Brooklyn Cocktails

<P><B>Pour yourself a drink and explore the neighborhoods, characters, and stories that Brooklyn has to offer, one cocktail at a time.</B></P><P>Brooklyn has been called many things: a cultural capital, a culinary destination, the most important place on earth if you ask anyone who lives there. This book will not be settling that debate. It will, however, be providing drinks.</P><P>Inside, you''ll find 60 cocktails, one for every neighborhood, history, and local legend the borough has to offer:</P><ul><li><P>Make a dirty martini for DUMBO (Down Under My Big Olive)</P></li><li><P>Toast the Notorious F.I.G.</P></li><li><P>Raise a pizza oil-hued Negroni for "Gimme a Slice" </P></li><li><P>Mix yourself an I''m Not Going to the City (Manhattan), the cocktail for anyone who has ever received the dreaded "come to the city” text on a Friday night.</P></li></ul><P>Whether you are a lifelong resident, a recent transplant still learning to say "baconeggandcheese" as one word, or someone just trying to justify a cost of living lower than Manhattan, this book meets you where you are. Which is Brooklyn. Possibly on a stoop.</P><P>Raise a glass to the borough that does it best.</P>