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Episode 200 - David Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum on "The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails"
In this wide-ranging conversation with Noah Rothbaum and David Wondrich, some of the topics we cover include:
How Dave transitioned from English professor, to Esquire columnist, to full-fledged cocktail historian, and how that journey brought him to collaborate with Noah at The Daily Beast and on their current Oxford Companion project.
The difference between writing about spirits and cocktails in the early 2000s vs. today, and how our relationship to "The Truth" (in quotes here) is different than it was during those early days of our great cocktail revival.
Why long-form booze writing has…
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