Working together or separately

[JAZ]

Here's a non-cocktail-related question. Sometimes you two work together on your books and articles, and sometimes you go solo. Specifically, you each have written your own cocktail/bartending guide. What determines whether you collaborate or not? Is it interest, or approach, or just circumstances?

[Gary Regan]

A lot of that has to do with circumstances really. Mardee also has another business that takes up a lot of her time, and that sometimes dictates what we do together, and what we do seperately.

Our 2 recent cocktail/bartender books reflect what we said in another thread--we think in different ways on lots of subjects (wouldn't life get boriing if we didn't?), and those books reflect, to an extent, our individual philosophies.