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Raising the Bar

By lancastermike
June 11, 2005 in Spirits & Cocktails

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Posted June 11, 2005

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Posted June 11, 2005

My wife did some deal to get a free i-pod by joining lots of things on a list. I thought it was a scam and kept telling her she would get a "hi-pod". She really did get it and I was stunned.

Anyway, one of the things she had to do was join a cookbook club. The last book to fill the deal arrived yesterday. It is a cocktail book by Nick Mautone called "Raising the Bar". As an old bartender I find alot of cocktail books to be lame. This is a very nice exception to that.

He is a New York bartender and the book is well written with nice photos and it does not spend time talking about things that are a waste of time. If you see this it may be worth alook. Nothing groundbreaking for the expert mixers posting here, but I did enjoy it and will use it.