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Cocktail Culture by Mark Kingwell, with design and decoration by Seth

Food & Drink/ Gift
Published October 2007.
Hardback (178 x 135mm).
£9.99.
256pp.
ISBN: 978 1 84627 114 4

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Cocktail Culture is a strong fizzy combo. Here are good humour and good liquor aplenty, with literary anecdotes, footnotes to history, and secret recipes all mixed to perfection by philosopher-barfly Mark Kingwell, and served to you, chilled, with a elegant twist. Inside these pages, as in the smoothest saloon, great authors nuzzle up to great actors and knock back great drinks, whose kick will have you nicely oiled to sigh, flirt, banter and slide slowly under the table with the best of them: Chandler, Hemingway, Wodehouse, Amis, Fitzgerald, Hitchcock and Wilder.

Like the sharpest cocktails, this is a book 'with just enough pop to snap your head back', and it is perhaps the most sparklingly written testimonial ever composed to this intoxicating subject.