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The Cocktail Edit: Everything You Need to Know About How to Make All the Drinks that Matter
Cocktails should be simple. Acclaimed drinks writer Alice Lascelles knows everything there is to know about making delicious drinks at home with minimal equipment and fuss.
The Cocktail Edit is built around a 'capsule collection' of 12 classic cocktails – each of these is followed by six twists, plus tips and inspiration for creating many more. The book also offers essential advice on getting your home bar set up – and shows how easy it is to make amazing cocktails with just a few basic tools, ingredients and techniques.
It's a guide brimming with trade secrets on everything from choosing the best-value spirits to making cocktails for a party; written in a conversational style, and illustrated with beautiful photography, The Cocktail Edit is practical, opinionated and fun.
The Cocktail Edit is built around a 'capsule collection' of 12 classic cocktails – each of these is followed by six twists, plus tips and inspiration for creating many more. The book also offers essential advice on getting your home bar set up – and shows how easy it is to make amazing cocktails with just a few basic tools, ingredients and techniques.
It's a guide brimming with trade secrets on everything from choosing the best-value spirits to making cocktails for a party; written in a conversational style, and illustrated with beautiful photography, The Cocktail Edit is practical, opinionated and fun.
176 pages, Hardcover
Published October 25, 2022
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December 24, 2023
While this doesn't provide a lot of new info or recipes for more experienced home mixologists, for beginners it's really accessible, has easy to follow recipes, and doesn't require an insane amount of hard to find ingredients or complicated recipes.
Would highly recommend for anyone new to entertaining with cocktails.
Would highly recommend for anyone new to entertaining with cocktails.
September 26, 2024
This is going to sound insane, but...I've just gotten serious about my drinking. What I mean is, I like a great artisan cocktail and I would rather not drink at all than waste my time on a cocktail I don't love. My goal in buying this book was to teach myself how to make a bomb-ass cocktail at home and to educate myself a bit better about the classics.
I bought this book a while ago at a cute little store in Pacifica, CA and it sat on my shelf for a long time. I was inspired to pick it up after I started to watch Cocktail Masters on Netflix. Reading this book at the same time I was watching the show really broadened my horizons. There are so many things I love about this book.
Who do I think this is for? The cocktail *lover* who wants to become a cocktail *maker*. Here's what I've gotten from reading this book:
--A guide to essential spirits to have in my cabinet to be able to make sophisticated cocktails. We're not just talking vodka, gin, rum, and tequila (nobody is making a Long Island Iced Tea). This book told me to grab some Campari, some red vermouth, some Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur, and it even told me what brands to buy.
--A guide to some classic cocktails and the ratios that govern them (4:2:1 will take on new meaning to you after you read this book). I definitely learned the original recipes for the classics and also how some famou drinks (like the sidecar) are variations on the classics)
--The art of making a cocktail. Which ones to shake vs. which ones to stir, the importance of a cold glass, why you reallllllly need to stir it and shake it for a certain amount of time.
Overall, this book felt to me like a big, fat shortcut to figuring how to make artisan cocktails. It makes me feel like a fancy bartender even though, clearly, I am not. It also made me really thankful for the ginormous ice cubes my lower freezer makes (as opposed to the regular sized ice cubes my upper freezer makes). The cocktail gods have smiled upon me and want me to be happy.
Final note: if you love Green Chartreuse, look up the author's recipe for a cocktail called The Last Word. It. Is. Everything.
I bought this book a while ago at a cute little store in Pacifica, CA and it sat on my shelf for a long time. I was inspired to pick it up after I started to watch Cocktail Masters on Netflix. Reading this book at the same time I was watching the show really broadened my horizons. There are so many things I love about this book.
Who do I think this is for? The cocktail *lover* who wants to become a cocktail *maker*. Here's what I've gotten from reading this book:
--A guide to essential spirits to have in my cabinet to be able to make sophisticated cocktails. We're not just talking vodka, gin, rum, and tequila (nobody is making a Long Island Iced Tea). This book told me to grab some Campari, some red vermouth, some Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur, and it even told me what brands to buy.
--A guide to some classic cocktails and the ratios that govern them (4:2:1 will take on new meaning to you after you read this book). I definitely learned the original recipes for the classics and also how some famou drinks (like the sidecar) are variations on the classics)
--The art of making a cocktail. Which ones to shake vs. which ones to stir, the importance of a cold glass, why you reallllllly need to stir it and shake it for a certain amount of time.
Overall, this book felt to me like a big, fat shortcut to figuring how to make artisan cocktails. It makes me feel like a fancy bartender even though, clearly, I am not. It also made me really thankful for the ginormous ice cubes my lower freezer makes (as opposed to the regular sized ice cubes my upper freezer makes). The cocktail gods have smiled upon me and want me to be happy.
Final note: if you love Green Chartreuse, look up the author's recipe for a cocktail called The Last Word. It. Is. Everything.
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