Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions
From the authors of the best-selling and genre-defining cocktail book Death & Co, Cocktail Codex is a comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks that employs the authorsâ unique âroot cocktailsâ approach to give drink-makers of every level the tools to understand, execute, and improvise both classic and original cocktails.
âThere are only six cocktails.â So say Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan, the visionaries behind the seminal craft cocktail bar Death & Co. In Cocktail Codex, these experts reveal for the first time their surprisingly simple approach to mastering cocktails: the âroot recipes,â six easily identifiable (and memorizable!) templates that encompass all cocktails: the old-fashioned, martini, daiquiri, sidecar, whisky highball, and flip.
Once you understand the hows and whys of each âfamily,â youâll understand why some cocktails work and others donât, when to shake and when to stir, what you can omit and what you can substitute when youâre missing ingredients, why you like the drinks you do, and what sorts of drinks you should turn toâor inventâif you want to try something new.
Hardcover. 320 pages.
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From the authors of the best-selling and genre-defining cocktail book Death & Co, Cocktail Codex is a comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks that employs the authorsâ unique âroot cocktailsâ approach to give drink-makers of every level the tools to understand, execute, and improvise both classic and original cocktails.
âThere are only six cocktails.â So say Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan, the visionaries behind the seminal craft cocktail bar Death & Co. In Cocktail Codex, these experts reveal for the first time their surprisingly simple approach to mastering cocktails: the âroot recipes,â six easily identifiable (and memorizable!) templates that encompass all cocktails: the old-fashioned, martini, daiquiri, sidecar, whisky highball, and flip.
Once you understand the hows and whys of each âfamily,â youâll understand why some cocktails work and others donât, when to shake and when to stir, what you can omit and what you can substitute when youâre missing ingredients, why you like the drinks you do, and what sorts of drinks you should turn toâor inventâif you want to try something new.
Hardcover. 320 pages.
