Cocktail Dive Bar

Dive deep into the world of cocktail lore, classic recipes, and hard-won wisdom from behind the bar in Big Fat Cocktails: Real Drinks, Fake History, and Questionable Advice from New Orleans' Celebrated Cocktail Dive. In this irreverent and engaging guide T. Cole Newton, the owner and proprietor of the beloved Louisiana bar Twelve Mile Limit, brings classic and original cocktail recipes to life with a combination of colorful invented histories and real stories, alongside advice drawn from his experience as a young bar owner in the Crescent City. Lively tongue-in-cheek mini-essays on a range of topics (including such illuminating takes as why the unflappable Maury Povich is the ideal role model for the service industry) break up this alphabetical compendium of cocktail recipes, and are paired with personality-filled illustrations by Bazil Zerinsky. Make the book your own by taking recipe notes or coloring in the playful, graphic drawings.