Bury the Lede: A Cocktail Book
About this book
This is a book of bespoke drink recipes named after and inspired by the songs on Bury the Lede, the full-length album by Dessa. Some of the recipes can be mixed and served swiftly; others are built in stages for maximum dramatic effect. This slender volume contains not only clever recipes ranging from simple batched cocktails to color- changing showstoppers, designed by beverage maverick Marco Zappia (who makes “the most fun cocktails in America” —Esquire). It’s also a collection of little essays on the strange and interesting ways that artists collaborate, and it offers a bit of insight into the science that sits beneath the surface of every mixed drink. You will find the intrigue of secret recipes guarded by friars; the methods that bartenders use to mix drinks by ear as the temperature affects the pitch of clattering ice; and the alchemic combinations of ideas that emerge from people sharing something strong late at night.