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- ISBN 9780712354530
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2023
- Publisher: British Library Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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An early description of a cocktail as ‘a mix of alcoholic drinks
with flavouring ingredients’ does nothing to convey the alchemy
and speak-easy glamour of these elaborate drinks. The cocktail’s humble beginnings as a medicinal tonic through the inclusion of botanicals into distilled spirits such as gin and whiskey, accelerates with the ingenuity of bartenders who created the ‘classics’ – the Martini, Manhattan and Old Fashioned – in the nineteenth-century, and in the decadence of the Jazz Age and Roaring Twenties.
This book explores the journey that cocktails have made, via China and the Middle East, the Americas and the UK, to arrive at the bespoke menus of today’s stylish clubs and bars, complete with descriptions of the myriad ingredients, glassware and paraphernalia that the mixologist has at their disposal.
Jane Peyton is an award-winning writer and alcoholic drinks expert. She is the UK’s first accredited Pommelier (cider sommelier) and Principal of the School of Booze. Jane is also the author of a number of books including two previous books in this series: The Philosophy of Gin (May 2020) and The Philosophy of Beer (2021).
