Cocktails

Good Things to Drink with Mr Lyan and Friends

Cocktails aren’t just for fancy nights out and snobby home mixologists. In Good Things to Drink with Mr Lyan and Friends, Mr Lyan (the man behind the award-winning White Lyan and Dandelyan bars in London) shows you how 60 innovative and exciting cocktails can be part of your everyday life. Easy to make and beautifully photographed, the cocktails …

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The Bloody Mary Book: Reinventing a Classic Cocktail

The stalwart cocktail classic has been around for almost a century and continues to be the go-to drink for weekend brunches, parties, and game-day tailgating. The Bloody Mary Book features 65 new and innovative recipes to surprise any party guest.A basic Bloody Mary requires no more skill than simply pouring, but this book makes use of all possible …

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The Wildcrafted Cocktail: Make Your Own Foraged Syrups, Bitters, Infusions, and Garnishes; Includes Recipes for 45 One-of-a-Kind Mixed Drinks

Meet the natural lovechild of the popular local-foods movement and craft cocktail scene. It’s here to show you just how easy it is to make delicious, one-of-a-kind mixed drinks with common flowers, berries, roots, and leaves that you can find along roadsides or in your backyard. Foraging expert Ellen Zachos gets the party started with recipes for more …

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Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes from a Bootlegger’s Manual

Nominated for a James Beard Award, more than 100 secret and forgotten formulas for illicit boozeAmerican Prohibition was far from watertight. If you knew the right people, or the right place to go, you could get a drink―most likely a variation of the real thing, made by blending smuggled, industrial alcohol or homemade moonshines with extracts, herbs, and …

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How to Drink French Fluently: A Guide to Joie de Vivre with St-Germain Cocktails

A cocktail book celebrating French conviviality with recipes featuring St-Germain liqueur. Bring an effortless French sensibility to any occasion with the transporting flavor of St-Germain, the captivating elderflower liqueur beloved by bartenders everywhere. How to Drink French Fluently contains more than 30 cocktail recipes by some of the top names in the bartending world including Jim Meehan, Jeffrey …

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North Star Cocktails: Johnny Michaels and the North Star Bartenders’ Guild

Recognized as one of the twin cities’ best drink makers, Johnny Michaels is the cocktail connoisseur’s answer to a gourmet chef. His home base is the James Beard award-winning La Belle Vie, but he’s designed the cocktail menus for several of its sister restaurants and other top metro eateries. Together with premiere bartenders such as Pip Hanson, Nick …

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A Drink of One’s Own: Cocktails for Literary Ladies

Fifty cocktails are each inspired by famous women writers from around the world, from the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, France, Germany and others. With cocktail recipes and literary profiles of the writers that inspired them, discover the delights of the Sylvia Plath, the Virginia Woolf, the Simone de Beauvoir, the Zelda Fitzgerald, the Angela Carter, the Margaret …

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The Essential Cocktail Book: A Complete Guide to Modern Drinks with 150 Recipes

An attractive companion to The Essential Bar Book, this gorgeously photographed compendium for professional and home bartenders offers recipes, history, and techniques to create 150 essential cocktails, both modern and classic. How do you create the perfect Daiquiri? What type of glass should a Whiskey Sour be served in? What exactly is an aperitif cocktail? The Essential Cocktail …

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Meehan’s Bartender Manual

A stunningly packaged, definitive guide to bar-building from one of the world’s most acclaimed bartenders.   Meehan’s Bartender Manual is acclaimed mixologist Jim Meehan’s magnum opus—and the first book to explain the ins and outs of the modern bar industry. This groundbreaking work chronicles Meehan’s storied career in the bar business through practical, enlightening chapters that mix …

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Clean Cocktails: Righteous Recipes for the Modernist Mixologist

Drink to your health with fresh herbs, spices, and natural sweeteners.In Clean Cocktails, holistic health coaches Beth Ritter Nydick and Tara Roscioli bring a clean-living mindset to craft mixology.Their recipes use nothing but neutral, low-calorie spirits; fresh juices loaded with vitamins; gentle sweeteners like honey and maple syrup; and anti-inflammatory spices like cinnamon, cayenne, and turmeric―the perfect alternative …

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