Friends don't let friends mix drinks badly, and Arnold, the man behind Manhattan's fabled Booker and Dax bar, is your friend. More than a collection of boozy recipes - though there are plenty of those - Arnold's first book is a crash course in, and celebration of, mixed drink chemistry. He covers everything from how the size and source of an ice cube affects a drink's taste to colonial America's affinity for cocktails finished with a red-hot poker. The amount of material would be overwhelming without Arnold's conversational tone and egalitarian approach: Don't have a customized blowtorch or clarified lemon juice? No problem! He suggests workarounds to suit any aspiring mixology master.
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