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"Contains over 3000 illustrated cocktail recipes."
All you need to know. Gin now has its own geek's bible, a heady cocktail of information, enthusiasm and authority. -- Observer Food Monthly All alcohols have a social history and this book tells the story of gin. The spirit has a long and lively history and its popularity has waxed and waned over the centuries. But it is in demand again -- and rising -- and many would say that only now is it getting the recognition it truly deserves. At the same time, new makers populate the scene, many of them small, craft distilleries. The great G&T (gin and tonic) has earned new respect and is more fashionable now than when it was created by the English during Queen Victoria's reign. From Glenfiddich Food...
The 7th edition of a book that is widely regarded by members of the drinks industry as the most complete and authoritative cocktail publication available. It contains 2,250 easy to follow cocktail recipes, each accompanied by a colour photograph. It also includes detailed instructions for beginners, tips for bar professionals, reviews of the top 100 international bars and a history of the cocktail.
Making it easy to create delicious cocktails at home.
Drink your way through history, learn tips from the best bartenders, and become a cocktail connoisseur with this fantastic guide. The Cocktail Companion spans the cocktail’s curious history from its roots in beer-swilling, 18th-century England through the illicit speakeasy culture of the United States Prohibition to the explosive, dynamic industry it is today. Learn about famous and classic cocktails from around the globe, how ice became one of the most important ingredients in mixed drink making, and how craft beers got so big, all with your own amazing drink?that you made yourself!?in hand. In The Cocktail Companion, well-known bartenders from across the United States offer up advice on ...
A compendium of over 2000 cocktail recipes, with pictures of each one.
Winner of the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award for Best New Cocktail & Bartending Book Dead Rabbit Grocery & Grog in Lower Manhattan has dominated the bar industry, receiving award after award including World's Best Bar, World’s Best Cocktail Menu, World’s Best Drink Selection, and Best American Cocktail Bar. Now, the critically acclaimed bar has its first cocktail book, The Dead Rabbit Drinks Manual, which, along with its inventive recipes, also details founder Sean Muldoon and bar manager Jack McGarry’s inspiring rags-to-riches story that began in Ireland and has brought them to the top of the cocktail world. Like the bar’s décor, Dead Rabbit’s award-winning drinks are a nod to the “Gangs of New York” era. They range from fizzes to cobblers to toddies, each with its own historical inspiration. There are also recipes for communal punches as well as an entire chapter on absinthe. Along with the recipes and their photos, this stylish and handsome book includes photographs from the bar itself so readers are able to take a peek into the classic world of Dead Rabbit.
In a stylishly dressed bar-top guide, filled with glorious color photographs, renowned bartender Salvatore Calabrese introduces a definitive list of 110 cocktails you're sure to want to make, complete with recipes and stories behind each. Anecdotes and images recall classic cocktail eras from the Prohibition speakeasy to the wartime lounge. 192 (all in color) pp.
We've trawled the globe and pulled together a compendium of quirky happenings, anniversaries, birthdays and traditional events and, using our vast knowledge of the cocktail world, paired each one with an appropriate cocktail. Celebrate everything from Mandela's inauguration to aliens' alleged arrival from outer space. Contents include: * Leninade on January 27, the day the siege of Leningrad was broken * Honey Bee Mine on February 14, Valentine's Day * Shamrock on March 17, St Patrick's Day * The Money Penny on April 13, James Bond's birthday * Darth Jäger on May 4, Star Wars Day * Dry Ice Martini on June 18, the Icelandic Independence Day * La Bicyclette on July 1, the day the first Tour de France started * Old Flame on August 24, the day Vesuvius erupted * Vacation Cocktail on September 27, World Tourism Day * Bitches' Brew on October 31, Hallowe'en * Berlin Sour on November 9, the day the Berlin Wall came down * Rosarita Margarita on December 1, the day Rosa Parks got on a bus ...and 353 more!