Atomic Cocktails: Mixed Drinks for Modern Times

by Gideon Bosker, Kirsten Pierce, Reed Darmon, et al.

Book Overview

From a glittering Stardust Martini to a Cognac Zoom, Atomic Cocktails blasts into the ether with more than 50 Space Age cocktails. Tonic to tequila, mood music to maraschino cherries, this book's for everyone who isn't sure what goes into a Gimlet and thinks Angostura is a kind of sweater. It reveals the secrets that ardent swingers have spent years discovering, including the fundamentals of mixology and how to master all the classics. The repertoire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811819264
• ISBN13: 9780811819268
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Head For The Lounge

Atomic Cocktails is a great book if you are interested in mixing up some potent potables, but you can find a thousand other books that give you the same information. What separates this book from the pack is the retro-packaging. Done up in a kitschy, campy style, the book harkens back to the lounge lizard days of the 50's & 60's. The book honors the time when drinking a martini was the height of cool and does the fine art of mixing drinks proud.

Nifty retro look at the elixir of life.

This was a fun read. Quick too. I found some new drink recipes, and some nostalgia for a time I am too young to remember. If anything, the book was too short as I could have done with a few more drinks, and some more nostalgia. At least some Cole Porter or Noel Coward. Rick, Nora. Somebody. Still, it was fun while it lasted, and clearly understood and conveyed the romance, grace, and promise of a Martini.

Funny and a great introduction to the new swank culture

The retro-ish styling of the book introduces the once stylish world of mixed cocktail. Even cooler was the fact that the book also included a few non-alcoholic drinks for my dry buds. It not only is a good resource, it makes a great coffee table book as well.

An extreemly good introduction to cocktail culture

Atomic Cocktails is nicely designed and serves a novice very well. The pictures and drinks included are pure 50's, stylish and fun. The recipes presented are detailed and easy to duplicate at home. Contained in the back of the book is a glossary of liquors telling which have a better taste at better prices. All in all a very good book one that will spur the intrests of beginers. I wish, however, that it had given more recipes.