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About the Author
WAYNE CURTIS has written frequently about cocktails, spirits, travel, and history for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Imbibe, The Daily Beast, American Scholar, and Garden & Gun, and was the spirits and cocktails columnist for The Atlantic for eight years. He lives in New Orleans most of the year and in Maine during the yellow fever.
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