This week on Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold welcomes cocktail historian and author David Wondrich to celebrate his new release, The Comic Book History of the Cocktail. From 19th-century juleps to modern mixology, Wondrich and Arnold trace how drinking culture evolved — and occasionally went off the rails. They revisit the lost luxury of real peach brandy, debate the right way to build a punch, and trade barroom war stories about the revival of the craft-cocktail movement. Along the way, the crew talks Jim Croce lyrics, over-engineered drinks, and what happens when architects and bartenders both depend on Amazon.

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