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Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide

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While not containing the hippest, up-to-the-moment drinks, this book is a compendium of a lot of the more traditional tropical drinks such as the zombie, the fogcutter, and the scorpion. Trader Vic himself often has a few words about the drinks, and a good section on his bartending philosophy. Well worth going through the trouble of trying to find.

Fantastic bar guide, covering all standard, and tropical drinks. Learn how to make drinks that taste great, and work great! One note, various editions exit, older ones do not containt the recipe for the famous Mai Tai, newer ones do not give the TRUE recipe, but rather say "use Trader Vic's Mai Tai Mix" (similar for other drinks). TO get all recipes, with BASIC ingred. I suggest buying multiple editions of this text. Learn how to make Hot Buttered Rum Batter, Mai Tai's, Navy Grog, the REAL way!

Great Reading, Great experimenting, Great drinks....

A Must for the hobby bar tender!

Trader Vics cocktail book is a important collection for any serious bartender, its an era, a school of thought that must be remebered and no one tells it better that Vic himself. The book contains humourous stories and tips. The downside to it is that none of the ingredients are official, but understanably were aware that no one tells their secrets. very well written, and surely a book that you can compare to and rreview several times over. A must.....

I found a copy of this book in a box in the garage. This is THE book for mixing a wide range of drinks.

I have to guard my copy to keep friends and family from walking off with it. If you are into anything from simple bar drinks to frou-frou boat drinks (I recommend the potted parrot and rum keg) this the book for you.

Here is Trader Vic's drink legacy in recipe form, with the occasional comment thrown in, as well as an entire gamut of historically important drinks, from cocktails to hot drinks. It gives proper, accurate recipes (with correct brands and types of liquors), wheras current guides (like Mr. Boston) accept inferior substitutes. It is a MUST HAVE for any bar of true distinction. *This was a smartly updated version of his original bartending guide.*

There are lots of fun anecdotes in addition to a very extensive list of cocktails & punches in this book. A must-have for any tropical drink fan!

This fabulous Cocktail Bible has been updated 30 years from the original on to reflect fashion in cocktails and the changes in tastes to what people were drinking when published - a social history of cocktail making includes 143 Trader Vic Classics including the ubiquitous Mai Tai (not in Original), plus non alcoholics, plus the gimlets, Martinis, Manhattans, Daquiris and over a thousand others ( punches, hot drinks, wine cups within this too). There is the updated pictorial and diagram section on glasses and prep. It is a humorous account of bar-tending with anecdotes and gives the Best In Class recipe for the Classics - as it says it is not a liqueur makers glossy leaflet to make you drink more of a particular product. Its readable and this copy is going to my StepDaughter and Son-In_Law as a present as they have discovered Trader Vics for special events - and 3rd generation of the family to love the atmosphere at the bottom of the Hilton on Park Lane and see the Samoan Fogcutter Vase oops vessel in its correct setting not with flowers in!

".....IT'S A COLLECTION OF ALL THE CURRENTLY RELEVANT RECIPES that I have been able to gather throughout the country and even throughout the world.
They are all authentic.
Read them over first, then pick out the ones you would like to make or you think you would enjoy drinking, and make those.
I hope you will enjoy them."
[from the book of the back of the jacket]

I picked up the 1972 print of the Trader Vic's Bar Guide in Shreveport, around 1974.This edition has the original recipes, instead of the mixes in the new publication. I liked the book so much, that from October through December, I spent $800 on spirits to try out recipes inside this well written book. That was a long time ago when you could buy marischino liqueur, the secret ingredient in the original Dacquri recipe... At the time, I was in a dinner party competition. My friends enjoyed it. Boy did I ever have friends! They were waking up on the floor of my apartment and asking for the hang-over cure - a Banana Cow or THE breakfast drink- the Maui Fizz! Wonderful and addictive. Miss you Trader.