Overview

Cocktails should be simple. Acclaimed drinks writer Alice Lascelles knows everything there is to know about making delicious drinks at home with minimal equipment and fuss. The Cocktail Edit is built around a ‘capsule collection’ of 12 classic cocktails – each of these is followed by six twists, plus tips and inspiration for creating many more. The book also offers essential advice on getting your home bar set up – and shows how easy it is to make amazing cocktails with just a few basic tools, ingredients and techniques. It’s a guide brimming with trade secrets on everything from choosing the best-value spirits to making cocktails for a party; written in a conversational style, and illustrated with beautiful photography, The Cocktail Edit is practical, opinionated and fun.

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Alice combines a curious eye with a fine appreciation of flavour. * Victoria Moore, The Telegraph * Reading The Cocktail Edit made me want to go into the back of the cupboard and make something I'd never tried before. It might be the only cocktail book you'll ever need. * Henry Jeffreys, Master of Malt * If you don't know Alice's writing you have pleasure ahead of you. Her enthusiasm for her subject is warm and infectious - her writing lucid, expert and funny. * Rachel Roddy * A wonderful collection of drinks recipes that satisfy the palate and inspire creativity. * Noah Rothbaum, Flaviar Times * Alice Lascelles knows everything there is to know about drinks and I've got no doubt this will be the usual high calibre offering she always delivers... It's the kind of practical advice that really stays with you and this book will offer much the same. * Olivier Ward, Spirits Beacon * With recipes built around 12 classic cocktails, acclaimed drinks writer Alice Lascelles offers twists, tips, and trade secrets for crafting stunning cocktails with minimal fuss. * Jacqueline Raposo, Epicurious *

Alice combines a curious eye with a fine appreciation of flavour. * Victoria Moore, The Telegraph * Reading The Cocktail Edit made me want to go into the back of the cupboard and make something I'd never tried before. It might be the only cocktail book you'll ever need. * Henry Jeffreys, Master of Malt * If you don't know Alice's writing you have pleasure ahead of you. Her enthusiasm for her subject is warm and infectious - her writing lucid, expert and funny. * Rachel Roddy * A wonderful collection of drinks recipes that satisfy the palate and inspire creativity. * Noah Rothbaum, Flaviar Times * Alice Lascelles knows everything there is to know about drinks and I've got no doubt this will be the usual high calibre offering she always delivers... It's the kind of practical advice that really stays with you and this book will offer much the same. * Olivier Ward, Spirits Beacon * With recipes built around 12 classic cocktails, acclaimed drinks writer Alice Lascelles offers twists, tips, and trade secrets for crafting stunning cocktails with minimal fuss. * Jacqueline Raposo, Epicurious * Check out the book. Lascelles is winningly enthusiastic but authoritative. * Niki Segnit, author of The Flavour Thesaurus *

Alice Lascelles knows everything there is to know about drinks and I've got no doubt this will be the usual high calibre offering she always delivers...It's the kind of practical advice that really stays with you and this book will offer much the same. -Olivier Ward, Spirits Beacon With recipes built around 12 classic cocktails, acclaimed drinks writer Alice Lascelles offers twists, tips, and trade secrets for crafting stunning cocktails with minimal fuss. - Jacqueline Raposo, Epicurious

With recipes built around 12 classic cocktails, acclaimed drinks writer Alice Lascelles offers twists, tips, and trade secrets for crafting stunning cocktails with minimal fuss. - Jacqueline Raposo, Epicurious

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Alice Lascelles is an award-winning journalist, author, presenter and drinks expert, who has been covering the drinks industry in all its forms for almost 20 years. She writes the drinks column for Financial Times How to Spend It magazine and is also a regular contributor to FT Weekend. Before moving to the Financial Times, she was drinks columnist for The Sunday Times and The Times. Alice is a regular on BBC Radio 4 programmes including The Food Programme and Kitchen Cabinet. She is a former winner of Fortnum & Mason Drinks Writer of the Year and IWSC Spirits Communicator of the Year, and a former runner-up in the Guild of Food Writers Awards and the Louis Roederer Wine Writer Awards.

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