Bartender's Pantry

A professional guide that surveys and celebrates the culinary ingredients in mixed drinks, with more than 100 recipes from the world's most creative bartenders and the James Beard Award-winning author of Meehan's Bartender Manual. Jim Meehan's achievements as a pioneering bartender at Gramercy Tavern, The Pegu Club, and PDT in New York City helped pave the path for this generation's craft cocktail industry. Here, he's partnered with artist and designer Bart Sasso of Sasso & Co. and Atlanta's beloved Ticonderoga Club, award-winning author and journalist Emma Janzen, and renowned photographer AJ Meeker on an advanced handbook focused on the zero-proof components of cocktails that make or break the integrity of a drink. The Bartender's Pantry includes concise overviews of ten categories of ingredients--sugars, spices, dairy, grains and nuts, fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs, coffee, tea, soda and mineral water, and ferments--that cover each subject's modern history in drinks,