Description
From the celebrated Cuban bar Cienfuegos, owned by the co-owner of the award-winning Death & Co., dubbed America's Best Cocktail Bar, comes this spirited collection of 100 recipes that celebrate Cuba's rich cocktail history and culture. Featuring classics as well as modern craft concoctions, Cuban Cocktails offers more than just a gathering of recipes. It captures the tropical elegance and unfiltered energy of old Cuba, brimming with beautiful, evocative images of the drinks and the places where they came to life. Sidebars shed fascinating light on the country's legendary bars and nightclubs and the famous bartenders and entrepreneurs who ran them, while quotes and fun facts give a tantalizing taste of the once-forbidden Caribbean island.
A spirited collection of 100 recipes that celebrate Cuba's rich cocktail history and culture. Brimming with beautiful, evocative images. Also sheds fascinating light on the country's legendary bars and nightclubs.
About the Author
Ravi DeRossi's first venture, the Bourgeois Pig, was a press favourite. Then he co-founded Death & Co. and shortly thereafter Desnuda Cevicheria. Mayahuel, his tequila and mescal bar, won the Best New Cocktail Bar Award at Tales of the Cocktail. Jane Danger began her bartending career at CBGB before moving to Death & Co. She consults on and contributes to cocktail menus, and her work has appeared in New York magazine, Time Out New York, New York Post, New York Times, and elsewhere. Alla Lapushchik assisted with the opening of the Bourgeois Pig while studying at New York University before moving to Mayahuel, Death & Co., Desnuda Cevicheria, and 124 Rabbit Club.
Reviews
*"This handsome compendium is also well timed: since the relaxing of trade and travel restrictions earlier this year, Cuba is having a long-overdue moment. Not that the authors of this book are jumping on a bandwagon-their Cuban-inspired East Village bar Cienfuegos, named after a small island resort town, opened nearly a decade ago. DeRossi, Jane Danger, and Alla Lapushchik are aficionados of Cuban drinks and keen to prove that it's not all rum and tired Ernest Hemingway references. Their drinks celebrate the island's culinary heritage and bring new flavors into the mix (especially in the final chapter, which invites their mixologist friends to share recipes featuring unexpected flavors such as herbal Fernet Branca, absinthe, and Amaretto). But rum is undoubtedly king, showcased here in an array of punches and sours, flips and swizzles, daiquiris, tiki drinks, and warming toddies. The recipes are interspersed with colorful histories of those who built Cuba's venerable drinking culture, from the early distillers and hard-drinking sailors to the American exiles from Prohibition (and, yes, a certain bearded writer). All that's needed now is the Havana Club. VERDICT A stylish and timely collection of recipes that respects Cuba's history yet offers a fresh look at a world opening up." -Library Journal (STARRED review)
*"This handsome compendium is also well timed: since the relaxing of trade and travel restrictions earlier this year, Cuba is having a long-overdue moment. Not that the authors of this book are jumping on a bandwagon-their Cuban-inspired East Village bar Cienfuegos, named after a small island resort town, opened nearly a decade ago. DeRossi, Jane Danger, and Alla Lapushchik are aficionados of Cuban drinks and keen to prove that it's not all rum and tired Ernest Hemingway references. Their drinks celebrate the island's culinary heritage and bring new flavors into the mix (especially in the final chapter, which invites their mixologist friends to share recipes featuring unexpected flavors such as herbal Fernet Branca, absinthe, and Amaretto). But rum is undoubtedly king, showcased here in an array of punches and sours, flips and swizzles, daiquiris, tiki drinks, and warming toddies. The recipes are interspersed with colorful histories of those who built Cuba's venerable drinking culture, from the early distillers and hard-drinking sailors to the American exiles from Prohibition (and, yes, a certain bearded writer). All that's needed now is the Havana Club. VERDICT A stylish and timely collection of recipes that respects Cuba's history yet offers a fresh look at a world opening up." -Library Journal (STARRED review)
Book Information
ISBN 9781454917502
Author Ravi DeRossi
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Sterling
Publisher Union Square & Co.
A spirited collection of 100 recipes that celebrate Cuba's rich cocktail history and culture. Brimming with beautiful, evocative images. Also sheds fascinating light on the country's legendary bars and nightclubs.
About the Author
Ravi DeRossi's first venture, the Bourgeois Pig, was a press favourite. Then he co-founded Death & Co. and shortly thereafter Desnuda Cevicheria. Mayahuel, his tequila and mescal bar, won the Best New Cocktail Bar Award at Tales of the Cocktail. Jane Danger began her bartending career at CBGB before moving to Death & Co. She consults on and contributes to cocktail menus, and her work has appeared in New York magazine, Time Out New York, New York Post, New York Times, and elsewhere. Alla Lapushchik assisted with the opening of the Bourgeois Pig while studying at New York University before moving to Mayahuel, Death & Co., Desnuda Cevicheria, and 124 Rabbit Club.
Reviews
*"This handsome compendium is also well timed: since the relaxing of trade and travel restrictions earlier this year, Cuba is having a long-overdue moment. Not that the authors of this book are jumping on a bandwagon-their Cuban-inspired East Village bar Cienfuegos, named after a small island resort town, opened nearly a decade ago. DeRossi, Jane Danger, and Alla Lapushchik are aficionados of Cuban drinks and keen to prove that it's not all rum and tired Ernest Hemingway references. Their drinks celebrate the island's culinary heritage and bring new flavors into the mix (especially in the final chapter, which invites their mixologist friends to share recipes featuring unexpected flavors such as herbal Fernet Branca, absinthe, and Amaretto). But rum is undoubtedly king, showcased here in an array of punches and sours, flips and swizzles, daiquiris, tiki drinks, and warming toddies. The recipes are interspersed with colorful histories of those who built Cuba's venerable drinking culture, from the early distillers and hard-drinking sailors to the American exiles from Prohibition (and, yes, a certain bearded writer). All that's needed now is the Havana Club. VERDICT A stylish and timely collection of recipes that respects Cuba's history yet offers a fresh look at a world opening up." -Library Journal (STARRED review)
*"This handsome compendium is also well timed: since the relaxing of trade and travel restrictions earlier this year, Cuba is having a long-overdue moment. Not that the authors of this book are jumping on a bandwagon-their Cuban-inspired East Village bar Cienfuegos, named after a small island resort town, opened nearly a decade ago. DeRossi, Jane Danger, and Alla Lapushchik are aficionados of Cuban drinks and keen to prove that it's not all rum and tired Ernest Hemingway references. Their drinks celebrate the island's culinary heritage and bring new flavors into the mix (especially in the final chapter, which invites their mixologist friends to share recipes featuring unexpected flavors such as herbal Fernet Branca, absinthe, and Amaretto). But rum is undoubtedly king, showcased here in an array of punches and sours, flips and swizzles, daiquiris, tiki drinks, and warming toddies. The recipes are interspersed with colorful histories of those who built Cuba's venerable drinking culture, from the early distillers and hard-drinking sailors to the American exiles from Prohibition (and, yes, a certain bearded writer). All that's needed now is the Havana Club. VERDICT A stylish and timely collection of recipes that respects Cuba's history yet offers a fresh look at a world opening up." -Library Journal (STARRED review)
Book Information
ISBN 9781454917502
Author Ravi DeRossi
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Sterling
Publisher Union Square & Co.
