It's out now from Ten Speed ( order on Amazon). is by David Kaplan, Nick Fauchald, and Alex Day. What is a bar without its regulars, after all?ĭeath & Co. It's a small, easy thing to do in a book, but not one I've seen before, and one that completes the portrait of Death & Co. These sections include a pen-and-ink sketch of said regular, the recipe for their preferred drink, and a quick story about them. is that the book profiles several of the bar's regulars. One of the most charming aspects of Death & Co.
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Furthermore, there is instruction for how to go about making up your own cocktails, which makes this book useful for the beginner and experienced home bartender alike. Context is given to every liquor used, why and how to cut garnishes into different shapes, why you might use different shaped glassware to mix drinks, and which shaped glassware to serve them in. Whereas a book like Jim Meehan's PDT Cocktail Book is jam packed with recipes - as Meehan puts it, out of a need to "document, cite, and credit" - Death & Co. Over the past eight years, they've accumulated quite a bit of cocktail knowledge, and near as I can tell, most of it is contained in this book. was among the first of the current wave of serious craft cocktail bars in the country. Death & Co is the most important, influential, and oft-imitated bar to emerge from the contemporary craft cocktail movement. Not just about cocktails - although obviously there is that - but about liquor in general, about owning and running a bar, and about this particular bar.
You will learn a lot from Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails, the new book from the New York City cocktail bar of the same name.