The Maison Premiere Almanac - Cocktails, Oysters, Absinthe, and Other Essential Nutrients for the

Informationen zum Autor Joshua Boissy, Krystof Zizka, and Jordan Mackay with William Elliott Klappentext "A delightful, imaginative, and thoroughly original cocktail compendium and bartending manual with 90 drink recipes from the world-famous Brooklyn bar and restaurant. Maison Premiere is one of the country's most popular and influential bars, and has been a major player in both the craft cocktail revival and the bar and restaurant renaissance in New York City. Revered for its extravagant cocktails and immersive design, a visit to Maison Premiere is an experience that channels a time when cocktails were not merely a pleasure, but an essential part of daily life in late nineteenth century New York, New Orleans, and Paris. As captivating as the bar itself, The Maison Premiere Almanac is both a visual delight-drawing on photography, illustration, and graphic design-and a detailed guide to the rarefied subjects that make Maison Premiere unique, including deep explorations into the art of the cocktail and cutting-edge bartending techniques and equipment. There are also primers on absinthe (another Maison specialty), and recipes for highly refined cocktails, included among them martinis, toddys, punches, and mint juleps. Tutorials on oysters include how to confidently select and prepare them at home and how to eat them with style. And while packed with curious information and useful knowledge on cocktails and bartending for both enthusiastic beginner bartenders and seasoned cocktail lovers, the Almanac is also a visually arresting objet d'art that will make a perfect addition to any bookshelf"-- Leseprobe PREFACE on the almanac form; how to corral a vexingly diverse subject into a book; and the rare combination of style and substance I was first brought to Maison Premiere by a friend who knew I would like the place. At the time, which was a few years after Maison opened, I lived in San Francisco but came often to New York. As I drank an excellent cocktail, marveled at the intricate layers of interior design, perused a shockingly canny wine list (especially for a place recognized as a cocktail bar), and swallowed supremely pristine oysters, I thought to myself, “Where did this place come from?” Making it even more mysterious was the absence of any authorial signature. While a well-dressed gentleman stood at the door to lead us to our table, he was not the owner. Nor, it turned out, was anyone in the room. No one seemingly cared to take credit for this impressive act of creation. It would be a few years later that I would find myself sitting down at a table over seafood and drinks with Joshua and Krystof, the men responsible for Maison Premiere, talking about the possibility of adapting their precious vision into book form. We parted company that night not with a concept but with the knowledge that we liked one another and the promise of working together. The concept would take a while to hash out. After all, given the realities of selling a book these days, Maison’s inability to smoothly fit into any category posed a problem. Like the old cities that inspired it—New Orleans, New York, and Paris—Maison is a haphazard collection of diverse influences, whose identity is very much in the eye of the beholder. To seafood enthusiasts it’s an elite oyster bar with good drinks. To cocktail geeks it’s a rigorous bar with oysters. To scenesters it’s a Brooklyn specialty spot with cool design. To summertime bon vivants it’s a sunny garden with pretty cocktails. Some people swallow an oyster whole; some people chew on it a bit first. I chewed on this oyster a great deal before at last the word almanac somehow came to mind. If you quote the Oxford University Press to point out that this book is not “an annual calendar containing important dates and statistical information such as astronomical data and tide tables,” you are correct. Such were...

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Boissy, El, William Elliot, William Elliott, Jordan Mackay, Krystof Zizka
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2023
• EAN: 9781984825698
• ISBN: 978-1-984825-69-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 274 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Guides > Food & drink