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Required Reading for Serious Cocktail Enthusiasts

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The Joy of Mixology: The Consummate Guide to the Bartender's Craft

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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This book offers not only a solid history of mixed cocktails but an instruction manual for bartenders, with everything from bartender etiquette (how to treat a customer who doesn't tip, how to tell someone he's had enough) to the brass tacks of tending bar (how to arrange liquor bottles, how to rim a glass and how to pour out precise measurements).

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The Art of the Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the Classics

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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From Tokyo to New York, a cocktail renaissance is happening as "bar chefs" create delicious elixirs worthy of their kitchen counterparts. An epicenter of this barroom artistry can be found at the Absinthe Brasserie & Bar in San Francisco (a city that spends more money per capita on alcohol than any other in the country). Bartenders Jeff Hollinger and Bob Schwartz share their artisan approach for stunning creations that unveil a new spectrum of flavors. Fresh herbs and even aromatic lavender are deftly used to augment classic and new cocktail recipes. Syrups and mixes are carefully crafted from scratch, ensuring small-batch perfection and a harmony of flavors.

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The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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This is the first real cookbook for cocktails, covering the entire breadth of this rich subject. The Craft of the Cocktail provides much more than merely the same old recipes: it delves into history, personalities, and anecdotes; it shows you how to set up a bar, master important techniques, and use tools correctly; and it delivers unique concoctions,

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The Cocktails of the Ritz Paris

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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The former bartender at the Ritz Paris's legendary Bar Hemingway reveals the intoxicating secrets for concocting the world's greatest cocktails--with more than fifty drink recipes and full-color illustrations throughout.

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The Stork Club Bar Book

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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This is a must have for anyone who collects bar items. It also provides a great taste of history for anyone who likes New York and the trendiest bar (The Stork Club, owned and operated by Sherman Billingsley) of yesteryear.

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Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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"The story of the cocktail itself is long overdue. In Straight Up Or on The Rocks, William Grimes does an expert job--mixing classic-drink recipes with wonderful accounts that will leave cocktail connoisseurs happy." --Paul Engleman, Playboy magazine

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Esquire Drinks: An Opinionated & Irreverent Guide to Drinking With 250 Drink Recipes

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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Anyone can lift a glass—but drinking with class, taste, and wisdom is a completely different matter. David Wondrich, Esquire magazine’s renowned “drink pundit,” is here to remedy that sad situation and restore a tradition of intelligent, sophisticated drinking. Wondrich simply provides the liveliest history of drinks imaginable, serving up wit and wisdom that will help you sort out the classic from the crass and master the fundamentals of mixology.

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Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: From the Alamagoozlum Cocktail to the Zombie

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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Here, historian, expert, and drink aficionado Dr. Cocktail has hand-picked 80 drinks rarely made today, and all of them deserve revival. Some are from the nineteenth century, some from the Prohibition era, and some from just after World War II, as the golden age of the cocktail was waning. All are retrieved from extremely uncommon sources. In fact, some of these drinks were found carefully penned into old cocktail manuals or on scraps of paper and may never have been published. They are true treasures, indeed.

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The Flowing Bowl - 19th Century Cocktail Bar Recipes

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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This is a complete unabridged reprint of a very rare 1898 book, complete with the author's tales in search of all sorts of exotic cocktails, such as things were in the 19th century.

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How's Your Drink?: Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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Cocktails are back and this one details not only entertaining anecdotes involving some of history's most important figures but also exhaustively researched cocktail recipes.

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Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book (Classic Cocktail Books series)

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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A post-prohibition collection of pre-prohibition drink recipes based on the bar manual of the Waldorf-Astoria bar. This is a must have for anyone who has or indulges in the finer things in life.

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Jigger, Beaker and Glass: Drinking Around the World

Updated Dec 26, 2007

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A must-have for the serious cocktail enthusiast. Filled with vintage cocktail recipes, you may not be able to get some of the ingredients in some of them but you'll gain insight into the importance of cocktails back in the day.

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Alcoholica Esoterica

Updated Dec 25, 2007

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Another book that bartenders recommend. This one presents the history and culture of booze, offering interesting facts and hilarious anecdotes.

Divided into chapters covering the basic booze groups—including beer, wine, Champagne, whiskey, rum, gin, vodka, and tequila—Alcoholica Esoterica charts the origin and rise of each alcohol’s particular charms and influence.

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The Savoy Cocktail Book

Updated Dec 25, 2007

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Several bartenders who take mixology seriously and who are dedicated to bringing the vintage cocktails back have recommended this book to me which was originally published in 1930 and features 750 of legendary Savoy barman Harry Craddock's most popular recipes.

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Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash

Updated Dec 25, 2007

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"Imbibe brings back the delicious forgotten cocktails created by a pioneering American bon vivant....This book is a model for food history writing....{Wondrich is} always an enjoyable writer, curious, eager, mildly opinionated and with a taste for the amusing." --The Los Angeles Times

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The cocktail culture is back along with bar chefs and bar etiquette. And if you take your drinking as seriously as all that, this is the reading list for you -- filled with vintage cocktail recipes and fascinating history.
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