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Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails, with More than 500 Recipes by [David Kaplan, Nick Fauchald, Alex Day]

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Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails, with More than 500 Recipes Kindle Edition

by David Kaplan (Author), Nick Fauchald (Author), Alex Day (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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The definitive guide to the contemporary craft cocktail movement, from one of the highest-profile, most critically lauded, and influential bars in the world.

Death & Co is the most important, influential, and oft-imitated bar to emerge from the contemporary craft cocktail movement. Since its opening in 2006, Death & Co has been a must-visit destination for serious drinkers and cocktail enthusiasts, and the winner of every major industry award—including America’s Best Cocktail Bar and Best Cocktail Menu at the Tales of the Cocktail convention. Boasting a supremely talented and creative bar staff—the best in the industry—Death & Co is also the birthplace of some of the modern era’s most iconic drinks, such as the Oaxaca Old-Fashioned, Naked and Famous, and the Conference.

Destined to become a definitive reference on craft cocktails, Death & Co features more than 500 of the bar’s most innovative and sought-after cocktails. But more than just a collection of recipes, Death & Co is also a complete cocktail education, with information on the theory and philosophy of drink making, a complete guide to buying and using spirits, and step-by-step instructions for mastering key bartending techniques. Filled with beautiful, evocative photography; illustrative charts and infographics; and colorful essays about the characters who fill the bar each night; Death & Co—like its namesake bar—is bold, elegant, and setting the pace for mixologists around the world.

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687 pages
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Ten Speed Press
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October 7, 2014
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“This is a book that will inspire the next generation of bartenders. The Death & Co crew has managed to mix equal measures of hospitality and creativity, and the impact of their experiment will be felt far beyond their modest East Sixth Street saloon. This book extends Death & Co’s reach even farther.”—Dale Degroff, author of The Craft of the Cocktail

“Death & Co changed the way we drink in America. This elegant, intelligent book—with drink recipes from the ‘Dirty Dozen’ of top bartender/mixologists working in America today (all Death & Co veterans), plus sound, concise advice on every aspect of drink making—will make sure that nobody could possibly forget that.”—David Wondrich, author of Imbibe! and Punch

“Death & Co has become an integral part of New York’s cocktail culture, and will remain a part of it for years to come. David and Alex have influenced the way people drink in New York City (and around the world), and I’m constantly inspired whenever I step into their bar. They craft each drink just as I would approach a dish, piecing together the ingredients, testing it tirelessly, striving for perfection, and also trying to connect each recipe to a story. There is a real art, a real passion behind everything they do, and this book will act as a timeless reference for anyone interested in cocktails.”—Daniel Humm, chef/co-owner of Eleven Madison Park and Co-Author of I Love New York

“A fascinating, in-depth look at one of the best bars out there—brimming with the same attitude and resolve that made Death & Co a true winner in the field. This book is a one-stop shop for anyone interested in cocktails and the bars that serve them, and it’s a brilliant read, to boot.”—Gaz Regan, author of the Joy of Mixology

“With Death & Co, David, Nick, and Alex have created an instant classic for craft cocktail enthusiasts and professionals alike. I’ve found this book to be essential in my home.”—April Bloomfield, chef/owner of The Spotted Pig

About the Author

DAVID KAPLAN is the founder and owner of Death & Co, a New York City nightlife destination, as well as the co-owner of Proprietors LLC, a full-service hospitality company, with ALEX DAY.

ALEX DAY is a former bartender at Death & Co, and currently a partner in Proprietors LLC, Death & Co, Nitecap, The Normandie Club, The Walker Inn, and Honeycut with DAVID KAPLAN.

NICK FAUCHALD is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and publisher of print and digital products. He's been an editor at Food & Wine, Wine Spectator, and Every Day with Rachael Ray magazines. From 2008 to 2011, he was the editor-in-chief of Tasting Table.

--This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN : B00JNQMZ32
Publisher : Ten Speed Press (October 7, 2014)
Publication date : October 7, 2014
Language : English
File size : 26172 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 687 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #181,708 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #32 in Liquor, Spirits & Mixed Drinks
- #138 in Whiskey
- #254 in Special Occasion Cooking

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Wind Engineer

Excellent Book - Significant Limitations for Home Use

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2017

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If you're looking for a cocktail book to help you put together a great home bar and start mixing more advanced cocktails this is great but a large number of the recipes are impractical for most home bars. If you are a bartender or bar owner looking to up your skills or the level of complexity at your bar then this is really going to be helpful.

What I like about the book:

I like that this book covers everything: Bar equipment, ice, technique, history, tasting, some "story essays" about the bar, and very important for developing a home bar is that it goes through the different types of spirits and gives you explanations of the different types and specific recommendations for brands to buy. This is step one of what is needed to be a great home bartender.

What I don't like about the book:

The recipes are a reflection of the Death and Co bar, where expert mixologists are creating very interesting and complex drinks. However this just doesn't work very well for a home bar. A large percentage of the recipes require something such as "Grapefruit infused Punt E Mes." The book gives you instructions on how to make all of these complex ingredients, but they aren't practical for a home bar. Therefore almost 90% of the recipes are pretty useless for me.

