Filled with beautiful, evocative photography illustrative charts and infographics and colorful essays about the characters who fill the bar each night Death & Co-like its namesake bar-is bold, elegant, and setting the pace for mixologists around the world.ĭead Rabbit Grocery & Grog in Lower Manhattan has dominated the bar industry, receiving award after award including World’s Best Bar, World’s Best Cocktail Menu, World’s Best Drink Selection, and Best American Cocktail Bar. But more than just a collection of recipes, Death & Co is also a complete cocktail education, with information on the theory and philosophy of drink making, a complete guide to buying and using spirits, and step-by-step instructions for mastering key bartending techniques. Boasting a supremely talented and creative bar staff-the best in the industry-Death & Co is also the birthplace of some of the modern era’s most iconic drinks, such as the Oaxaca Old-Fashioned, Naked and Famous, and the Conference.ĭestined to become a definitive reference on craft cocktails, Death & Co features more than 500 of the bar’s most innovative and sought-after cocktails. Since its opening in 2006, Death & Co has been a must-visit destination for serious drinkers and cocktail enthusiasts, and the winner of every major industry award-including America’s Best Cocktail Bar and Best Cocktail Menu at the Tales of the Cocktail convention. This colorful and good-humored volume is a must-read for anyone who appreciates the timeless appeal of a well-made drink-and the uniquely American history behind it. It also provides more detail about 19th century spirits, many new and colorful anecdotes and details about Thomas’s life, and a number of particularly notable, delicious, and influential cocktails not covered in the original edition, rounding out the picture of pre-Prohibition tippling. Now updated with newly discovered recipes and historical information, this new edition includes the origins of the first American drink, the Mint Julep (which Wondrich places before the American Revolution), and those of the Cocktail itself. The first edition, published in 2007, won a James Beard Award. Wondrich reveals never-before-published details and stories about this larger-than-life nineteenth-century figure, along with definitive recipes for more than 100 punches, cocktails, sours, fizzes, toddies, slings, and other essential drinks, along with detailed historical and mixological notes. As such, distilled spirits are all the rage and cocktail bars feature hand-crafted spirits for their specialty drinks.Ĭocktail writer and historian David Wondrich presents the colorful, little-known history of classic American drinks-and the ultimate mixologist’s guide-in this engaging homage to Jerry Thomas, father of the American bar. Cocktails are becoming fashionable once again. New post prohibition laws are finally acquiescing to the distillery and giving their blessings to tasting rooms and sales. This is a book about the distillers and distilleries that have in very recent years emerged on the California landscape. They were given complete “literary freedom.” The result is their own words, unfiltered. There was no attempt to create a template for the distillers to follow to tell their backstories. The style of each Distilled Story is also different, just like each hand-crafted distilled spirit is different. The one common denominator is the hard work, tenacity and sacrifice each distiller makes as he/she navigates their own path to the still. Each backstory is different and engaging. Some came from generations of distilling families from the old country and others left high tech or corporate careers to pursue a new venture into the world of distilled spirits. Distilled Stories: California Artisans Behind The Spirits is a book about the spirit makers distillers tell their personal stories about their journey to the still.
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