A proper drink: the untold story of how a band of bartenders saved the civilized drinking world

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The actor -- A British bartender -- 'Tinis and Cosmos -- Angels in the East Village -- Princes in exile -- Information, please -- Along the Left Coast -- Two Californians -- Milk & honey -- Rock stars -- Inventing the Ambassador -- London assurance -- The anti-sasha -- The protégé -- Foam and flames -- Exchange program -- Cocktails for the masses -- The merry prankster -- The whole package -- The ballet dance and the monk -- Milk & honey west -- The scolds -- The Jack Rose club -- The entrepreneurs -- Somewhere in Eastern Europe -- The Golden Era -- Old hotels, new blood -- Don't call it molecular -- Bringing it all home -- Taking back Tiki -- The big time -- Other cities, other bars -- A cocktail convention -- A man in a room -- The bigger time -- Open 24 hours -- Epilogue -- Should-be classics.;A Proper Drink is the first-ever book to tell the full, unflinching story of the contemporary craft cocktail revival. Award-winning writer Robert Simonson interviewed more than 200 key players from around the world, and the result is a rollicking (if slightly tipsy) story of the characters--bars, bartenders, patrons, and visionaries--who in the last 25 years have changed the course of modern drink-making. The book also features a curated list of about 40 cocktails--25 modern classics, plus an additional 15 to 20 rediscovered classics and classic contenders--to emerge from the movement.