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How to Booze: Exquisite Cocktails and Unsound Advice
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There is a perfect drink for every situation. So what should you drink tonight? It depends . . .
Are you stalking your ex? Try a pisco sour.
Drowning out the ticking of your biological clock? A bee’s knees will do.
Spoiling for a vicious brawl with your dearest loved ones? A tipperary helps you get there.
Sinking into debauchery underneath the mistletoe at your boss’s holiday party? A presbyterian, what else?
How to Booze has all the answers on what to drink when. Armed with nearly one hundred iconic recipes, useful facts on technique and ingredients, and more than enough advice to get you into trouble, you will now know just the right drink for the occasion—and how to prepare it like a professional.
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A fine work!
I love this book. It brings me great joy every time I pick it up and read a section or two. So much so that I am posting my first amazon review ever. My favorite part: “Stalking your ex.” The first, oh, ten times I read that chapter I laughed so hard that tears streamed down my face. My roommate and I read portions of this book aloud to one another, like bedtime stories, only different. I highly recommend it, also as a gift. I got one for my Mom for a late Mother’s Day present (OK, I know that’s ridiculous, but she liked it! She likes to drink, too, though, so, yeah, take that into consideration.) All in all, the book’s an absolute steal at under $10!
This book may be dangerous for your liver.
I love this book. I love the bawdy anecdotes, the great classic recipes, and information on liquors, cordials, bitters, etc. Mr Kaye and Mr Altier have transformed this 32 year old lady into a dame that drinks like an 85 year old man. My husband and I read this aloud while drinking Sidecars with our new favorite bar staple, Benedictine.
With all the ridiculously specific scenarios for each cocktail (Drinking with people you despise, Realizing your kid is dumb, etc) perhaps they should start a liquor-related advice column….How about a suggestion for drinking to forget the recession, fellas?
put a bottle of Chartreuse on your shopping list
This one went with me everywhere until I finished it – in my pocketbook, to dismissal time at the elementary school, along for the ride any time my husband was driving, and most importantly, to the liquor store to buy new bottles of dark rum, gin, bitters, maraschino liqueur, and absinthe (I already had the Lillet Blanc and the elderflower liqueur).
Now we live in a heaven of Friday afternoon cocktails, interesting, complex, delicious things like the rum daisy, the Sazerac, and the Perfect Manhattan. And while we drink them, I read aloud from this extremely funny book.
The authors – a bartender and a lawyer, and if that doesn’t sound like the setup for a ribald joke I do not know what does – conjure the perfect situations for drinking their favorite cocktails. Revenge adultery? The French 75 (gin, lemon juice, champagne, mmm). Threesome? The Negroni (to which I say HEY! That’s MY cocktail, and I am NOT that kind of girl). Looking for a fight? Start drinking Bobby Burns cocktails after work and by seven pm you will be bloody and grinning.
Offensive, oh yes. Marvelously so. But so inspiring, to wit:
Your Neighborhood Librarian’s Nightmare in Pink
2 measures Hendricks gin
1/2 measure Lillet Blanc
splash Campari
Shake vigorously over ice, strain into a cocktail glass.
Variation: The Daydream in Pink: same cocktail, half and half with grapefruit juice.