Synopses & Reviews
What to mix and how to mix—the fundamentals of mixology and cocktailian methodology will always be at your fingertips in this pretty, purse-sized guide. Our Pocket Posh® series has over 1.5 million copies in print!
Pocket Posh Cocktails offers an attractive, tote-sized guide to the fundamentals of mixology, along with a comprehensive collection of recipes for classic cocktails from A to Z. John Townsley has spent over 30 years tending bar in New York City. He has served drinks to stars of the silver screen, movie legends, Wall Street bankers, famous designers, rock 'n' rollers, and regular Joes and Janes in a variety of neighborhood haunts in the Big Apple.
Synopsis
No other cocktail guide is packaged like thislovely art, eye-catching embellishments, rounded corners, and elastic band. Pocket Posh® Cocktails delivers the fundamentals of mixing cocktails and the methods for doing so. Although there are thousands of cocktail and mixed drink recipes, there are relatively few which point out the standard templates on which most of these drinks are based. Pocket Posh Cocktails offers the mixology to help you understand ingredients and the methodology to teach you, among other things, whether to shake or stir and why you should do so over ice.
Synopsis
What to mix and how to mix—the fundamentals of mixology and cocktailian methodology will always be at your fingertips in this pretty, purse-sized guide. Our Pocket Posh® series has over 1.5 million copies in print!
Pocket Posh Cocktails offers an attractive, tote-sized guide to the fundamentals of mixology, along with a comprehensive collection of recipes for classic cocktails from A to Z. John Townsley has spent over 30 years tending bar in New York City. He has served drinks to stars of the silver screen, movie legends, Wall Street bankers, famous designers, rock 'n' rollers, and regular Joes and Janes in a variety of neighborhood haunts in the Big Apple.
About the Author
John Townsley has spent over 30 tending bar in New York City. He has served drinks to stars of the silver screen, movie legends, Wall Street bankers, famous designers, rock 'n' rollers, and regular Joes and Janes in a variety of neighborhood haunts in the Big Apple. He's happiest of all when the bar is six deep and he's totally in the weeds. "Once I found a job I that love," he says, "working became a hobby and a passion for me." He's assembled his favorite recipes for this book.