Tropical Standard: Cocktail Techniques & Reinvented Recipes

Transforming tropical drinks with powerful techniques from the modernist bar

Publisher Marketing: This book is an absolute gem! It's a treasure trove of history along with classic and completely new techniques that can't help but make you smile as you work your way through. A mistakenly overlooked cocktail category finally gets its due.--Wylie Dufresne, James Beard Award-winning chef and cookbook author Review Quotes : Tropical Standard surveys the tropical drinks canon with the rigor and joy of jazz, offering ingenious original recipes and riffs on historic standards that stay true to the wisdom of their mixographers while adding Garret Richard's melodious innovations and Ben Schaffer's smooth phrasing. This book will be a revelation for rum lovers and readers seeking to modernize their mixing practices.--Jim Meehan, author of Meehan's Bartender Manual and The PDT Cocktail Book Review Quotes : Tropical Standard tracks the evolution of cocktails that evoke the warm parts of the world. Each meticulously detailed recipe represents the creative DNA of thousands of bartenders over more than a century. It's a dazzling work that will give you new powers, whether warm sunny days are outside your door or only in your mind.--Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of the Brooklyn Brewery and editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer Review Quotes : The perfect match of word-smith with cocktail-smith. Garret Richard's recipes are brilliant in ingredient and technique, and Ben Schaffer provides provenance with wit and authority. The book could be intimidating except for the hop-on, hop-off format that allows the reader to take elements as needed, digest them, and return for more.--Dale DeGroff, author of The New Craft of the Cocktail and two-time James Beard Award winner Review Quotes : Honoring the past while forging the future of tropical drinks, Tropical Standard offers new techniques, new flavors, and new recipes that will stimulate the creativity of every professional or home bartender, whether they skew tropical or traditional. Tropical Standard is anything but standard.--Jeff "Beachbum" Berry, author of Sippin' Safari and Potions of the Caribbean Brief Description : Transforming tropical drinks with powerful techniques from the modernist bar. Publisher Marketing :

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 288 | Publication Date: 2023-05-16