Books for the curious drinker
Essential writing on cocktails, spirits, bars, and the people who made them.
The collection
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Brown, Jared McDaniel and Miller, Anistatia Renard
Two Harrys, two uncertain centuries. Cocktail historians Miller and Brown reveal the never-before-told stories of Harry Johnson and Harry Craddock — men whose lives were shaped by world-changing events. Includes tribute recipes by top mixologists and walking tours of their New York and London haunts.
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Brown, Jared M. and Miller, Anistatia R.
Nine years on from their first history of Cuban rum, Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown return with the fruits of a deep dive through libraries, archives, and databases. Their findings reveal how Spanish, French, British, and Dutch influences pushed this seductive spirit ahead of its Caribbean rivals.
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Miller, Anistatia R and Brown, Jared M and Lascelles, Alice
An entirely new history of gin from award-winning drinks historians Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller, shattering the myth of Dutch origins and tracing the spirit's German antecedents and definitively English roots. The first book to reproduce the early recipes verbatim — heavily footnoted, so readers can argue back.
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Maeda, Yonekichi and Otani, Kagumi and Arakawa, Eiji
Yonekichi Maeda's 1923 volume is regarded as the first systematic guide to Japanese cocktails, written as Western-style bartending took hold in Japan. Thirty of its drinks resurfaced seven years later in the landmark Savoy Cocktail Book — a fascinating glimpse of a profession defining itself.
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Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown
Mystery solved. Written in code in 1638 to guard the Worshipful Company of Distillers' trade secrets, The Distiller of London has been deciphered by award-winning drinks historians Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown — revealing how distilling turned from medicine into social pleasure in seventeenth-century England.
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