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Summary: Love this book!
Review: Most books on cocktails focus exclusively on how to make the drinks. This book takes a more atmospheric approach. It has great examples of what drinks and food to serve for different kinds of cocktail parties. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: A Fresh Take on the Cocktail Party
Review: This book is a breath of fresh air in the sometimes overly fussy genre of entertaining books. The parties all have a fabulous air of fantasy about them, but the authors really show you how you can get the same feel. My favorite is the Impossibly Small Apartment party, which shows how a less-than-perfect pad can be transformed into a cool spot for a glamorous get-together. Actually, the best part is the original cocktail recipes, which are sophisticated and delicious. Too many cocktail books are just encyclopedias of drinks, many of which are awful. The authors have done a great job of presenting excellent classic recipes, and their original recipes are killer! Overall, this is a younger, hipper version of Colin Cowie or Martha. This book is a must-have for bartenders or aspiring mixologists, and would be a perfect present for a young person starting out in party-giving (maybe for a 21st b-day) or for anyone who's get-togethers could use an infusion of fun, funky ideas.
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Summary: Cocktail Parties With a Twist: Drink+Food+Style
Review: This book is amazing. It teaches you how to have the hippest parties in town. Lacking cocktail enthusiasm - this book helps you find it, in a big, glamorous way. And beautiful photos and people, to boot.
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Summary: Cocktail Parties With a Twist: Drink+Food+Style
Review: This book is amazing. It teaches you how to have the hippest parties in town. Lacking cocktail enthusiasm - this book helps you find it, in a big, glamorous way. And beautiful photos and people, to boot.
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Summary: Simply Gorgeous
Review: This book is simply gorgeous. It will inspire you to dream up some excuse to throw a party and enjoy it. It is a "must-have" for every kitchen bookshelf and certainly worthy of display on the coffee table. I bought one for myself and am now buying a few more to give away as Christmas presents.
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Summary: Fizzer
Review: Why did I buy it? Looked good, sounded good. Lived up to it's promise? Too many group shots of chatty singles in salubrious discussion. Would have been nice to have seen more shots of the food. In the end, the recipies themselves proved to be a little more of the same. Unimaginative, hardly unique.
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