Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: An English major walks into a bar . . .
TOOLS Glassware Equipment TECHNIQUES Making a Drink Decorating a Drink TERMS Spirits Liqueurs Beer Wine Other Flavorings
PART ONE DRINKS FOR DAMES Are You There God? It’s Me, Margarita Bloody Carrie Brave New Swirled Bridget Jones’s Daiquiri A Cocktail of Two Cities The Cooler Purple Ethan Pom Frangelico and Zooey Gin Eyre Howards Blend The Joy of Sex on the Beach Love in the Time of Kahlúa A Midsummer Night’s Beam One Flew Over the Cosmo’s Nest Paradise Sauced The Postman Always Brings Ice Remembrance of Things Pabst Romeo and Julep A Rum of One’s Own Rye and Prejudice The S(ide)carlet Letter Tequila Mockingbird Turn of the Screwdriver Unbearable Lightness of Peeing The Yellow Wallbanger
PART TWO GULPS FOR GUYS Absinthe Shrugged A Confederacy of Ounces The Count of Monte Cristal Crime and Punish-mint Decline and Fall Down Drankenstein A Farewell to Amaretto Gulp-iver’s Travels Heart of Dark Mist Huckleberry Sin Infinite Zest The Last of the Mojitos The Lime of the Ancient Mariner Lord of the Mai-Tais Lord Pimm Malted Falcon Moby-Drink The Moonshine and Sixpence The Old Man and the Seagram’s One Hundred Beers of Solitude Orange Julius Caesar Silas Marnier The Sound and the Slurry Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Breeze Vermouth the Bell Tolls
PART THREE BEVVIES FOR BOOK CLUB Fahrenheit 151
Gone with the Wine The Adventures of Sherbet Holmes The Joy Luck Club Soda The Pitcher of Dorian Grey Goose The Portrait of a Pink Lady The Rye in the Catcher
PART FOUR REFRESHMENTS FOR RECOVERING READERS Cherry Poppins Charlie and the Chocolate Fake-tini Pat the Tummy Pear the Wild Things Are The Phantom Tolljuice Rip Van Drinkle White Tang The Wonderful Blizzard of Oz PART FIVE BAR BITES FOR BOOK HOUNDS Alice’s Adventures in Wonder Bread Berry Potter The Deviled Egg Wears Prada Fear of Frying I Know This Munch is True Olives ’n’ Twist Pizza and Wendy Prawn Quixote
BONUS!
GAMES FOR GEEKS Drinking All By Your Lonesome Drinking with Friends Formulas for Metric Conversion Acknowledgments Index
