{"id":36,"date":"2011-05-20T14:03:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T21:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindacollison.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-05-18T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T19:44:50","slug":"in-her-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/in-her-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"In her cups"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not a big fan of the spirit but many of Patricia\u2019s adventures in books two and three of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure series<\/em> are based on rum: Rhode Island rum made from French Caribbean sugar smuggled into the colony aboard trading schooners such as Andromeda..<\/em><\/p>\n

Wayne Curtis\u2019s And a Bottle of Rum; A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails<\/em> (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007) is an informative and delightful book, better in paperback format than electronic.\u00a0 This is a book meant to be flipped<\/em> through. (Flip<\/em> was the most famous early American rum drink, as described by Curtis.\u00a0 Concocted of strong beer, molasses, and rum, the mixture was then stirred with a red hot loggerhead to give it a steaming head and a<\/p>\n

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Arduous research<\/p><\/div>\n

slightly burnt taste. ) \u00a0My copy of Curtis\u2019s brief history is dog-eared, underlined, self-annotated, creased, coffee stained (and soon to be singed if I can ever find a bartender\u2019s loggerhead) \u00a0\u2013 a fine addition to my growing collection of reference books.<\/p>\n

Of course the danger for historical novelists is getting happily lost in a labyrinth of research, which is why it took seven years to write and publish Star-Crossed<\/em>, and another four years to write and publish the sequel, Surgeon\u2019s Mate; book two of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series..<\/em> \u00a0I\u2019m hoping this blog will help keep me on track, so that I can finish the manuscript for book three in a timely manner. \u00a0That said, I better post this and \u00a0get back to writing chapter one before its time for happy hour.\u00a0 How quickly time slides by\u2026<\/p>\n

Mojitos, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not a big fan of the spirit but many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[10,27,7],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-and-publishing","tag-historical-fiction","tag-surgeons-mate","tag-writing-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}