Bad Poetry, Great Booze: The Story Of The Hidden Bootlegger's Manual

Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/18/457411276/bad-poetry-great-booze-the-story-of-the-hidden-bootleggers-manual?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=thesalt

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Recipe's in Victor Alfred Lyon's book.

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On the outside, the clothbound book looked innocuous enough. Titled The Candle and The Flame, The Work of George Sylvester Viereck, it appeared to be the work of a once famous, now disgraced German-American poet. But instead of printed lines of verse, the book contained only blank pages.

Beginning in 1921, a New Yorker named Victor Alfred Lyon filled it with recipe after recipe for homemade a…

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