Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions

The visionaries behind the seminal craft cocktail bar Death & Co, Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan, claim that "there are only six cocktails" in their comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks, Cocktail Codex. This JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER and WINNER OF THE TALES OF THE COCKTAIL SPIRITED AWARD® FOR BEST NEW COCKTAIL OR BARTENDING BOOK, named one of the BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE, reveals the authors' unique "root cocktails" approach to give drink-makers of every level the tools to understand, execute, and improvise both classic and original cocktails.

From the authors of the bestselling and genre-defining cocktail book Death & Co, Cocktail Codex employs a surprisingly simple approach to mastering cocktails: the "root recipes," six easily identifiable (and memorizable!) templates that encompass all cocktails - the old-fashioned, martini, daiquiri, sidecar, whisky highball, and flip. Once you understand the hows and whys of each "family," you'll comprehend why some cocktails work and others don't, when to shake and when to stir, what you can omit and what you can substitute when you're missing ingredients, why you like the drinks you do, and what sorts of drinks you should turn to—or invent—if you want to try something new.

As stated by Food & Wine, "Learn the template, and any cocktail you can think of is within reach." Garden & Gun praises the book, saying "Too bad all college textbooks weren't this much fun," while the Chicago Tribune deems it "A must for amateur and pro mixologists alike." Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh goes even further, commenting, "If Dora the Explorer turned twenty-one, split herself into three people, and decided to write the Magna Carta of booze books, this would be the result. And, unlike every other book you'll read this year, Cocktail Codex is packed with actual knowledge you can use in the real world. Please, please, can Cinema Codex be next?"

In conclusion, Cocktail Codex, the comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks from the authors of the bestselling and genre-defining cocktail book Death & Co, employs the authors' unique "root cocktails" approach to give drink-makers of every level the tools to understand, execute, and improvise both classic and original cocktails. This JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER and WINNER OF THE TALES OF THE COCKTAIL SPIRITED AWARD® FOR BEST NEW COCKTAIL OR BARTENDING BOOK, named one of the BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE, is a must-read for amateur and pro mixologists alike.

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