Alia Akkam is a writer who covers drink, design, travel and food. She is the author of Behind the Bar: Gin and Behind the Bar: 50 Cocktails from the World’s Most Iconic Hotels (Hardie Grant UK) and her work has appeared in SevenFifty Daily/Beverage Media, Architecturaldigest.com, Hospitality Design and ICON. A native New Yorker, Alia now calls Budapest home.

This Secret Roving Recipe Book Is the Ultimate Boomerang
For 15 years, it's been passed between bartenders and across continents, becoming a living record of modern drink-making.
- story: Alia Akkam
- illustration: Don Caminos