See Mix Drink is a guide to making your own cocktails at home. It contains the step by step recipes to make 100 different drinks, with an appeal to everyone, from champagnes to brandy to vodka. The book shares with you every ingredient you'll need to make the drink, from glassware to shakers or stirrers to the alcohol involved.
Shows like Mad Men have made cocktails all the rage again, so I'm not surprised to know that the author decided to learn to make one of the cocktails because of the show. I've never been particularly very good at mixing drinks - when I could drink, I usually tended to stick to either a glass of Merlot or simply cranberry and vodka if I was making it myself. At one point I discovered a "Black Sheep", which is made with brandy, but I would only have it when ordering in a bar.
So my knowledge of making cocktails is pretty minuscule, which would make me a very bad 50's housewife. ;) I like See Mix Drink, because not only does it share with you the bar essentials, which is great for a cocktail newbie like me, but each drink has a color illustration with a break down of each ingredient you're adding to the drink. There is also a color photograph of the finished drink for you to compare yours to. It's detailed folks, and that means you can't mess it up! It even shares with you how to pronounce the names, which comes in handy for some of the names.
If you're planning on hosting a holiday get together, or maybe you just want to have a little fun while watching Mad Men or a vintage movie night - you can have a lot of fun learning and sharing new drinks thanks to See Mix Drink. I've seen a few how-to's on mixing drinks recently, and this one definitely is the most detailed and easiest to follow, especially for those of us who have no clue what they are doing. ;) It would also make a great stocking stuffer gift for the aspiring bartender.
See Mix Drink: A Refreshingly Simple Guide To Crafting The World's Most Popular Cocktails by Brian D. Murphy is a hardcover food and recipe book published by Little, Brown and Company. It is 232 pages long. The suggested cover price is $14.99, but Amazon has it available for $10.08 as of this posting.
I received a copy of this book in order to read it and share my thoughts. All opinions are my own and not that of the author(s) or publisher.
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This sounds like a fun book and perfect for a newbie at drink mixing like me. Thanks for sharing!
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