The Philosophy of Cocktails

by Jane Peyton

An early description of a cocktail as 'a mix of alcoholic drinks with flavoring ingredients' does nothing to convey the alchemy and speakeasy glamour of these elaborate drinks.

The cocktail's humble beginnings as a medicinal tonic through the inclusion of botanicals into distilled spirits such as gin and whiskey, accelerates with the ingenuity of bartenders who created the 'classics' - the Martini, Manhattan and Old Fashioned - in the nineteenth-century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712354530
• ISBN13: 9780712354530
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.1"