Background
Grimes was born in Houston, Texas.
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Straight Up or on the Rocks: A Cultural History of American Drink
(A social history of social drinking discusses 350 years o...)
A social history of social drinking discusses 350 years of drinking history--from colonial taverns to today's watering holes--and features more than one hundred recipes for the most interesting and enduring beverages. 12,500 first printing.
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My Fine Feathered Friend
( Boy Meets Bird. Boy Gets Bird. Boy Loses Bird An Urban ...)
Boy Meets Bird. Boy Gets Bird. Boy Loses Bird An Urban Folktale. One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever it had come from, it showed no sign of leaving, and it quickly made a place for itself among the society of resident stray cats. Before long, the chicken became the Chicken, and it began to arouse not only Grimes's protective impulses but also his curiosity. He discovered that chickens were domesticated first as fighters, not food; that egg-laying is triggered by exposure to light; that chickens were a fashion statement in Victorian days. He began to probe the mysteries of gallinaceous behavior, learning to distinguish a dust bath from a death dance and how to cater to his guest's eclectic palate. And when the Chicken began to repay his hospitality with five or six custom-laid eggs per week, Grimes had an answer to the age-old conundrum of which came first: the Chicken. And then one day, obeying some bird-brained logic of its own -- or perhaps the victim of fowl play -- the Chicken vanished, leaving Grimes eggless but with this funny, enlightening, and heartwarming tale to tell.
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Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail by William Grimes (2002-10-16)
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Straight Up or on the Rocks: A Cultural History of American Drink by Grimes, William (1993) Hardcover
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Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail
( The cocktail is as old as the nation that invented it, ...)
The cocktail is as old as the nation that invented it, yet until this entertaining and authoritative account, its story had never been fully told. William Grimes traces the evolution of American drink from the anything-goes concoctions of the Colonial era to the frozen margarita, spiking his meticulously researched narrative with arresting details, odd facts, and colorful figures. The book includes about one hundred recipes--half of them new for this edition--for both classics and innovations.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/086547656X/?tag=2022091-20
William Grimes
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Education
In 1973, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English from Indiana University Bloomington where he graduated with honors. In 1974, he received a M. A. in English from the University of Chicago and in 1982 earned his Doctor of Philosophy in comparative literature.
Career
He is the author of four books on food and drink in the United States, including the recent work Appetite City: A Culinary History of New New York He also received a Whiting Fellowship. In April 1999, Grimes was named restaurant critic at The New York Times.
Prior, he served as a reporter in the style department, where he wrote in the dining section since September 1997.
From October 1991 until September 1997 he worked as a reporter on the cultural desk where he covered independent film, visual art, and books Grimes joined The New York Times in May 1989 as a story editor and writer
Before working for The Times, he was the executive editor for Avenue Magazine from September 1986 to May 1989 while also contributing to The New York Times Magazine. He was a copy editor for Esquire from April 1984 to September 1986.
Here he also wrote on cocktails for the magazine.
From April 1980 to April 1984, he was associate editor of Macmillan Publishing where he worked to translate the Great Soviet Encyclopedia into English.
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Works
book
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Straight Up or on the Rocks: A Cultural History of American Drink
(A social history of social drinking discusses 350 years o...)
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Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail
( The cocktail is as old as the nation that invented it, ...)
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My Fine Feathered Friend
( Boy Meets Bird. Boy Gets Bird. Boy Loses Bird An Urban ...)
- Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail by William Grimes (2002-10-16)
- Straight Up or on the Rocks: A Cultural History of American Drink by Grimes, William (1993) Hardcover
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Straight Up or on the Rocks: A Cultural History of American Drink
