Not every revolution requires an insurrection, and not every Renaissance begins in salons, galleries or cloistered chambers.
To that end, The Cocktail Chronicles has you covered.".
Life is complicated a good drink doesn\'t have to be.
The Cocktail Chronicles believes cocktails should be fun: it doesn t demand the purchase of a new product for every recipe or require hours spent preparing a single ingredient -- that is a sure way to suck the joy right out of it.
This collection of expertly curated recipes represent a photo album of sorts snapshots of people encountered over the years, with some close friends and family members depicted alongside a few dimly remembered strangers.
Instead, The Cocktail Chronicles is a collection of approachable, and easily replicable drinks that all share the same thing: a common deliciousness and a role -- both big and small -- in the ongoing and thriving Cocktail renaissance.
The Cocktail Chronicles is not a lab manual for taking the Cocktail experience to a molecular level; nor is it an historical monograph tracing the details of our forebears as they developed and mixed the drinks we enjoy today.
From Paul Clarke, the 2014 Best Cocktail & Spirits Writer and founder of the groundbreaking spirits blog, The Cocktail Chronicles, comes an approachable guide to the Cocktail Renaissance thus far and as the name implies a chronicle of the cocktails that have come along the way.
However, as fascinating as today s artisan-driven or tech-savvy craft-Cocktail bars can be, there s also a need for Cocktail comfort food for exciting drinks that have the benefit of being delicious, and that can be easily prepared by non-professionals.
Taking cues from a wider culinary movement that s been building steam for decades, craft-Cocktail bars (and the bartenders and writers who inhabit them) are digging in the depths of the drink s rich history and apply these fresh-taught lessons to new drinks, appropriating techniques and skills acquired everywhere from centuries-old handbooks.
Today the Cocktail is celebrated at week-long conferences and festivals that draw thousands.
The Cocktail seemed an unlikely candidate to start either a revolution or a renaissance, but somehow over the past decade, it has managed to become the center of both.
Not every revolution requires an insurrection, and not every Renaissance begins in salons, galleries or cloistered chambers
