The Cocktail Club: A Year of Recipes and Tips for Spirited Tasting Parties

by Maureen Christian Petrosky

With a little bit of history and a lot of flavor, The Cocktail Club is a guide for connecting with your friends over the best-tasting therapy around—cock­tails! Using a format reminiscent of your favorite book club, Maureen Christian Petrosky highlights one specific spirit or drink type each month. Classic favorites like the Martini and the Old-Fashioned, as well as new sips like the Mason Jar Basil Pisco Sour and Blueberry Lavender Vodka Spritzer, will inspire novices and enthusiasts alike to build up their bar vocabulary and taste outside their comfort zone. The book also offers a delicious selection of hors d’oeuvres pairings like Grilled Figs with Prosciutto and Rosemary Lemon Bars. So whether you’ve been curious about absinthe rinses or want to bone up on your bitters, The Cocktail Club gives you the perfect excuse to pull out your shaker and dip into the art of at-home mixology.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Maureen Petrosky is a popular Lifestyle Expert that appears on NBC’s Today Show.

Author of The Wine Club, The Cocktail Club, creator of the Maker Lifestyle Website, and columnist, fans love her accessible and fun approach to making quick and easy yet sophisticated recipes, parties, decorating, food and wine pairings, and of course cocktails.

Maureen is the ultimate hostess, and only Lifestyle Expert focused on helping young professionals, moms, neighbors and co-workers bring their on-line social experiences to life with real-world social clubs inspired by her smart- chic book series, TV and spokesperson appearances and regular editorial feature “The 10- Minute Happy Hour”.

Reviews

[Keller Arnold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just got the book this week and love it. Learning a lot and stocking up my bar. Mixing cocktails is not as intimidating as most people thinkit is - be adventurous!

[Erin *BookDragon_Library* · Rating 3 out of 5]

Preferred her wine club book. This one was light on food pairing recipes and the cocktails for each liquor contained a wide variety of ingredients that make it more expensive to host and more difficult to divide tasks to guests than the wine book.