Let’s be honest: who doesn’t want to be a little bit Italian? To glide through Rome on a Vespa like Marcello Mastroianni, wearing an impeccable suit? Or sit in St Mark’s Square in Venice at dusk, nibbling cicchetti and sipping an Aperol spritz? This is la dolce vita, and this is aperitivo – Italy’s take on drinks and …
You don’t need to be a mixologist from Manhattan or a bartender from Brooklyn to make more than 100 of the Big Apple’s most celebrated and classic cocktails! With bars, lounges and pubs dotting almost every block in the city, the Big Apple has an unmatched and incomparable cocktail culture—and now you can travel straight to the epicenter of …
Mezcal, unlike its infamous offspring, tequila, has until recently been one of Mexico’s best-kept secrets. And if the only thing that springs to mind when you think of tequila is tequila slammers, it’s time to think again. ‘Mezcalerias’ are popping up across the world and mezcal is increasingly seen on the menus of the most discerning and hippest …
Everyone thinks that they know how to drink, but do you really know the difference between a scotch and a whiskey? How about a gin or vodka martini? Do you know whether Johnny Walker is a single malt or a scotch? Well now is the time to finally learn the definitive answers to these questions, and so many …
Distilled in Oregon: A History & Guide with Cocktail Recipes (American Palate)
Early Oregon fur traders concocted a type of distilled beverage known as “Blue Ruin,” used in commerce with local Native Americans. Drawn by the abundant summer harvests of the Willamette Valley, distillers put down roots in the nineteenth century. Because of Oregon’s early sunset on legal liquor production in 1916–four years before national Prohibition–hundreds of illicit stills popped …
The ultimate bar book, from the world’s finest cognac producer. Lavishly illustrated, this is the first book on the world’s most famous cognac producer. Considered a benchmark of excellence, its blends have become icons of refinement and luxury. In Pass the Henny, renowned writer Glenn O’Brien invites the reader to discover the history of cognac. The highly …
Cocktails of the Movies: An Illustrated Guide to Cinematic Mixology
Now available in a new pocket edition, Cocktails of the Movies serves up the 64 greatest cocktails to have featured on film. Take a journey through Hollywood’s lifelong love affair with cocktails, celebrating the greatest characters and their iconic drinks through original illustrations and easy-to-follow recipes. From Marilyn’s Manhattan in Some Like It Hot to The Dude’s White …
Keeping Up with Today’s Wines: A Journal for Your Tasting Adventures
Keeping Up with Today’s Wines is a handy journal for recording your wine tasting experiences. The increasing choices and variety of wine with clever and sometimes similar names can made it hard to keep track of the delights and disappointments found when dining, at wine bars, and in stores. You can list and score 100 wines as well …
The 10th edition of Wine Behind the Label is published early next month with its most comprehensive analysis to date of wine producers, their vineyards and their wines. The guide remains unique in that it features not only the most up to date profiles of individual wineries from all the main producing countries of the world. …
Piemonte in northwestern Italy, is one of the world’s greatest wine and food regions. This book, written by Tom Hyland, a specialist in Italian wines for more than twenty years, is divided into two parts: the first is the author’s overview of the region’s wines, from the great reds, such as Barolo and Barbaresco, to the whites, sparkling, …