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Subject: Re: Christams gift for my bartender friend
From: Natrone
Posted: Tue Nov 30. 2004, 08:23 UTC
Followup to: "Christams gift for my bartender friend"  by c78shake  (Tue Nov 30. 2004, 05:16 UTC)
One of the best books I've come across in the last year is Gary Regan's "The 
Joy of Mixology".  The recipes are only about a third of the book, that isn't 
even the reason to buy the book.  Gary has worked as a bartender for some 25 
years around NYC and has a lot of good advice about the trade in general.  He 
also goes into a lot of the history of cocktails, discusses ingredients and a 
lot of other useful knowledge.  The recipe section isn't very big (only about 
300 drinks) but for many of them there is a paragraph or more discussing that 
drink in detail, maybe a tip about how to give it that extra "something".

There may be better books out there but I really took a lot out of this one.  
I think it would be much better than simply another recipe book (which most 
tenders don't really need after they've been working for a while).  


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