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"It's not your mother's Piña Colada! Sophisticated, flavorful, with fresh ingredients and the perfect hit of booze, a sloshie is a high-octane slushie--the ideal summer drink that's a far cry from the cloyingly sweet blender cocktails of yore. Written by Jerry Nevins, cofounder of Kansas City's Snow & Co.--named the #1 frozen cocktail bar in the United States--Sloshies features more than 100 innovative refreshers guaranteed to jazz up (and cool down)...
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"For guests, the cocktail hour is the highlight of any party, but hosts can find it stressful to keep the drinks flowing. The solution is simple : Batch it! In this hip collection, Maggie Hoffman offers sixty-five delicious, modern pitcher cocktails that can be made in advance and will serve several friends at time. Organized by flavor profile, with an additional index by season and occasion, [this book] makes it easy to find your new signature drink--and...
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Sixty of the world's coolest and most influential women are the inspiration for this refreshing and fun collection of drink recipes that are sure to bring extra zest to your cocktail shaker. Free the Tipple pays tribute to a brilliant range of diverse women from the 20th century to today who have made waves in entertainment, the arts, politics, fashion, literature, sports, and science, including Frida Kahlo, Rihanna, Serena Williams, Virginia Woolf,...
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Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the surprising botanical history and fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers, trees, and fruits (and even a few fungi).Some of the most extraordinary and obscure plants have been fermented...
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In 1862, Jerry Thomas published a recipe book for drinks that is arguably the most famous and widely read bartender's cocktail book ever written. Known most often as "Jerry Thomas' Bartender's Guide: or How to Mix Drinks" it was the first drink recipe book published in the United States. Thomas codified what had been an oral tradition of recipes from the earliest days of the use of distilled spirits and established a new, standardized form for many...
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Alain, fasciné par le nombril des jeunes femmes, Charles, obnubilé par Staline, Caliban, un comédien, et Roman se retrouvent au cocktail d'anniversaire de D'Ardelo, un ancien collègue de Ramon, qui feint d'être atteint d'un cancer incurable. Ces personnages, tous en quête de bonheur, illustrent une époque devenue comique à force de manquer de sens de l'humour.
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From martinis to margaritas to Manhattans, everyone is mixing it up these days. And the guide they're flipping over-and through-is the classic Mulligan's Bar Guide. For almost two decades, Mulligan's has been the bestselling drink bible. This compendium of liquor lore contains more than 350 recipes for cocktails, liqueurs and shooters; toasts; Internet links; and a lexicon of libationary terms. Mulligan's Bar Guide is the host's best friend, providing...
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It's a tiki murder mystery in the tropical heart of Trois-Rivières! When a former limbo champion is found dead in her apartment, the local police force finds no reason to suspect foul play. But amateur detective (and bookworm barmaid extraordinaire) Marie-Pomme knows there's more to this case than just too much piña colada... and she intends to prove it, even if it means risking her own life at the bowling alley!
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An innovative, captivating tour of the finest whiskies the world has to offer, brought to you by bestselling author and whisky connoisseur Tristan Stephenson.
Tristan explores the origins of whisky, from the extraordinary Chinese distillation pioneers well over 2,000 years ago to the discovery of the medicinal 'aqua vitae' (water of life), through to the emergence of what we know as whisky. Explore the magic of malting, the development of flavour...
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It's a busy Friday night and you're in the weeds. Drinks are dying in the window and a Mikana VSOP is on you like phylloxera. The point is sloppy, nothing is mise en place and you just realized you clopen. All you want is a quick staff meeting and reset to zero. You see a soul stealer walk in but its ok because they will camp out at a table and not the bar. All is good because you read this Bar Dictionary and understand...
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