num_pages: 173
description: 60 recipes for todays modern classics with entertaining backstories from the cocktail revival of the past thirty years by a two-time James Beard Award nominee and New York Times cocktail and spirits writer. No proper drinking library is complete without Robert Simonsons volumes and Modern Classic Cocktails is one of the best yet. Adam Platt New York magazine restaurant critic and author of The Book of EatingOne of the greatest dividends of the revival in cocktail culture that began in the 1990s has been the relentless innovation. More new cocktailsand good oneshave been invented in the past thirty years than during any period since the first golden age of cocktails which lasted from roughly the 1870s until the arrival of Prohibition in 1920 and included the birth of the Martini Manhattan Daiquiri and Tom Collins. Just as that first bar-world zenith produced a half-century of classic recipes before Prohibition the eruption of talent over the past three decades has handily delivered its share of drinks that have found favor with arbiters on both sides of the bar. Among them are the Espresso Martini White Negroni Death Flip Old Cuban Paper Plane Siesta and many more all included here along with each drink's recipe origin story. What elevates a modern cocktail into the echelon of a modern classic ? A host of reasons all delineated by Simonson in these pages. But above all a modern classic cocktail must be popular. People have to order it not just during its initial heyday but for years afterward. Tommys Margarita invented in the 1990s is still beloved and the Porn Star Martini is the most popular cocktail in the United Kingdom twenty years after its creation. This book includes more than sixty easy-to-make drinks that all earned their stripes as modern classics years ago. Sprinkled among them are also a handful of critics' choices potential classics that have the goods to become popular go-to cocktails in the future.
language: English
title: Modern Classic Cocktails: 60+ Stories and Recipes from the New Golden Age in Drinks
publisher: Ten Speed Press