Cocktails Made Easy

Recipes=Good, Format=Bad
March 30, 2010

This book has literally hundreds of cocktail recipes based on a relatively small number of core ingredients that are well detailed in the first chunk of the book. The ten or fifteen drink recipes that my husband and I have tried have all been at least palatable and usually quite tasty, and we've barely scratched the surface. However, the book fails to really function as a useful reference due to its complete lack of a table of contents or index. The drinks are organized alphabetically rather than by, say, primary ingredient or type--so good luck finding that drink you made two weeks ago again if you don't remember its name, and expect see related cocktails such as martinis, margarita variations, etc. scattered quote broadly throughout the book. There are also numerous lapses in spelling, missing punctuation, and other mechanics so if that sort of thing bothers you, expect to be bothered. All in all, this book is great for paging through to get ideas for drinks--but pretty worthless as a practical behind-the-bar manual.

Reviewer: V.v.