num_pages: 320
description: From the authors of the bestselling and genre-defining cocktail book Death &amp; Co  Cocktail Codex is a comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks that employs the authors unique root cocktails approach to give drink-makers of every level the tools to understand execute and improvise both classic and original cocktails.JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER  WINNER OF THE TALES OF THE COCKTAIL SPIRITED AWARD FOR BEST NEW COCKTAIL OR BARTENDING BOOK  NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNEThere are only six cocktails. So say Alex Day Nick Fauchald and David Kaplan the visionaries behind the seminal craft cocktail bar Death &amp; Co. In Cocktail Codex  these experts reveal for the first time their surprisingly simple approach to mastering the root recipes six easily identifiable (and memorizable!) templates that encompass all the old-fashioned martini daiquiri sidecar whisky highball and flip. Once you understand the hows and whys of each family you'll understand why some cocktails work and others don't when to shake and when to stir what you can omit and what you can substitute when you're missing ingredients why you like the drinks you do and what sorts of drinks you should turn toor inventif you want to try something new. Praise for Cocktail Codex Learn the template and any cocktail you can think of is within reach.  Food &amp; WineToo bad all college textbooks werent this much fun.  Garden &amp; GunA must for amateur and pro mixologists alike.  Chicago Tribune If Dora the Explorer turned twenty-one split herself into three people and decided to write the Magna Carta of booze books this would be the result. And unlike every other book youll read this year Cocktail Codex is packed with actual knowledge you can use in the real world. Please please can Cinema Codex be next? Steven Soderbergh filmmaker
language: English
title: Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions [A Cocktail Recipe Book]
publisher: Ten Speed Press