The Best Drink Books of Spring and Summer 2017
From an ode to the Bloody Mary to a substantive guide to rosé to a recipe book from one of Australia's most important bars, here are the best new drink…
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Holiday Drinking Like It’s 1951
1951's The Holiday Drink Book has a few lessons still to be gleaned from it, even in 2016. Drew Lazor on the recipes and more-the-merrier cultural commentary contained in this…
- story: Drew Lazor
- illustration: Liz Noftle
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SPRITZ Across America
Join PUNCH Editor in Chief Talia Baiocchi, and former Deputy Editor, Leslie Pariseau, as they take their new book, Spritz, and the Italian ritual of aperitivo, on tour.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Dylan + Jeni
The Best Drink Books of Spring/Summer 2016
From the bar book from tiki icon Smuggler's Cove to two odes to aperitivo hour, these are the best new drink books hitting shelves this season.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Mr. Boston Must Not Die
Once ubiquitous on every bar shelf, the Mr. Boston Official Bartender's Guide has gone through a dark age and a partial renaissance. But with sleek, new cocktail book competitors published…
- story: Wayne Curtis
- photo: Tristan Stephenson
The Cocktail Book Business Continues to Boom
It was the early 1990s and I'd finagled a bartending gig in New Orleans under something close to false pretenses (my experience was questionable). And before me, an ultra-tan, blond…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
Is the Era of the Bar Manual Over?
In the modern-day search for cocktail recipes, what is lost with the immediacy of an internet search? Andrew Amelinckx pages through the 150-year history of the bar book to recall…
- story: Andrew Amelinckx
- photo: Cocktail Kingdom
