new book

signature cocktails

from

phaidon press

now

available

internationally


A signature cocktail is a bespoke drink that expresses the nature of the time, person, or place for which it was created. Named one of Best Cookbooks Of 2023 by Food & Wine, Vice, Epicurious, and more, this collection of 200 iconic cocktail creations from around the globe covers almost 600 years of history. Each entry includes a detailed essay by Amanda Schuster, as well as recipes and instructions from famous bartenders past and present. This unprecedented volume combines recent modern classics with their predecessors using up-to-date research, and each entry is accompanied by a new modern photo. It’s a liquid time machine that takes readers from the Atholl Brose of 1400s Scotland to the Fish House Punch of colonial America, to the Negroni in Milan, the golden age of early 20th century New York City, Cuban, and Parisian cocktails, both versions of the Singapore Sling, the cheeky history of Dick Bradsell’s Espresso Martini in London, Kazuo Uyeda’s hard-shaken Tender Gimlet of modern Tokyo, all the way to the 2010s’ contemporary Mexico City scene, Goa, Jakarta, Beirut, Kyiv, New Orleans, and more. Ago Perrone, acclaimed Beverage Director of London’s Connaught Hotel Bar, contributes the foreword as well as a brand new recipe celebrating 100 years of Phaidon Press. Signature Cocktails is the perfect gift for cocktail aficionados, mixologists, bartenders, and industry professionals while the charming stories and accessible recipes will enthuse a mainstream audience interested in hospitality, history, entertaining, and culture.

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New York Cocktails


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Whether you live in the Big Apple or just visiting, Amanda Schuster’s guide (a top 10 nominee in the 2023 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History, or Spirits) through all five boroughs shows a rare insight into the joints that pump the heartbeat of the city. This book features 75 bars from the infamous to the relatively unknown, with sections organized by neighborhood. Renown drinks writer/historian David Wondrich’s foreword sets the tone for your journey to some of NYC’s greatest watering holes, plus an In Memoriam section pays tribute to those we lost in recent years.

Let drinks expert and NYC native Schuster be your witty guide: This well-researched guidebook hits the highlights in all five boroughs, with drink recipes from the city’s venues peppered in as boozy souvenirs. The compact volume fits easily in a pocket or travel bag (or gift bag, hint hint). -Kara Newman, Liquor.com

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Written in 2017, this book is a snapshot of the epicenter of the cocktail renaissance in New York City. Featuring more than 100 essential classic and neo-classic recipes by some of the best bartenders around town, you can bring a bite of the Big Apple right into your home bar while gaining insights from some of the city’s most iconic bar personalities of the modern age.

“This fat 352-page book covers drinking in New York from every angle, justifying the notion that this is the epicenter of the cocktail world. You’ll find the classics, pre- and post-Prohibition trends, significant personalities in the drinks world and profiles of bars and lounges and their signature cocktails.” -Florence Fabricant, The New York Times

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About Amanda

Amanda Schuster is a freelance writer and beverage industry consultant based in Brooklyn, New York. A trained sommelier, former wine and spirits retail buyer, skilled metalsmith, occasionally still a jewelry designer (mostly for repairs), and proud beauty school dropout with a medieval history degree from NYU, she has been writing professionally about the drinks industry as well as food and travel for nearly two decades. The author of three books, she was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of Alcohol Professor, and her work has published in Atlas Obscura, Liquor.com, Saveur, Inside Hook, Forbes, Bloomberg News, SevenFifty, Imbibe, Distiller.com, The Whiskey Wash, and many others. A 2023 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award nominee for book writing, she has served as a tasting panel judge for Ultimate Spirits Challenge and the John Barleycorn Awards for spirits, and as a media and Timeless Committee judge for Tales of the Cocktail.

Aside from books and editorial, she is an experienced PR copywriter, and is available for freelance projects as well as tutorials, lectures, and podcasts. She thinks the worst thing to happen to whiskey since Prohibition is the pickleback.

Oh. And Duran Duran once published one of her articles on their official website and she recently participated in a VIP member’s only fan Q&A. To paraphrase the lyrics of “Rio”, one would suppose that’s pretty nice.

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