The American Bar: The Artistry of Mixing Drinks

This "bar bible" provides recipes for mixing the perfect drink, classical or exotic, and offers tips on serving it correctly.

Whether you're celebrating a special occasion or just relaxing with a cocktail, let world-renowned bartender Charles Schumann be your guide to mixing masterful libations. American Bar--the most authoritative cocktail book ever published--provides all the information the cocktail lover or professional bartender needs to serve up the perfect drink. Inside American Bar you'll find:

Recipes for more than 500 drinks, listed alphabetically

An easy-to-use drink index arranged by drink categories

The fascinating history and names of leading brands of all the major cocktail components

A handy guide to bartending equipment

A glossary of international bar terms and measurements

Illustrated with hundreds of delightful 1930s-style line drawings by Günter Mattei, this exceptionally handsome book is an indispensable companion to home or professional entertaining.

Other Details: More than 100 illustrations 392 pages 5 x 5" Published 1995

"The drink mixer's bible." --The New York Times

Author Biography: Charles Schumann has been a bartender for more than twenty years, the last ten as proprietor of Schumann's in Munich. He is the author of Schumann's Bar Book and Schumann's Tropical Bar Book.