Robert Simonson is a James Beard-nominated writer and the author of seven books about cocktails and cocktail history. After the craft cocktail movement blossomed in New York in the late aughts, it ...

The 1970s were a golden era of bar culture—smoky lounges, shag carpeting, jukeboxes playing soft rock, and an endless parade of snacks that were salty, bold, and sometimes downright strange. Bars ...