Punch, the Drink of Dickens, Redeemed
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David Wondrich making cold punch at the JakeWalk, a bar he likes in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: October 14, 2010
Ask David Wondrich how he became so fascinated with punch — as in the liquid curse of many a holiday party, ladled out in portions too stinting to dull the pain of forced conversation and obligatory merriment — and suddenly you’re in England. In the middle of the 19th century. At Charles Dickens’s house. More