Cooking & Food· United States
Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails
by David Kaplan, Alex Day, Nick FauchaldAggregate Editorial Score15/100
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Published 2014432 pagesEnglish
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Published in 2014, Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails established David Kaplan, Alex Day, Nick Fauchald as one of the defining voices in cooking & food. The definitive book from one of New York's most influential cocktail bars, featuring over 500 recipes alongside the philosophy and techniques that made Death & Co a global standard-bearer for modern mixology. Themes of cocktails, bar culture, modern mixology run through the work.
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Recipes, food culture, and culinary history.
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Death & Co helped define the aesthetic and ethos of the modern American cocktail bar. This book is both a recipe collection and a manifesto, documenting the bar's approach to flavour balance, seasonal ingredients, and the art of hospitality. It remains one of the most referenced cocktail books of the 2010s.
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