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A graphic novel history of the cocktail—from prehistoric wassail to our current boozy renaissance—featuring 20 recipes by drinks historian, Daily Beast columnist, and award-winning author David Wondrich.

There's no better writer to tell the colorful history of cocktails than David Wondrich, widely considered to be one of the world's foremost…

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Presented in a graphic novel format, one can be easily fooled into thinking that ā€œThe Comic Book History of The Cocktailā€ by David Wondrich (and impressively illustrated by Dean Kotz), is simply a whimsical and fast pass through the history of cocktails. In just a few pages though, the reader becomes aware that they are also being served a concise and thoughtful look at the long, and somewhat complicated past of the cocktail and its culture.

The tone is fun and conversational as David does an incredible job choosing what to include in such a wide-ranging, global and centuries spanning…

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