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Title: Cocktail: The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century by Paul Harrington, Laura Moorhead ISBN: 0-670-88022-1 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The foundation for an excellent bar library
Comment: This book focuses on "classic" cocktails -- for the most part, those that were around before Prohibition. You won't find Sex on the Beach, but you will find a bunch of almost-forgotten morsels like the Pegu and the Mojito.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part is a primer to mixing and stocking a bar, with lots of background on various ingredients and techniques. The second part, my favorite, focuses on 64 cocktails, mostly old-school drinks like the aforementioned Pegu and Mojito. In addition to these recipes, there is also a nicely-pretentious discussion of each drink, including its history (as near as can be determined). The third part is the reference section, with a couple hundred recipes -- again, still fairly old-school -- and a nice glossary.
This book is very highly recommended. After buying this, you'll want a couple more books for your bar shelf, but you'll find yourself returning to this one again and again.
Rating: 4
Summary: Original, a refreshing change.
Comment: Cocktail : The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century by Paul Harrington and Laura Moorhead may not be the biggest book about mixing drinks around, but it certainly is one of the best. With 275 recipes, it certainly does cover its fair share of drinks, but fans of the shooter beware, you'll find no such drinks in this book. Harrington is focused on bringing back the classic cocktail, and while some may find him pretentious, or even snooty, no one can say he doesn't know what he's talking about. The most refreshing thing about this book is that it doesn't just give recipes, it give background on the cocktail, the time period it was created, and even who some of the more famous imbibers of the particular drink were. There are even well done pictures of some of the cocktails. So, if you're looking for more than just a recipe book, and you want to create some classic cocktails, check Cocktail out. However, if you're looking for Atomic Bodyslams and Sex on the beach, find another book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Be Prepared To Have Your Cocktail Standards Raised
Comment: In a world where the term "Cocktail" is quickly being replaced by the term "Martini" (as in chocolate martini, apple martini,...) Paul Harrington helps us recall the past and to turn away from such heresy.
This is an excellent book for any mixologist. For the beginner, the foundation for preparing cocktails is laid in a consise manner - with common mistakes anticipated and discussed. Beginners should be prepared, though, for their soon to be more educated tastebuds to be dissappointed by the drinks served at most establishments that offer them. With the truth contained in this book, however, readers will soon be able to study the bottles and other ingredients behind any bar (Will they use lemon juice or sour mix to prepare my drink?) and make an enlightened choice. More likely though, the reader will choose to stay at home and prepare better cocktails. There is plenty of incentive for the reader to work from home since many of the classic cocktails listed in this book cannot be prepared by the average bartender in a typically stocked cocktail bar.
There is ample recipe variety requiring a range of tools and techniques. Once the reader becomes proficient at one preparation, similar variations can be found in the recipe section at the back of the book and explored. In addition, the author provides plenty of reference information should the reader want to do their own research. The descriptions of specific cocktail establishments visited by the author and the quality of the drinks served there provide frequent travellers a new set of destination goals - for example drinking an Aviation in the Rainbow Room in NYC.
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Title: The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, With 500 Recipes by Dale Degroff, George Erml ISBN: 0609608754 Publisher: Clarkson N Potter Publishers Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: New Classic Cocktails by Gary Regan, Mardee Haidin Regan ISBN: 0764567063 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 07 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Official Harvard Student Agencies Bartending Course, 3rd Edition by Alexander Z. Speier, Amanda Burnham, Peter Vandermarck, Harvard Student Agencies ISBN: 0312252862 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book by A. S. Crockett ISBN: 0974325902 Publisher: New Day Publishing Pub. Date: 27 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Cocktails of the Ritz Paris by Colin Peter Field, Colin Field ISBN: 0743247523 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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