Eat Your Drink: Culinary Cocktails [9780062391285]

Overview

Create your own artisanal "farm-to-glass" specialty cocktails using local, seasonal, unusual, and organic produce with this illustrated bartending guide from the renowned cocktail chef who is transforming modern mixology.

Matthew Biancaniello, the former cocktail chef for the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel’s famous Library Bar, is creating cocktails the world has never tasted before. Going beyond the quotidian Whiskey Sour or Tom Collins, Biancaniello is mixing it up with imaginative drinks such as “The Heirloom Tomato Mojito”, a twenty-five-year-aged balsamic vinegar and strawberry libation named “The Last Tango in Modena,” and a fresh arugula-infused “Roquette.”

One of the fastest-rising and most unique talents in the world of bartending, Biancaniello crafts exciting new drinks based on farm-fresh, seasonal, organic ingredients. A complement to farm-to-table dining, his fresh take on cocktails is ushering in a new age of drinking: “farm-to-glass”, and with the addition of his foraging and gardening methods, “ground to glass.” Captured in gorgeous full-color photographs, the libations in Eat Your Drink are both aesthetically beautiful and delicious.

Eat Your Drink explores cocktails that push boundaries though never-before-imagined flavor combinations. Following Biancaniello’s lead, you too can learn to blend alcohol and food together to create an elevated cocktail experience that requires you to savor, explore and . . . eat your drink.

• Farm-to-Glass Recipes: Go beyond the bar and into the farmers’ market with cocktails featuring fresh arugula, heirloom tomatoes, and other unexpected seasonal produce.
• Cocktail Infusions & Techniques: Master the art of infusions, foams, and culinary-inspired methods to create drinks with unforgettable flavor and texture.
• From Garden to Glass: Discover how to use foraged and gardened ingredients, and explore truly boundary-pushing libations made with uni, oysters, and candy cap mushrooms.
• Stunning Full-Color Photography: Every drink is captured in gorgeous, inspiring photos that make this guide as beautiful on the coffee table as it is behind the bar.