My Brush With History (June/July 2003, Volume 54, Issue 3) n:61087

America’s most impressive historic survivors just may be our taverns—because they’ve had to do it all on their own, by offering you exactly the same kind of comfort they did your great-grandfather

Al Hirschfeld: The Speakeasies I Remember

Authored by: Neil A. Grauer

In a last conversation before his death at 99 this January, the artist recalled the places he visited, drew, and wrote about during prohibition in New York City. You can still lift a glass at a couple of them.

Barbecue

Authored by: Sylvia Lovegren

It’s the most purely American food-and that’s maybe the
only thing about it everyone agrees on

My Brush With History

My Brush With History

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