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Reading & Learning | Books & Recipe Cards on Cocktails
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items Weather you want to dive into a speakeasy treasure or simply pick a card, any card to learn recipes, these are your North Star.
I already have author Kara Newman's Gin, Tequila and Whiskey cocktail card sets. They are simply elegant and the illustrations are divine. I've broadened my repertoire with The Cocktail Cabinet sessions!
The Cocktail Cabinet: Spritz Essentials
The clever cut out of a lime. Gosh, these recipes cards are so.well.designed! Kara Newman's 3rd in The Cocktail Cabinet series. I learn something every time I look through them.
The Cocktail Cabinet: Tequila & Mezcal Drinks
I don't have this one yet but I'm eager to get my hands on any of Kara Newman's incredible cocktail recipe cards. I already have Gin, Whiskey and Tequila. They are simply and cleverly designed. Beautiful -- and instructive.
The Cocktail Cabinet: Rum - Essential Drinks
The first of Kara Newman's recipe card series I bought (along with Gin). The Cocktail Cabinet does not disappoint. Artfully designed. Old school to modern recipes. I always learn something.
The Cocktail Cabinet: Whiskey Essentials
The first of Kara Newman's recipe card series I bought (along with Whiskey). This box is now a little worse for wear. I've dragged it to almost every market for over a year. Gorgeous designs. Excellent recipes.
The Cocktail Cabinet: Gin - Essential Drinks
Wait, what?!? Published last fall (without me knowing) ... this The Cocktail Cabinet addition is bringing it alllll together. Stunning illustrations. Pitch perfect recipe instructions. Cannot go wrong.
The Cocktail Cabinet: Vodka Essentials
Aperitifs are *the foundation for all classic cocktails. Kara Newman's elegantly simple yet on-point recipes cards spill all the tea on how to craft your perfect aperitif at home.
The Cocktail Cabinet: Aperitif Essentials
Just out this spring, Kara Newman's latest The Cocktail Cabinet recipe card series ... I have yet to own it but must have it. Her reputation for amazing illustrations and excellent recipes makes it a must-have for me.
The Cocktail Cabinet: Low/No Essential Drinks
If you want your cocktail served with a side of history, this is legend.
Imbibe! Updated Edition: Stories & Drinks to Jerry Thomas
Breaking down the mystery of a good cocktail, authors Alex, Nick and David deliver. There are only 6 cocktails, they say. Learn the "root recipes" here.
Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals & Formulas
Yes, I drank cocktails at Milk & Honey in New York City. This is the owner's only book ... and it's so approachable. 85 recipes and they run the gamut.
Regarding Cocktails by Sasha Petraske
If a graphic novel is what it takes for you to read and turn a page, this book is for you. One part recipe book, one part illustrated menu, and all narrative -- including tales of some of New York's most famous bartenders.
The Dead Rabbit Mixology & Mayhem Book
If you are new-ish to cocktail culture and find yourself saddling up to a bar every now and then, read this. (And get a copy for your college-age relative.) Jeffrey dishes on bar etiquette and how not to be an asshole.
Drinking Distilled: A User's Manual
Legendary. Necessary. Get it.
The Savoy Cocktail Book: Value Edition
The Bible of cocktails. Easily, the most famous bartenders' book of all times. And it was the first cocktail book ever published in the United States!
Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide: Mix Drinks 1862