Books Over Drinks with André Darlington

We’ve all heard of Forbidden Fruit, but what about Forbidden Cocktails? In Forbidden Cocktails by André Darlington | Running Press (on-sale May 7, 2024), classic film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike can get a taste of all the “forbidden” fun of Pre-Code Hollywood and the Prohibition and speakeasy era, with fifty pairings of Pre-Code films and cocktails.   What might Jean Harlow have sipped for Dinner at Eight? What did Barbara Stanwyck take to steal herself in Baby Face? If you’re a classic film fan you may have pondered these questions. Forbidden Cocktails offers fifty tantalizing Pre-Code movies with both original and classic Prohibition-era elixirs celebrating the brazen and provocative period when sin ruled the movies and the drinks. Movie-and- cocktail pairings include:   Hell’s Angels (1930) / Platinum Blonde  Dracula (1931) / Count Draiquiri  Night Nurse (1931) / My Pal Rye  Shanghai Express (1932) / Shanghai Lily  It Happened One Night (1934) / It Happened One Morning  The Thin Man (1934) / Asta  and so many more… WARNING: The films and cocktails in this book are intoxicating.

André Darlington is the author of A Booze & Vinyl Christmas, Bar Menu and Booze Cruise, among many other food and drink titles, as well as the co-author of Booze & Vinyl, Booze & Vinyl Vol 2, The New Cocktail Hour, and Movie Night Menus. He lives in North Carolina.