My news alert brought this to my attention: the winner of World Class Kenya cited some books she used to prepare for the competition and The Ice Book was one of them. I think that's pretty neat. Read the story here. Read more →
On October 12th at 4PM I'll be chatting with Evan Rail, author of The Absinthe Forger at Book Passage in the San Francisco Ferry Building. I really enjoyed the book and its look at the history of absinthe as well as solving a modern mystery of an expert and online... Read more →
The third Lemonade recipe in Jerry Thomas' How to Mix Drinks is identical to that in Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, which came out the previous year. I learned this in Jeanette Hurt's new book The Whiskey Sour. She postulates that both authored cribbed the recipe from the same... Read more →
I solved a little mystery (maybe only mysterious to me): Two versions of the 1919 book The Ideal Bartender by Tom Bullock (the first cocktail book by a Black bartender) were republished in 2001 and 2002 by Howling at the Moon Press, which doesn't exist, and co-authored/introduced by author "DJ... Read more →
Update 2: Now this list is up to 34 books Update 1: Detailed reviews of many of these books in my story for AlcoholProfessor are here. Citrus: A World History A Forager's Guide to Wild Drinks: Ferments, infusions and thirst-quenchers for every season Sicilian Cocktails: Contemporary Island Mixology Flavor Lab... Read more →