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Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: From the Alamagoozlum to the Zombie 100 Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them
by
Ted Haigh
In this expanded and updated edition of Forgotten Cocktails and Vintage Spirits, historian, expert, and drink aficionado Dr. Cocktail adds another 20 fine recipes to his hand-picked collection of 80 rare-and-worth-rediscovered drink recipes, shares revelations about the latest cocktail trends, provides new resources for uncommon ingredients, and profiles of many of the coc...more
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
October 1st 2009
by Quarry Books
(first published October 1st 2004)
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I'm still working my way through this book, but it is already my favorite cocktail book EVER! One of the great things about this book is that it forces the drinks mixer to acknowledge the significance of ingredients. It really teaches you that ingredients are critically important and a recipe can be utterly useless without very specific ingredients. The lesson of ingredients is a difficult one to learn with this book because it sends you off on wild chases for obscure liquors and bitters. Y...more
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Very informative, really makes you feel in touch with the cocktail renaissance! The history and ingredient information is very good. Unfortunately, the drink recipes themselves are not very tasty. I've mixed all the cocktails from the book that don't require some obscure, expensive liqueur. Most a few are downright undrinkable, most are mediocre. There's only one, The Derby Cocktail, that I'd mix again with enthusiasm.
Our modern professor, Ted Haigh, marries fabulous design (handy spiral-bound pages within a hard cover, busy yet elegant page layouts, fine color photographs) and extremely up-to-date content: I loved his historiography of contemporary cocktail culture, with biographies of the most influential cocktail websites and bartenders to emerge in the past 15 years.
A few weeks with this volume and you'll be tight with the cocktail authorities.
As for the recipes: if you wor...more
A few weeks with this volume and you'll be tight with the cocktail authorities.
As for the recipes: if you wor...more
Great book with many drink recipes if you like liquor. Many sweet drinks, some I would leave out the simple syrup if I were making them. Lots of added juices, bitters, and curacao to sweeten the deal.
Read by ACRL Member of the Week Jan Hartley. Learn more about Jan on the ACRL Insider blog.
Commentary and recipes are great. I read this book cover to cover like a novel, even though much of it is just recipes. Great cocktail book.
wOOt! Awesome for the Speakeasy party. I've tabbed all the ones I can make and I am still trying them all!
Great photography, design, and it's funny. Haven't had many of the drinks, though. Richard, get busy!
Glorious.Clio
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Excellent, colorful, and totally fun. I want to try a great deal of these cocktails.
Decided my cookbook collection needed some solid cocktail books, so this is the first to get called in. In a quick glance it looks great, spiral bound for easy use, history of drinks and ingredients and the first recipe calls for both genever and egg white. I'm in love.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that it's impossible NOT to learn something new about cocktails from this book for all but the absolute most seasoned of enthusiasts. Well researched, clearly written, and packed with recipes.
Solid update to a unique collection of recipes and commentary.
Impressive bit of work here; especially on the research end.
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