Barnaby Conrad III
American author and editor known for illustrated books on cocktails and culture, including Absinthe: History in a Bottle and The Martini: An Illustrated History of an American Classic; he worked for many years as an editor at Chronicle Books and was the son of novelist Barnaby Conrad.
Books
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1. Absinthe
History in a Bottle
A brisk, richly illustrated history of the notorious green spirit, charting its origins in Swiss apothecaries, its meteoric rise in 19th‑century France, the bohemian devotion of artists and writers, the ritual of preparation, the myths and science surrounding thujone and hallucinations, the political and moral campaigns that led to prohibition, and the late‑20th‑century reassessment and revival that restored it to bars and cultural imagination.