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How to Booze: Exquisite Cocktails and Unsound Advice

✍️ Kaye, Jordan
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📚 EDITORIAL REVIEW

“Grab this if you love a witty drinking manual and want entertaining cocktail pairings for stressful moments. Home bartenders looking for traditional mixology guides or precise culinary techniques will be disappointed by the cheeky, degenerate advice.

— Editorial Team
🏛 Harper Perennial 📅 2010 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780061963308
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📝 Description: How to Booze: Exquisite Cocktails and Unsound Advice

Offering exquisite cocktails and unsound advice, How to Booze by Jordan Kaye and Marshall Altier pairs the perfect cocktail with unfailingly entertaining advice for all of life s most alcohol-inducing moments. Much more than just a guide to mixology, How to Booze is a hilarious and remarkably prescient, if somewhat degenerate, guide to life or at least that part of life that would be greatly improved in the company of Johnny Walker or Jack Daniels."

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How to Booze offers an entertaining mix of mixology and comic life advice, positioning itself as a humorous guide for casual drink enthusiasts. It suits readers seeking a fun, unpretentious addition to their drinks shelf or a lively gift book. However, it does NOT suit serious mixologists, culinary historians, or readers looking for comprehensive technical technique and precise instructional depth. For those who prefer classic reference guides over satirical advice, this title's focus on irreverent humor over rigorous drink theory may fall short.
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⭐ eatbookfamily.com editorial review Editorial rating 4.5/5
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Grab this if you love a witty drinking manual and want entertaining cocktail pairings for stressful moments. Home bartenders looking for traditional mixology guides or precise culinary techniques will be disappointed by the cheeky, degenerate advice.

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Eatbook Family editorial team

How to Booze offers an entertaining mix of mixology and comic life advice, positioning itself as a humorous guide for casual drink enthusiasts. It suits readers seeking a fun, unpretentious addition to their drinks shelf or a lively gift book. However, it does NOT suit serious mixologists, culinary historians, or readers looking for comprehensive technical technique and precise instructional depth. For those who prefer classic reference guides over satirical advice, this title's focus on irreverent humor over rigorous drink theory may fall short.

❓ Frequently asked questions

Measurements focus on standard cocktail pours and standard bar measures rather than complex baking scales.
The recipes rely on standard spirits and accessible ingredients you can easily grab for an impromptu evening in.

📖 Who should read this

Grab this if you love a witty drinking manual and want entertaining cocktail pairings for stressful moments. Home bartenders looking for traditional mixology guides or precise culinary techniques will be disappointed by the cheeky, degenerate advice.

📜 Historical context

Rooted in the classic lounge tradition of pairing sharp humor with top-shelf spirits, this guide embraces the philosophy that life's most unpredictable moments call for a reliable drink. It focuses purely on the convivial art of mixing up a good time.

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