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Everyday Drinking has captured a permanent spot as my second-category book. This is of course subjective – I have a special soft spot for drinks that are awful-sounding and/or old-fashioned; you may not – but I really can’t recommend this enough, because besides many excellent recipes, there are herein dozens of near-sociopathic tips for how to make, serve, economize on, and best enjoy drinks. You call this “enabling”, I call a coherent philosophy of life. And it’s written by a writer! It really does take a Booker Prize-winner to put to paper thoughts like “The first, indeed the only requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.” Cheers, I say. Hic! Ahem.

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