Don Spiro, a vintage beverage specialist and one of the Gilded Gentleman’s most popular guests, presents a fascinating history of cocktails in the 19th century, leading up to the Gilded Age. Many cocktails often thought to have originated in the Jazz Age of the 1920s actually had their roots in the bars and saloons of the Gilded Age. … Continue reading Episode Encore: A Toast for the New Year: Gilded Age Cocktails with Don Spiro
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Episode #119: The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook with author Becky Diamond
Food historian and author Becky Diamond returns to the show to share some insight into celebrating Christmas Gilded Age style. During the 19th century, celebrations began to evolve from the once more popular New Year’s Day to the beginnings of the Christmas celebrations we know today. In her new book “The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook”, Becky shares recipes, stories and historical notes to add… Continue reading Episode #119: The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook with author Becky Diamond
Encore: Tasting Stars: A Sparkling History of Champagne
To celebrate the holiday season and ring in the new year, join me and listener favorite guest Don Sprio for an encore presentation of our episode on the history of champagne. Don, vintage beverage specialist and former professional bartender joins me for this look at just how champagne first came to be, how its style evolved over… Continue reading Encore: Tasting Stars: A Sparkling History of Champagne
Episode #32: Tasting Stars: A Sparkling History of Champagne
Carl and his guest, vintage cocktail event curator, Don Spiro, take a look at the myths and magic of champagne, the world’s most elegant drink. Champagne is unquestionably the world’s most glamorous drink and has been used for centuries to celebrate everything from weddings and birthdays to royal coronations. It was the drink of choice for formal gatherings in… Continue reading Episode #32: Tasting Stars: A Sparkling History of Champagne
Episode #68: Delmonico’s: The Return of a Legend with Max Tucci
A New York phoenix has risen! Delmonico’s, New York’s most legendary restaurant, first established in 1827 has reopened to welcome, as third-generation partner Max Tucci shares with us, all to the table. Delmonico’s began as the dream of two Swiss immigrants in the 1820s and grew to be a social center of the great Gilded Age.… Continue reading Episode #68: Delmonico’s: The Return of a Legend with Max Tucci
Episode #63: The Gilded Age Cookbook: A Conversation with author Becky Diamond
Join author Becky Diamond and Carl for a true Gilded Age feast! Carl and Becky enjoy a hearty and delicious conversation on all aspects of dining during this opulent period including what more modest home cooks were whipping up in their newly outfitted kitchens. The Gilded Age was a period of rapid industrialization and innovation – and that was abundantly… Continue reading Episode #63: The Gilded Age Cookbook: A Conversation with author Becky Diamond
Episode #51: The Golden Age of Gilded Age Cocktails
Join returning guest Don Spiro for this elegant and classy journey through the 19th century and find out just how the cocktail developed and how so much of what we love about fine cocktails today actually began in the Gilded Age. To celebrate a special occasion even if it’s just a typical Tuesday, there is nothing like a finely… Continue reading Episode #51: The Golden Age of Gilded Age Cocktails
Episode #33: The Delmonico Way: A Conversation with Max Tucci
In celebration of the just published new book, The Delmonico Way: Sublime Entertaining and Legendary Recipes From The Restaurant That Made New York, author Max Tucci joins The Gilded Gentleman for a talk about food, family history, and the real meaning of hospitality. Just the name was legendary — Edith Wharton mentioned it in her fiction set in the… Continue reading Episode #33: The Delmonico Way: A Conversation with Max Tucci
Episode #21: Dancing with the Green Fairy: The Mysteries of Absinthe
Absinthe was one of the most popular and most mysterious drinks that fueled Paris and London’s cafe society and artistic circles in the Belle Epoque and late Victorian and Edwardian worlds. Artists and writers from Henri Toulouse-Lautrec to Marcel Proust and Oscar Wilde were proponents along with members of the upper classes as well as everyday workers. Myths… Continue reading Episode #21: Dancing with the Green Fairy: The Mysteries of Absinthe
Episode #16: Golden Plates and Dinners on Horseback: Tales of Dining in Gilded Age New York
Outrageous stories of Gilded Age dinners served on plates of gold, live swans swimming in a lake in the center of your table and yes, even dinners served on horseback are all true. In this show, find out what some of the actual dishes served really were made and served along with stories of the… Continue reading Episode #16: Golden Plates and Dinners on Horseback: Tales of Dining in Gilded Age New York