title: How to Booze: Exquisite Cocktails and Unsound Advice
author:  Jordan Kaye 
description: Starred Review. In their introduction, experienced barhands Altier and Kaye state that a "good drink, when it's put together right and is suited to the occasion, transforms you into a better version of yourself," setting the tone for this sharp guide to drinks for every conceivable occasion. Buoyed by wit as bracing as a gin martini, the duo lead a tour through dozens of cocktails, offering suggestions for the end of a long unlucky streak (a Gin Rickey) and when sitting next to a movie star (the rum and fruit-juicy Mary Pickford) as well as more commonplace events like meeting the in-laws (the gin-based Fine and Dandy), a high school reunion (a Rusty Nail), or flying coach (a Madras). Rather than devolving into sheer novelty, misogyny or mean-spiritedness, the authors deftly walk the line (rare exceptions include "last drink before AA"), offering cogent information on a drink's creation and characteristics, along with sharp commentary such as "your sexual orientation is at best a self-fulfilling prophecy, and not a very interesting one at that" in the entry for sexual experimentation (calling for a rye-and-maraschino liqueur Fancy Free). The duo, veteran New York drink-slingers both (Altier currently runs a Manhattan bar), keep a canny balance between the educational and the irreverent, making for a terrifically entertaining guide to informed imbibing.
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  _Dedicated to my mom and dad, for always encouraging me to pursue my passions,
  even when they’re made of ice_.
  
  
  _And of course, to Drew—none of this would exist without you_.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Leslie Kirchhoff.  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
  without written permission from the publisher.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
  
  
  Names: Kirchhoff, Leslie, author.  
  Title: Disco cube cocktails : 100+ innovative recipes for artful ice and
  drinks / Leslie Kirchhoff.  
  Description: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2020]  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2019010027 |  
  ISBN 9781452180816 (hardcover : alk. paper);  
  ISBN 9781452181639 (epub, mobi)  
  Subjects: LCSH: Cocktails. | Ice.  
  Classification: LCC TX951 .K435 2020 | DDC 641.87/4—dc23  
  LC record available at <https://lccn.loc.gov