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Romantic Cocktails

Craft Cocktail Recipes for Couples, Crushes, and Star-Crossed Lovers
By Clair McLafferty
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Romantic Cocktails by Clair McLafferty is a captivating collection of over 100 classic and craft cocktail recipes designed to charm couples and star-crossed lovers alike. With simple step-by-step instructions and vibrant full-colour photographs, this book offers delightful drinks such as The Afternoon Delight, Boozy Milkshake for Two, and The Goodnight Kiss. Filled with romantic quotations and expert bartender tips, it’s the perfect guide to mix enchanting drinks that celebrate love.
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This book is ideal for home bartenders, cocktail enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a charming, romantic gift or an elegant companion for entertaining couples and loved ones.

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Romantic Cocktails is a bewitching collection of over 100 classic and craft cocktail recipes, perfect for winning hearts -- and mending broken ones, too!

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Romantic Cocktails is a bewitching collection of over 100 classic and craft cocktail recipes, perfect for winning hearts—and mending broken ones, too!

Inside the plush red foil cover of Romantic Cocktails, you will find the secret to mixing up more than 100 cocktails for couples, crushes, and star-crossed lovers. Simple step-by-step instructions and gorgeous full-colour photographs make every drink recipe easy and truly swoon-worthy.

The drinks are as fun and charming as they are intoxicating, with names including:

  • The Afternoon Delight - a little sweet, a little naughty
  • Boozy Milkshake for Two - two straws please
  • Between the Sheets - a romantic variation on the classic Sidecar cocktail
  • The Vesper Martini - synonymous with sophistication
  • The Goodnight Kiss - the perfect nightcap for a night you don’t want to end

Author and bartender Clair McLafferty offers insider tips and tricks for everything from sizing up recipes for a party to fixing a drink that didn’t turn out quite right. Throughout the book, you will find drink-related romantic quotations and toasts from the likes of Shakespeare, Louisa May Alcott, and James Baldwin.

Whether you are looking for a romantic gift or a reliably excellent cocktail book for your home bar, Romantic Cocktails will knock your socks off!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781732512610

Publisher: HarperCollins Focus

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 January 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Whalen Book Works

Contributors:

  • Photographs by Abraham Rowe

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 25.0mm

Height: 25.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Clair McLafferty is a craft bartender and writer based in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2013, she quit her office job to learn the art of craft bartending after writing about the local scene. Making drinks fed into researching and writing about them, and her current occupation was born. She is the author of The Classic & Craft Cocktail Recipe Book: The Definitive Guide to Mixing Perfect Cocktails from Aviation to Zombie (Rockridge Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in The Bitter Southerner, Mental Floss, The Food Network, and more. For more of her writing, visit clairmclafferty.com. 

Abraham Rowe Photography is based in Florence, Alabama, and work in commercial, documentary, and editorial photography. They offer expertise in photo styling, as well as product, lifestyle, and food photography for manufacturing companies, artisans, musicians, e-commerce businesses, and food brands. Their work has been printed in Elle Décor, Local Palate, Rolling Stone, The National, Garden & Gun, Southern Living, Relix, No-Ala Magazine, and Business Alabama as well as online at Kinfolk, The Bitter Southerner, Cottage Hill, Local Milk, Paste Magazine, and The New York Times T Magazine.

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