Book description
More than 100 cocktail recipes from badass women bartenders
Award-winning mixologists Ivy Mix and Lynnette Marrero co-founded Speed Rack, a global all-women bartending competition where competitors show off their talents making both classic and original drinks as quickly as their arms can shake and stir-all in the name of raising…
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From the dawn of cocktails, the opportunities for women to write bartending guides have historically been few and far between. Fortunately, this is now changing with the rise over the last few decades of female bartending talent. Authors Ivy Mix and Lynnette Marrero are up there with the best of them today.
A Quick Drink is a compendium of the recipes contributed by the all-female contestants of their global bartending competition, Speed Rack. It is both a lively read and a rare glimpse into the creative process behind the art of modern mixology.
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