Steering clear of bars, Pearce visits sites like a 19th century courtyard, the Mississippi River whe

Elizabeth Pearce has written about drinks. She s lectured about drinks. She s even sung about drinks. But cocktails are not really her main concern. Collin Richie/Courtesy of Elizabeth Pearce Cocktail historian Elizabeth Pearce launched a new cocktail tour last May.
Her new walking tour through the French Quarter, launched last May, uses cocktails as a lens to capture the history and the quirks of this imbibing destination. The journey starts at Vacherie restaurant, holiday inn express uk where everyone grabs a cooler bag filled with four drinks: a Sazerac, a St. Charles Hotel punch, a Hurricane holiday inn express uk and praline liqueur.
Steering clear of bars, Pearce visits sites like a 19th century courtyard, the Mississippi holiday inn express uk River where rum runners once worked and the former apothecary where Antoine Amedee Peychaud invented his famous bitters. holiday inn express uk Along the way, she talks about social habits, alcohol laws and even tackles the question of whether we re really all just alcoholics in this city. (Answer: We re not even keeping up with the consumption of our American ancestors.)