Chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud once explained: "The future of cooking is about how we can rewrite the history of itit's important to keep the memory and be entertained by it and inspired by it." What A Swell Party It Was! entertains and inspires with a delicious slice of nearly forgotten culinary historyan era that followed the Great Depression and prohibition's repeal, where America boomed and the nightclub scene flourished.
An unabashedly joyful journey and a deeply authentic perspective on American culture in a rich, tumultuous age, What a Swell Party It Was! promises a cookbook/cocktail guide with a tip of the hat to history, crammed with details that bring life again to a fascinating American era.