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• Walton, Stuart

This beautifully illustrated guide is an essential reference book for aspiring bartenders, providing recipes for delicious cocktails for every occasion, whether a relaxing drink with family and friends or a more formal cocktail party. Featuring classic cocktails, as well as more recent innovations, this is a highly accessible guide for anyone wishing to create and mix their own drinks.

A useful section on bartending techniques includes guidance on equipment, glasses and garnishes, as well as tricks of the trade such as frosting glasses, shaking cocktails and making decorative fruit twists. Clear step-by-step instructions cover more specialist techniques, such as making flavored syrups and spirits, steeping spirits and flaming sugar. Further advice on how to prepare for a party, plus useful information about alcohol and health--including tips for safe drinking and avoiding hangovers--make this the ultimate guide to creating cocktails and drinks at home.

The recipe section of the book is packed with inspirational step-by-step recipes for all types of cocktails and drinks, including classic combinations from the 1920s jazz age, such as Grand Hotel, Parisian and Presidente; drinks from the 1980s cocktail revival, such as Oasis, Bailey's Comet and Buck's Fizz; and cocktails from today's new bars, including Titanic, Sea Breeze and Cosmopolitan.

This is the complete bartender's guide to creating and mixing 500 classic cocktails and famous mixed drinks, all shown in more than 500 color photographs. With its fascinating drink-related anecdotes, it is the only book any drinks professional, or lover of fine mixes and the great cocktail tradition, will ever need tucked under their bar.