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Cocktails and Mixed Drinks

Nonfiction

Prohibition: Lost Drink Recipes from a 1920s Bootlegger

Matthew Rowley Equal parts history, chemistry and alcohol make a delicious formula for an entertaining read. You don’t need to love drinking to enjoy Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes from a Bootlegger’s Manual (Countryman Press, October 28 2015). The new book from noted whiskey enthusiast and author Matthew Rowley was…
Katie Hires
October 30, 2015
Nonfiction

Edible spring flowers spruce up your punch bowl

Some of Ma Nature’s earliest blooms are also edible, including violets, Johnny jump-ups, pansies and dandelions. You will find a treasure trove of libation inspiration in Punch Bowl & Pitcher Drinks by Jeanne Kelley and Sarah Tenaglia (Clarkson Potter, 2015). Gardens, fields and meadows provide a surprising source of flavors…
Mea Stewart
April 24, 2015
Nonfiction

This spring break, Party Like a President

If nothing else, we here at BookTrib feel bound by the sense of decorum that our devotion to books and literature commands. Therefore, I humbly beg your indulgence while I express the following sentiment: Its SPRING BREAK, baby! Woooo-hooooo!!! PARTY!! PARTY HEARTY, PEOPLE!!! Thanks. I feel better now. Actually, I…
Michael Ruscoe
March 15, 2015
Nonfiction

The nerd’s guide to cocktails

The New Year has dawned. The hangovers have passed (hopefully). Now you are wondering what was in your cousin’s mystery punch and plotting ways to get him banned from every liquor store and wine shop in a 100-mile radius. Armed with a New Year’s resolution to not to be a…
Mea Stewart
January 1, 2015

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