The Cocktail Edit

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＂Beautiful... a classy, classic book.＂ - Diana Henry

＂A really lovely and well thought out piece of work that will be well used.＂ - Dave Broom, author of The Way of Whisky

＂We don’t have the cupboard full of recondite bitters and liqueurs that so many mixologists expect of us. So Alice Lascelles has tackled the problem straight-on and produced a neat edit of more than 100 drinks that rely on just a few core ingredients.＂ - Tony Turnbull, The Times

Cocktails should be simple. Acclaimed drinks writer Alice Lascelles knows everything there is to know about making delicious drinks at home with minimal equipment and fuss.

The Cocktail Edit is built around a ’capsule collection’ of 12 classic cocktails - each of these is followed by six twists, plus tips and inspiration for creating many more. The book also offers essential advice on getting your home bar set up - and shows how easy it is to make amazing cocktails with just a few basic tools, ingredients and techniques.

It’s a guide brimming with trade secrets on everything from choosing the best-value spirits to making cocktails for a party; written in a conversational style, and illustrated with beautiful photography, The Cocktail Edit is practical, opinionated and fun.

Alice Lascelles is an award-winning journalist, author, presenter and drinks expert. She is the drinks columnist for the FT’s How to Spend It magazine and a regular contributor to FT Weekend. Previously she was drinks columnist for The Sunday Times and The Times. Her articles and columns have also appeared in The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, Monocle, Noble Rot, Prospect, jancisrobinson.com, Evening Standard, Vice as well as many trade and specialist titles. In October 2019 she hosted Amazon’s first live-streamed whisky tasting. In 2016 Alice was named Spirits Communicator or the Year at the International Wine & Spirit Competition. She has also been shortlisted for Louis Roederer Wine Feature Writer of the Year. When she is not writing, Alice has a second life as a musician which has included touring with the White Stripes and releasing an album under the name Alice Gun.