The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide
Nonfiction, Food & Drink, Beverages, Bartending, Reference & Language, Reference, Guides & Handbooks
| Author: | Sharon Tyler Herbst | ISBN: | 9780307568427 |
| Publisher: | Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale | Publication: | July 1, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Clarkson Potter | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sharon Tyler Herbst |
| ISBN: | 9780307568427 |
| Publisher: | Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale |
| Publication: | July 1, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Clarkson Potter |
| Language: | English |
What's a Dirty Martini? How do you pronounce Cuarenta Y Tres? Which glass do you use for a Stinger? How did the Margarita get its name?
Answers to these questions and thousands more can be found in The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide**,** a one-stop, user-friendly cocktail guide featuring more than 1,000 drink recipes and 600 definitions for cocktail-related terms.
The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide offers a unique blend of features, including:
• Definitions of over 600 cocktail- and drink-related terms, including liqueurs, types of drinks, cocktail jargon, and the etymology of drinks like the Martini and the Fuzzy Navel, all organized in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format with sound-out phonetics.
• Drink recipes for more than 1,000 cocktails for every season and occasion. Each recipe is complete with a graphic showing the appropriate glass to use.
• Ideas on how to make sure guests have a great time while encouraging responsible drinking.
• Tips on everything from stocking a home bar to choosing the right glassware, plus loads of professional bartending tricks and shortcuts for creating the perfect cocktail.
• Humor through anecdotes, toasts, and quotes from the famous and infamous.
• Four indexes that make finding the listing you want a snap!
Accessible, fun, hip, and written in the Herbsts' inimitable style, The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide deserves a place at every home and professional bar.
What's a Dirty Martini? How do you pronounce Cuarenta Y Tres? Which glass do you use for a Stinger? How did the Margarita get its name?
Answers to these questions and thousands more can be found in The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide**,** a one-stop, user-friendly cocktail guide featuring more than 1,000 drink recipes and 600 definitions for cocktail-related terms.
The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide offers a unique blend of features, including:
• Definitions of over 600 cocktail- and drink-related terms, including liqueurs, types of drinks, cocktail jargon, and the etymology of drinks like the Martini and the Fuzzy Navel, all organized in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format with sound-out phonetics.
• Drink recipes for more than 1,000 cocktails for every season and occasion. Each recipe is complete with a graphic showing the appropriate glass to use.
• Ideas on how to make sure guests have a great time while encouraging responsible drinking.
• Tips on everything from stocking a home bar to choosing the right glassware, plus loads of professional bartending tricks and shortcuts for creating the perfect cocktail.
• Humor through anecdotes, toasts, and quotes from the famous and infamous.
• Four indexes that make finding the listing you want a snap!
Accessible, fun, hip, and written in the Herbsts' inimitable style, The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide deserves a place at every home and professional bar.
