibition's Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth About America's Anti-Alcohol Crusade, Edited by Michael Lewis & Richard F. Hamm
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition by Mark Lawrence Schrad
"The Dangers of Common Ownership in an Uncommon Industry" by Jessica Starns Attorney At Law, LLC
"The FBI and the American Gangster, 1924-1938" The Federal Bureau of Investigation
"The Man in the Green Hat" The United States Senate
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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