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Wow, another story about The Ice Book, this time from Huffington Post. I love how they made the pictures pop with the framing. Read it here. Read more →

I am featured in this nice Epicurious story about clear ice for the home bar. Read it here. Read more →

I was a guest on the Sporkful podcast talking about ice cubes. "Why Ice Is This Summer’s Hottest Trend" Give it a listen! Read more →

"San Francisco's Camper English invented a home method for making clear ice that's now celebrated around the world" is the dek to this story in the San Jose Mercury News with the headline "‘The Ice Book’ traces a cocktail writer’s obsession with designing perfect, diamond-clear ice". The story is only... Read more →

In Alice Lascelles' latest cocktail column for the Financial Times, she covers the summertime trend of using flowers in cocktails and includes a photo from The Ice Book. Read the story here: It’s cocktail hour – so put a flower in it Read more →

I was interviewed for this terrific story in Vanity Fair that brings together the modern manifestations of clear ice with its history as a luxury item that quickly transforms into an everyday necessity over and over again. I think the writer did a great job with it. Read it here. Read more →

Rob Theakston of DrinkHacker wrote a very nice review of The Ice Book. He concludes: The hallmark of English’s books is his ability to make dense subjects approachable and accessible without careening too hard into academic or jargon-laden territories. This book is no exception. If you’re looking to take cocktail... Read more →

My fellow ice book author Amy Brady wrote an article for Scientific American on the use of ice and its impacts in cocktail programs. I consider it a success that not only did she include The Ice Book in the story, I was able to get the expression "dirty dump"... Read more →