Mail on Sunday, January 2004
"Aptly described as the Larousse Gastronomique of the bartender's trade...a lavish bible of every cocktail imaginable."
Independent Magazine,, October 2003
"Spectacularly comprehensive"
Daily Telegraph, December 2003
"The best guide yet for the amateur or professional mixologist."
Book Description
Everything you need to know to make 500 of the world's best drinks and host legendary cocktail parties; for the home bar enthusiast and professional bartenders alike.
Imagine the book that Delia Smith, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay might have written had they collaborated on drinks. The Craft of The Cocktail is the most informative and enetertaining drinks book ever written and destined to become a classic of our time.
From the Publisher
Written by Dale De Groff, the world's greatest living bartender and the man responsible for the global resurgence in cockatil culture. The Craft of the Cocktail is the first real cookbook for drinks.
From the Author
Cocktail Culture has exploded around the world in recent years. The Craft of the Cocktail will give amateurs and professionals alike the confidence to make great drinks anywhere.
From the Inside Flap
Dale DeGroff is the world's leading authority on bartending, and The Craft of the COcktail is a Larousse Gastronomique of the bartender's trade; an essential for anyone wanting to make great drinks and host legendary cocktail parties.
From the Back Cover
This is the most informative and entertaining drinks book ever written destined to be a classic of our time. The fundementals, the history, the anecdotes, the methods, the passion - everything you will ever want or need to know about cocktails is inside.
About the Author
Dale DeGroff started his career at the Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles in the 1970s. In 1987 he was invited to set up the bar in the now legendary Rainbow Rooms in New York where he stayed for 12 years. It was during this time that the modern revival in cocktail culture began, first in New York and now on an even larger scale in London and the rest of the UK.
Excerpted from The Craft of the Cocktail: UK Edition by Dale DeGroff. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
I learned about cocktails in much the same way I learned to tend bar. Certainly through reserach, but mainly through experience. My fellow bartenders taught me how to treat people, my customers taught me about life and, most important my mentor, the great restaurateur Joe Baum, taught me how little I knew. Joe sparked my curiousity to find out what makes a great cocktail.
