Cocktails: Modern Favorites to Make at Home

by Williams Sonoma

Classic cocktails get a modern update with an infusion of fresh and seasonal ingredients. With an inspired mix of contemporary and traditional cocktails, and whether to serve them shaken or stirred, on the rocks or straight up, Cocktails offers a flavorful range of spirited beverage options.

Cocktails features 54 diverse recipes of contemporary cocktail classics with tips on how to stock a bar, garnishes, ice, glassware, hosting a cocktail party. Chapters Gin, Whiskey & Bourbon, Tequila, Vodka, Rum, Frozen, Basic Cocktails and Bar Snacks.

Beautifully photographed, this book also covers all the cocktail-making basics, from how to stock a bar, infusions, and garnishes, to serving guidelines, glassware, and hosting a cocktail party. In this compact yet comprehensive book from Williams Sonoma, you’ll find a recipe for any occasion.

In Cocktails , you’ll find recipes for Pineapple Orange Gin Rickey, Bee’s Knees, Elderflower Rose Collins, Maple Sazerac, Blackberry Lemonade Whiskey Sour, Old Fashioned with Lemon, Orange and Vanilla, Coconut Cream and Lime Margarita, Ancho Reyes and Cucumber, Grapefruit Rosemary Moscow Mule, Peppermint White Russian, Gingerbread Dark & Stormy, Mango Mai Tai, Frozen Hard Pink Lemonade, Lemon Raspberry Sorbet Prosecco Float, Manhattan, Cosmo, Moscow Mule, Parmesan Twists, Fried Pickles, Devils on Horseback, and many more!

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Beverages

104 pages, Hardcover

Published May 8, 2018

About the author

In 1947 Chuck Williams arrived in Sonoma, CA with the idea of building homes—first as a contractor, later as the owner of a hardware shop and finally as the founder of the first Williams-Sonoma store for cooks. Half a century later that small cookware shop has evolved into a multi-billion dollar retailing leader whose products encompass every room in the home.

Reviews

[Marijka]

This book is good for what it is, at home bartending. It does have some editing mistakes and some basic principles for making drinks are incorrect. However for the average drinker you probably wouldn’t noticed that the gin gets bruised when shaken, as listed in their dry martini, or that the bourbon also gets bruised when shaken. Otherwise it has some interesting recipe ideas.

[Beth Polebaum]

Good for the novice!

[Isaac]

Format for Amazon Kindle phone app is a weird layout, but not too hard to still read.