Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker

by Nick Mamatas (Compiler), Molly Tanzer (Compiler)

A cocktail is like an excellent story--bitter and sweet and over too quickly, but the memory of it stays with you. From the Pimm's Cup to Smoking Bishop, the Manhattan to the Moscow Mule, Mixed Up features not only more than two dozen classic recipes and hot tips on ingredients and preparations, but new cocktail-themed short stories from some of today's most popular and acclaimed writers.

Contributors include:

-Maurice Broaddus
-Nick Mamatas
-Selena Chambers
-Jim Nisbet
-Jarret Kobek
-Benjamin Percy
-Libby Cudmore
-Dominica Phetteplace
-Gina Marie Guadignino
-Tim Pratt
-Elizabeth Hand
-Robert Swartwood
-Cara Hoffman
-Jeff VanderMeer
-Carrie Laben
-Will Viharo
-Carmen Machado

Genres: Cookbooks, Reference, Anthologies

167 pages, Hardcover

Published October 3, 2017

About the author

Nick Mamatas is the author of the Lovecraftian Beat road novel Move Under Ground, which was nominated for both the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild awards, the Civil War ghost story Northern Gothic, also a Stoker nominee, the suburban nighmare novel Under My Roof, and over thirty short stories and hundreds of articles (some of which were collected in 3000 Miles Per Hour in Every Direction at Once). His work has appeared in Razor, Village Voice, Spex, Clamor, In These Times, Polyphony, several Disinformation and Ben Bella Books anthologies, and the books Corpse Blossoms, Poe's Lighthouse, Before & After: Stories from New York, and Short and Sweet.

Nick's forthcoming works include the collection You Might Sleep... (November 2008) and Haunted Legends, an anthology with Ellen Datlow (Tor Books 2009).

A native New Yorker, Nick now lives in the California Bay Area.

Reviews

[James Winter · Rating 4 out of 5]

A highly enjoyable little book that mixes flash fiction with cocktail recipes, all of which are excellent. In fact, "Mixed Up" inspired me to start my own home bar. Some of the recipes are pretty standard, but others I hadn't heard of, like the "Smoking Bishop," from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." I'm making it right now with the snow zipping past our windows the day before Christmas Eve. Good stuff!

[Eleni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great flash fiction plus great cocktail recipes makes for a fun read! The stories may all be connected through the theme of cocktails, but each writer manages to surprise and delight the reader with imagination and inventiveness. Highly recommended for fans of great writing and, of course, for fans of cocktails.

[Danielle T · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun flash fiction

I liked it, though nothing mind-blowing - some quick flash fiction pieces to read through while drinking any of the cocktails mentioned in them.

The cocktails are all core basics and the recipes seem straightforward; I didn't try to build any so not sure how they actually fare.

I read this to try to start digging into my Kindle TBR backlog.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clever collection of short stories. The cocktail recipes range from basic to bizarre but fit in nicely with the vibe.

[Nila · Rating 5 out of 5]

An interesting way to do a recipe book