The Gimlet

(from Blood & Whiskey #25)

Cocktail of the Month

This guest drink comes from

Michael Ruhlman

, whose new book — The Book of Cocktail Ratios: The Surprising Simplicity of Classic Cocktails — is a must have for those who want to up their mixology game by understanding the kinship between so many drinks, and how swapping one ingredient turns, for example, a Manhattan into a Rob Roy and a Negroni into a Boulevardier.

Here’s Michael (who publishes the great

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