Cocktail Edit

Hot Dinners Best Cookbooks of 2022The Times ‘Best Food Books of 2022’ The Daily Telegraph ‘Best Drink Gifts’ "Beautiful... a classy, classic book." – Diana Henry"A really lovely and well thought out piece of work that will be well used." – Dave Broom, author of The Way of Whisky"We don’t have the cupboard full of recondite bitters and liqueurs that so many mixologists expect of us. So Alice Lascelles has tackled the problem straight-on and produced a neat edit of more than 100 drinks that rely on just a few core ingredients." – Tony Turnbull, The TimesCocktails should be simple. Acclaimed drinks writer Alice Lascelles knows everything there is to know about making delicious drinks at home with minimal equipment and fuss.The Cocktail Edit is built around a ‘capsule collection’ of 12 classic cocktails – each of these is followed by six twists, plus tips and inspiration for creating many more. The book also offers essential advice on getting your home bar set up – and shows how easy it is to make amazing cocktails with just a few basic tools, ingredients and techniques. It’s a guide brimming with trade secrets on everything from choosing the best-value spirits to making cocktails for a party; written in a conversational style, and illustrated with beautiful photography, The Cocktail Edit is practical, opinionated and fun.

Alice combines a curious eye with a fine appreciation of flavour., Reading The Cocktail Edit made me want to go into the back of the cupboard and make something I’d never tried before. It might be the only cocktail book you'll ever need., If you don’t know Alice’s writing you have pleasure ahead of you. Her enthusiasm for her subject is warm and infectious – her writing lucid, expert and funny., A wonderful collection of drinks recipes that satisfy the palate and inspire creativity., Alice Lascelles knows everything there is to know about drinks and I've got no doubt this will be the usual high calibre offering she always delivers... It's the kind of practical advice that really stays with you and this book will offer much the same.

Alice Lascelles is an award-winning journalist, author, presenter and drinks expert, who has been covering the drinks industry in all its forms for almost 20 years. She writes a popular drinks column for the Financial Times and can often be found talking about drinks on the TV and Radio 4 programmes including Kitchen Cabinet and The Food Programme. She is a former winner of the Fortnum & Mason Drinks Writer of the Year and IWSC Spirits Communicator of the Year and has also been shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writer Awards and Louis Roederer Wine Writer Awards several times.