Offering original and classic cocktail and party food recipes, the book is also a darkly humorous look at the Baby-Boomers’ Cold War. A Tucson native, Max’s childhood weekends were punctuated by air-raid sirens that screamed through Tucson each Saturday at 1 p. m., heralding potential apocalypse. The author’s move to Sahuarita, Arizona, home of the Titan Missile Museum, renewed this atomic angst. Inspired to confront nuclear doomsday, Max turned to humor and the power of positive drinking.
The Atomic Cocktail Party and Trivia Book fits perfectly into the weird ephemera of atomic popular culture—atomic kitsch, or atomic chic? The reader must decide, preferably while munching Dr. Strangelove’s Breakfast Panini, and sipping an invigorating Day After cocktail.
Here's what Max says: "The book is black humor--except the drinks will really get you drunk, and the food will really kill you!"
