Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: Prohibition Centennial Edition: From the 1920 Pick-Me-Up to the Zombie and Beyond
Along with 100+ rare and delicious authentic recipes gathered from old cocktail manuals and scraps of paper never published, this illustrated trip down mixology lane tells the fascinating origins of the cocktail and how it evolved over time, including its rising popularity during Prohibition. Vintage illustrations and advertisements, photos of old bottles and cocktail artifacts, and fascinating Prohibition-era photographs bring the tippling past back to vivid life.
Fascinating historical ephemera presented by historian, expert, and drink aficionado Dr. Cocktail. This homage to the great bartenders of the past and the beverages they created also profiles some of the most influential cocktail pioneers of today. For anyone who enjoys an icy drink and an unforgettable tale, this is a must-have volume.
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Disco Cube Cocktails: 100+ innovative recipes for artful ice and drinks
Disco Cube Cocktails is a ’70s-inspired cocktail book based on the magical properties of ice.
With 100+ recipes for artful ice and the drinks that go with them, home bartenders can learn new icy creations to elevate any classic drink, infuse new flavour into a sipper as the ice melts, or impress friends at a party with a frosty punch bowl.
While traveling as a DJ, Leslie Kirchhoff fell in love with the art of craft cocktails, but noticed one thing was missing: inventive ice. Taking it upon herself to create something truly unique, she started Disco Cubes as a passion project to explore the art of ice. Now you can do the same at home with recipes that offer more than just a classic cube.
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Drinking with Chickens: Free-Range Cocktails for the Happiest Hour
It’s drinks, it’s chickens: It’s the cocktail book you didn’t know you needed!
To add some extra happy to your happy hour, invite a chicken and pour yourself a drink. Author Kate Richards serves up cocktails made for Instagram with the spoils of her Southern California garden, chicken friends by her side.
Enjoy any (or all) of the 60+ deliciously drinkable garden-to-glass beverages. And you don’t need chickens to enjoy these drinks or the colorful photos, but be careful, because you may even find yourself aspiring to be, as Kate is, a home chixologist overrun by gorgeous, loud, early-rising egg-laying ladies, and in need of a very strong drink.
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Camp Cocktails: Easy, Fun, and Delicious Drinks for the Great Outdoors
Learn how to plan, pack, and whip up great drinks in the great outdoors.
Cabin trips, hikes, patio parties, camping adventures—however you enjoy the great outdoors, it should be fun and easy. And so should the drinks! Simplicity, though, doesn’t mean you’re limited to a bottle and a mixer. With Camp Cocktails, you’ll have a variety of options for simple and tasty drinks that are ready to go wherever you go.
Every recipe comes with easy-to-follow instructions, and many feature expert bartender tips and hacks. A variety of occasions are all here, from stargazing to boating. And to round it all out, there’s a whole chapter dedicated to foraging/found ingredients, and integrating nature into your favorite cocktails.
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Hollywood Cocktails: Over 95 Recipes Celebrating Films from Paramount Pictures
A Toast to Hollywood!
Paramount Pictures, the oldest Hollywood studio in operation, has released countless award-winning and box office-busting movies that have spanned the age of cinema, from the medium’s silent advent to talkies, color, and CGI blockbusters.
Hollywood Cocktails features more than 100 cocktails inspired by over 100 iconic films, all released by Paramount Pictures. This gorgeously illustrated collection of star power is filled with film facts and detailed recipes that guarantee you’ll never again be wondering what to drink or watch.
Hollywood Cocktails will delight movie buffs and mixologists alike!
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The Harry Potter Cocktail Cookbook: 35 Extraordinary Drink Recipes Inspired by The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
The charming essence of any cocktail is the story behind it. An event or journey of old upon which the cocktail is founded.
The Harry Potter cocktail cookbook takes readers through a story persistence, perseverance, friendship and love. Within its pages, J.k Rowling brought to life the fundamental various aspects of enthralling friendship values all cast in a magical set. This Harry Potter cocktail book is a subtle reminder of various characters, scenes and mystical object we’ve all come to love. From the first chapter, the book tasks you through various amazing cocktail recipes inspired by various characters and named after true events, wizards, animals or potions with in the Harry Potter book.
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Drinking with Your Patron Saints: The Sinner’s Guide to Honoring Namesakes and Protectors
There’s a patron saint for everything. And Michael Foley has a drink for every patron saint.
Have a problem with the IRS? Pray to St. Matthew and mix up a classic Income Tax cocktail to toast the tax collector apostle. Looking for a deal at a gun show?
Try St. Adrian of Nicomedia, the patron of arms manufacturers, and raise a glass of craft beer from Denver’s Call to Arms in the saint’s honor. Or stir up a Gunfire, traditionally served to British soldiers on Christmas Day. Need to sell your house?
Packed with inspiring stories and delicious drink recipes for saints from Adam to Zita, this book will be a boost to your spiritual life—and your spirits.
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Easy Tiki: A Modern Revival with 60 Recipes
60 recipes inspired by the history of tiki as well as the modern revival that’s putting a fresh spin on tropical tiki drinks–all simplified for the home bartender from cocktail authority PUNCH.
Easy Tiki examines the modern tiki revival offering sixty transporting recipes that re-jigger the classics with minimal ingredients while still maintaining the delicious balance, spices, and stunning garnishes that define tiki cocktails.
Drinks include classics such as the Beachcomber’s Gold and Fog Cutter and modern cocktails such as Elusive Dreams and Paradise Lost. Easy Tiki also includes an overview of the origins of the tiki genre, from Don the Beachcomber and the mid-century tiki craze to Trader Vic’s and beyond.
Available on amazon from May 12th.
Spirits of Latin America: A Celebration of Culture & Cocktails, with 100 Recipes from Leyenda & Beyond
A James Beard Award-nominated bartender explores the history and culture of Latin American spirits in this stunningly photographed travelogue—with 100+ irresistible cocktails featuring tequila, rum, pisco, and more that have garnered acclaim at her Brooklyn bar, Leyenda.
Through its in-depth look at drinking culture throughout Latin America, this gorgeous book offers a rich cultural and historical context for understanding Latin spirits. Ivy Mix has dedicated years to traveling south, getting to know Latin culture, in part through what the locals drink.
What she details in this book is the discovery that Latin spirits echo the Latin palate, which echoes Latin life, emphasizing spiciness, vivaciousness, strength, and variation.
Available on amazon from May 26th