The index isn't great. An index is supposed to reference every instance of a word in the book. So you should be able to look up "St. Germain" and it should give you every page where there is a recipe including St. Germain, but the book doesn't have this. For example in the section of the book on Modifier Liquors it describes St. Germain as "bar tenders katsup" because it has been used so much in so many drinks. I went ahead and bought a bottle but I have yet to find a recipe in the book I can make. There is no way to look for recipes using it other than to go one by one through the whole book, and when I have found one that uses it, the recipe contains one or more other complex ingredients that I don't have.

Definitely a very good book and I've learned very much from it, but it is far from an ideal resource for a home bar enthusiast.

251 people found this helpful

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For the curious and studious mixologist, a reference to turn to again and again

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2018

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I bought this book on recommendation from a favorite bartender. It's one of the better-value kitchen books I own: long, super dense, and cloth-bound, with high-quality photos and drawings. It's part instructions (how to properly shake and stir, how to taste spirits, what types of ingredients go well together, how to form intuition for the right amount of sweet vs. sour), part recipes, and part memoir / vignettes from the NYC bar. It's pretty impressive how erudite these guys are; they write with convincing authority, and the kind of mastery that makes the book feel like an aspiration that you know you will never fully achieve, but that you can keep turning to again and again to learn more.

It gets five stars because I use it all the time and find it a fount of random wisdom and interesting asides, but I should note a few things:
- There are no vodka recipes...they think vodka is boring.
- Many of the drink recipes require obscure ingredients or expensive liquors, so the actual number of recipes I've made from this book so far is kind of small (limited to their "classic cocktails" section). However, this gives one plenty of room to grow and makes it possible for the book to appeal to all kinds of mixologists, from casual to more serious.
- I'm sometimes frustrated by the lack of an index to their recipes, e.g. say I want to find all the recipes that include white (blanc) vermouth, well that isn't possible. I have to page through the various sections (Classic Cocktails, Gin Stirred, Gin Shaken, etc.) hoping to stumble upon this ingredient.

47 people found this helpful

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Fiendship Fun

Good read, cocktail codex is better though

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2019

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If you purchased this one after cocktail codex like I did, I think you would have the same impression. Cocktail codex is masterfully curated with a beautiful narrative of the history of the core cocktails and the importance and contribution of each component in a classic like the martini. If it isn’t already, it will become a holy grail text in the bartending world with enough time.

I am a fan of death and co and enjoyed cocktail codex so I felt like this is a good purchase as well. Well written but I felt that it’s biggest flaw is that it is pretty much a big picture book of the history of death and co. The content reflects the title exactly?1?1!1!1 lolololol I know it sounds silly to complain that the book is exactly about d&c ... but like any story book it’s kind of a one and done deal. I don’t think I’m super compelled to pick it up and refer to it like I am with cocktail codex.

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Elliot Lee

Perfect for curious bartenders

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 11, 2019

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The Death & Co. book is a fantastic read for bartenders at an intermediate level.
The book itself contains a history of the bar, as well as guides on creating the perfect atmosphere, customer service advice and of course cocktail recipes.

Some of the classics have multiple recipes to appeal to the wide range of tastes customers have, and explain how to identify which recipe to use in which situation. There is also a selection of flavour pairing wheels and a vast guide on bar techniques. I particularly enjoyed the guide on how to stir multiple drinks using just one hand.

The pictures in the book are beautiful, as well as the cover of the book being so gorgeous that it looks incredible facing forward on my bookshelf. I hope to one day visit the bar.

One person found this helpful

Laurent Fillinger

The perfect Bartending Guide.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2015

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Since buying this book I have expanded my already sizable bar by more than 2/5ths it's size. I now have a shelf devoted entirely to vermouths and amaros. I'm not trying to brag, I'm trying to say that this book inspires you to try all the fussy ingredients in their intricate incarnations because the results and the fun are hard to contend with. As a former bartender, I confess that much of the nomenclature, techniques, and potions were unknown to me. It was nice to uncover so much to learn and fetishize in the world of mixology. The book's language and detailed explanations make it accessible for the novice but their attention to the minutiae and the abstract keep it fascinating even for the more well-worn barkeep. Can't recommend it enough.

8 people found this helpful

Callum Cummins

Perfect for those looking to expand their home bar. A concise, modern guide to mixing drinks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2020

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I've been using this book for years now, and have made many of the drinks within and visited the bar in person since my purchase. It's a fantastic resource, containing recipes for hundreds of delicious cocktails. Lots of good theory to be read if you go beyond the recipes as well, detailing how the bartenders at Death & Co go about creating new drinks and flavours that they have found go together well.

It's been an invaluable resource since I purchased it, and helped me expand my home bar from the dregs of my university days to a collection that allows me to make a good number of the drinks recipes contained within the book. Many of the recipes can be made with some core purchases, with very few recipes calling for the sort of ingredient that will sit in the back of your cabinet unused for years.

Whether you're new to mixing drinks, or you've got several years experience behind you, you can't go wrong with this book.

lordbarron

My favourite cocktail book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2018

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This book is superbly put together. The detail, typesetting, illustrations and photography are all top class. But it is the content I find most valuable.
Comprehensive, expert, pragmatic, honest, fun, funny and passionate are words I would use to describe this book. I'm looking forward to exploring the recipes and techniques and applying what I've learned to the drinks I already make.