num_pages: 224
description: MIXOLOGY FOR THE MASSESFrom an original voice of the cocktail renaissance, The Cocktail Chronicles is an enlightening tour of today’s flourishing cocktail landscape with 200+ recipes for rediscovered classics, enduring standards, and contemporary concoctions.The cocktail seemed an unlikely candidate to start either a revolution or a renaissance, but somehow over the past decade it has managed to become the center of both. After being off the radar for half a century, the crafted cocktail is now celebrated everywhere from the corner bar to week-long festivals that draw thousands. As fascinating as today’s artisan-driven or tech-savvy craft-cocktail bars can be, there’s also a need for cocktail comfort food—exciting drinks easily prepared by non-professionals that have the benefit of being delicious.Written by Paul Clarke, the executive editor of Imbibe, with a foreword by Jim Meehan, The Cocktail Chronicles is an enlightening field guide to the cocktail renaissance. It’s not a lab manual for taking the cocktail experience to a molecular level; nor is it an historical thesis tracing the forebears who mixed the drinks we enjoy today. Instead, The Cocktail Chronicles is mixology for the masses. It’s a collection of approachable and easily replicable drinks that allshare the same thing: a common deliciousness and a key role—fully explained in Clarke’s engaging manner—in the ongoing and thriving cocktail renaissance.Broken into five chapters, The Cocktail Chronicles is a fascinating reference that’s never overwhelming and always welcoming. Chapter One: Notes From a Renaissance in Progress recounts from the ground floor the early days of the renaissance while explaining the new basics of technique and glassware; Chapter Two: Not Forgotten covers familiar classics and back-from-the dead obscurities; Chapter Three: Muses and Bridges introduces five enduring classics and the drinks they’ve inspired; Chapter Four: Staying Power puts us in the present with the contemporary cocktails that may be built to last. And, with the ultimate goal of usability first and foremost, Chapter Five: Bottles, Tools, and Tips offers expert instruction on how to stock a liquorcabinet, find the best tools, and further pursue the path of cocktail righteousness.Paul Clarke has been exploring—and making sense of—fine spirits, creative cocktails, classic mixology and the overall culture of drinking since he launched his ground-breaking blog, The Cocktail Chronicles, in 2005. He has since written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many publications and websites. In 2011, he was included on Imbibe’s list of “People Who Have Changed the Way We Drink.” During a busy past year, Clarke won the 2014 Tales of Cocktail Spirited Award for Best Writer about Spirits and Cocktails and the Bert Greene Award for Culinary Writing about Beverages from the IACP.Informative, engaging, and bound by Clarke’s belief that cocktails should be fun, The Cocktail Chronicles celebrates the breadth of the cocktail renaissance and it’s continuing revolution without making things overly complex or precious. Life’s too complicated; thanks to The Cocktail Chronicles, a good drink doesn’t need to be.
language: English
title: The Cocktail Chronicles: Navigating the Cocktail Renaissance with Jigger, Shaker & Glass
publisher: Spring House Press