Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist Author: Tim Federle | Language: English | ISBN:
B00B3M3M2C | Format: EPUB
Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist Description
2013 Goodreads Choice Award in the category of Food & Cookbooks
Congrats. You fought through War and Peace, burned through Fahrenheit 451, and sailed through Moby-Dick. All right, you nearly drowned in Moby-Dick, but you made it to shore—and you deserve a drink!
A fun gift for barflies and a terrific treat for book clubs, Tequila Mockingbird is the ultimate cocktail book for the literary obsessed. Featuring 65 delicious drink recipes—paired with wry commentary on history’s most beloved novels—the book also includes bar bites, drinking games, and whimsical illustrations throughout.
Even if you don’t have a B.A. in English, tonight you’re gonna drink like you do. Drinks include:
The Pitcher of Dorian Grey Goose
The Last of the Mojitos
Love in the Time of Kahlúa
Romeo and Julep
A Rum of One’s Own
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margarita
Vermouth the Bell Tolls
and more!
- File Size: 1608 KB
- Print Length: 160 pages
- Publisher: Running Press (April 23, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00B3M3M2C
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,031 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #28
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Drinks & Beverages > Bartending
- #28
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Drinks & Beverages > Bartending
The literary quips are great, funny and informative; but the cocktail recipes are absolutely useless and clearly an afterthought. There are so many fantastic books on cocktails out right now. This author should have consulted someone who is actually a great bartender or mixologist. I've been bartending for many years and I've worked with some of the best. Coming up with a quippy name for a great new cocktail certainly adds to it's staying power and even to it's enjoyment so I do respect that. It's what drew me to waste $8 on the kindle edition of the book.
The problem is, when you come up with the name first and then try to make a cocktail that fits the name (rather than the other way around), it takes some skill and knowledge and facility with making drinks. That is not evident anywhere in this book. The author doesn't know the first thing about actually making drinks. In addition to so-what drinks or re-naming what is basically a Khalua and Cream, one of the drinks calls for Champagne to be included in a Daiquiri that is then put in a blender. Champagne is an expensive ingredient to use just for the literary value. You'll never taste it and it won't have any textural impact because once through a blender, Champagne no longer fizzes. It fizzles, just like the book.
The author just thought if a great title (which got me to buy the book), then thought of a lot of great cocktail names based on literature (well done) but then cobbled together a haphazard list of random ingredients and re-hashed existing old cocktail recipes with zero skill. This was a great concept. If only it contained great drinks that were worth drinking.
See books by David Wondrich, Dale DeGoff, Jim Meehan or historical cocktail books by Jerry Thomas or Tom Bullock or Harry Craddock.
Provided by: The Book Bar.co
Take note book clubs, fans of classic literature, people who like getting wasted on a Wednesday. Tim Federle has managed to mingle the two most important elements in my life (well, right up there with life, love, family & friends); drinks & a good read.
I grabbed the book and really had no idea what to expect. Was it a book about books? Was it a book about drinks? Didn't matter. It had an excellent title and awesome cover art.
So grab a glass, already. Let's get a little stupid and look a little smart. Even if you don't have a BA in English, tonight you're gonna drink like you do.
Federle, Tim (2013-04-23). Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist (Kindle Locations 152-153). Running Press. Kindle Edition.
So as I was standing in a 2 hour long line to get my kids into the latest mini build at our local Lego store when I started this magnificent journey through memories of reads from the past (required reads) and drinks yet to be enjoyed. I laughed out loud, much to the chagrin of my fellow line loiterers, and I think I dog-eared (technically speaking, that little blue life-saver on Kindle) pretty much every single dink mentioned.
(LOVE IN THE TIME OF KAHLÚA; LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (1985) BY GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ)
Never settle . . . even for a doctor . . . with a hot accent. Otherwise, you could go a half-century till you find the real thing. In Márquez's version of romance, the zipper-straining desire of a trio of lovebirds is practically an illness, eating his characters from the inside out.
Federle, Tim (2013-04-23). Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist (Kindle Locations 338-340). Running Press. Kindle Edition.
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