The Essential Cocktail Book

A Complete Guide to Modern Drinks with 150 Recipes
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The Essential Cocktail Book by Megan Krigbaum is a comprehensive guide to mastering the art of cocktail making. It includes classic and contemporary recipes, detailed instructions, and vibrant photographs. This book serves as a perfect companion for both beginners and experienced mixologists looking to elevate their cocktail crafting skills.
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If you delight in crafting delightful beverages at home, this book should captivate you with its collection of over 150 recipes for both classic and contemporary cocktails. Perfect for aspiring mixologists and anyone keen on enhancing their bartending skills, it offers invaluable insights into the art of drink-making and showcases vibrant, enticing photos to inspire your concoctions.

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The Essential Cocktail Book

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An attractive companion to the successful 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.

An indispensable atlas of the best cocktail recipes—each fully photographed—for classic and modern drinks, whether shaken, stirred, up, or on the rocks.

How do you create the perfect daiquiri? In what type of glass should you serve a whiskey sour? What exactly is an aperitif cocktail? A compendium for both home and professional bartenders, The Essential Cocktail Book answers all of these questions and more—through recipes, lore and techniques for 150 drinks, both modern and classic.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780399579318

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 September 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Ten Speed Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Megan Krigbaum is a wine and spirits writer, a contributing editor at PUNCH, and the former deputy wine editor atFood and Wine. There, she wrote a monthly wine column called "Bottle Service," in addition to regular feature stories pertaining to wine, spirits, and beer. PUNCHis a James Beard Award-winning media brand dedicated to drinks and drinking culture.

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