Cocktails Illustrated

<b>Take a master class in bartending with this luxe cocktail cookbook featuring 400+ recipes covering 15 essential categories!<br> <br><i>Cook’s Illustrated</i> experts share all the hallmark techniques, formulas, science, and lore behind your favorite spirited and nonalcoholic libations.</b><br><br>Unleash your inner bartender with a demystifying dive into the world of classic and contemporary cocktail making. <i>Cocktails Illustrated</i> is that rare book: coffee-table gorgeous with hundreds of photographs and illustrations; comprehensive, instructive, and practical; and as fun and playful as a great cocktail should be. Organized around categories including martinis, Manhattans, highballs, sours, flips, tropical, and more, it's the ultimate "how-to" cocktail cookbook.<br><br><ul><li><b>Shake up your repertoire: </b>Hundreds of creative kitchen-tested cocktails (and a few of our favorite bar snacks) and ways to customize them based on your preferences, from spirit-forward drinks to zero-proof cocktails.</li><li><b>Distill professional secrets:</b> Techniques, including aging and clarifying cocktails and fat-washing spirits, are made accessible through clear, engaging explanations and how-to photography. </li><li><b>Sip on some science:</b> Learn from the <i>Cook’s Illustrated</i> experts, including why glassware shape matters, the chemistry of proper cocktail dilution, and when and how to use ingredients like tinctures or flamed citrus to enhance flavors.</li><li><b>Belly up to the bar:</b> Extensive introduction pours out no-nonsense advice on what bottles, tools, and glassware you really need, plus clearly teaches methods including shaking, swizzling, muddling, citrus juicing, ice making, and more.</li><li><b>Peruse the backbar:</b> Bonus section elevates cocktails with homemade infused liqueurs, bitters and tinctures, syrups and shrubs, rim salts and sugars, and garnishes.</li></ul><br>No matter your skill or knowledge level, this beautiful deep dive into cocktails from <i>Cook's Illustrated</i> and America's Test Kitchen is your new go-to guide.