Kategoria BISAC: Cooking >> Beverages - Alcoholic - Bartending & Cocktails

With more than 100 new recipes for cocktails, mixed drinks, and nonalcoholic beverages, this revised edition of Anthony Dias Blue's classic guide fills us in on what we need to know:

• How to stock a bar, listing alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages by probable frequency of use.
• Bar and cocktail definitions -- learn the difference between a julep and a smash, a toddy and a flip.
• Calorie charts, mixology tips, and illustrated descriptions of glasses.

Organized by spirit, each chapter is introduced by an accessible and eloquent...

The Essential Bartending Crash Course

Do you know how to set up a full bar for that party you're having? How much vermouth to use when your first guest requests a "dry martini on the rocks?" How to measure out a shot of alcohol using the three-count method?

You'll find the answers to all of these questions and much more in this indispensable guide. Rather than teaching you recipes for drinks you've never heard of and will never have to make, the authors focus on the fundamentals of bartending--using the tools, learning the terminology and drink mnemonics, and...

Bartending is an exciting and very lucrative career. Did you know that an average bartender can earn $100-$400 a night, in tips alone? Bartending is one of the fastest legal ways to make money, and is fun as well You can make lots of new friends, work full or part time, pay off bills, put yourself through school, or buy a new car. Don't know much about liquor? Don't worry Most people know only about four drinks (two of which are beers) Author and experienced bartender Chandler's approach is easy to understand, even for someone with little or no...

The cocktail is as old as the nation that invented it, yet until this entertaining and authoritative account, its story had never been fully told. William Grimes traces the evolution of American drink from the anything-goes concoctions of the Colonial era to the frozen margarita, spiking his meticulously researched narrative with arresting details, odd facts, and colorful figures.

The book includes about one hundred recipes--half of them new for this edition--for both classics and innovations.

• the safest, most effective way to follow a low-carb lifestyle in social circles
• how the kind of alcohol you ingest affects your brain and your body
• how to drink responsibly...

Party or relax with some favorites.

At a bar, relaxing at home or at a party, enjoy this spillproof, quick-and-easy modern drink guide.