The Daily Cocktail: 365 Intoxicating Drinks and the Outrageous Events That Inspired Them

by Larry Donovan, Dalyn Miller

Have your own happy hour every day of the year with this delightful cocktail cookbook. From martinis, shots, and margaritas to classics like Manhattans, Alexanders, juleps, fizzes, old-fashioneds, and rickeys, you'll find intoxicating delights for every season. When it's too hot to take your drink outdoors, hole up in air-conditioned comfort and dream of your next cruise or seaside vacation with a Sex on the Beach, Bahama Mama, or Grand Hawaiian Screw. When the snow is flying, warm up by the fire with a Flaming Dr. Pepper, Hot Toddy, or Alabama Slammer. Each day has its own page, with detailed directions, variations on the cocktail du jour, suggestions for snacks to serve with it, colorful quotes about drinks and drinking, and more.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction

394 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

So this one is pretty self explanatory. After a short intro where some basics are explained, it goes into one drink per day of the year. Every day includes a paragraph with a fact of the day, usually something that happened on that day in history, and the drink is connected to that in some way. There are also huge quotes about drinking printed on the sides of many of the pages. So the book is honestly more of a daily fact book rather than a drink book, cause the actual recipes are super short in comparison! There aren't very many photos either. It's mostly America-focused, though I appreciate that May 17th is dedicated to Norway! The writing style is too casual for my taste, if you can even say that, especially for something like this. It's also kinda dated.
There is a shopping list at the end, as well as a drinks and liquor indexes, which is nice, so you can find the drinks easier since this format isn't the best, I'd prefer that the drinks were categorized in some way. The drink recipes themselves are very simple, so it's something anyone can do. You've got the most basic and famous drinks, drinks with more unusual combinations and drinks that'll probably make you pass out!