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"What's a dirty martini? How do you pronounce cuarenta y rres? Which glass do you use for a stinger? How did the margarita get its name? Answers to these questions and thousands more can be found in The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide, a one-stop, user-friendly cocktail guide featuring more than 1,000 drink recipes and 600 definitions for cocktail-related terms. The Ultimate A-To-Z Bar Guide offers a blend of features, including: definitions of over 600 cocktail- and drink-related terms, including liqueurs, types of drinks, cocktail jargon, and the etymology of drinks like the martini and the fuzzy navel, all organized in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format with sound-out phonetics; drink recipes for more than 1,000 cocktails for every season and occasion, each recipe is complete with a graphic showing the appropriate glass to use; ideas on how to make sure guests have a great time while encouraging responsible drinking; yips on everything from stocking a home bar to choosing the right glassware, plus loads of professional bartending tricks and shortcuts for creating the perfect cocktail; humor through anecdotes, toasts, and quotes from the famous and infamous; and four indexes that make finding the listing you want a snap! Accessible, fun, hip, and written in the Herbsts' inimitable style, The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide deserves a place at every home and professional bar."-- |