Wayne Curtis was the spirits and cocktails columnist for the Atlantic magazine for eight years, and has also written about drinks for the Wall Street Journal, Imbibe, the Daily Beast, and the American Scholar. In 2002 Curtis was named Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers.
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails, Wayne Curtis reveals that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the exp...[SEE MORE]