num_pages: 352
description: A narrative history of the craft cocktail renaissance written by a New York Times cocktail writer and one of the foremost experts on the subject.A Proper Drink is the first-ever book to tell the full unflinching story of the contemporary craft cocktail revival. Award-winning writer Robert Simonson interviewed more than 200 key players from around the world and the result is a rollicking (if slightly tipsy) story of the charactersbars bartenders patrons and visionarieswho in the last 25 years have changed the course of modern drink-making. The book also features a curated list of about 40 cocktails25 modern classics plus an additional 15 to 20 rediscovered classics and classic contendersto emerge from the movement.
language: English
title: A Proper Drink: The Untold Story of How a Band of Bartenders Saved the Civilized Drinking World
publisher: Ten Speed Press