This month’s Mixology Monday is hosted by Joe and Dinah (aka Metagrrrl) at Bibulo.us, and our topic is 19th Century Cocktails.  When I saw this, I thought, “Awesome – This is right up my alley.”  You see, I’m a history nerd at heart.  I’ve got both a BA and an MA in American History, with a concentration in 19th Century [...]

“One cup of it took the place of the evening papers, of all the old evenings in cafés, of all chestnut trees that would be in bloom now in this month, of the great slow horses of the outer boulevards, of book shops, of kiosques, and of galleries, of the Parc Montsouris, of the Stade [...]