The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Explaining and exploring the structures, flavour profiles and techniques used in cockatils, Zoe helps you understand why cocktails work, looking at the five basic tastes and other elements, including the flavour profiles of key spirits. She pulls apart classic recipes to explore their structure and explains why certain ingredients work together. Understanding these elements allows you to understand and build on your personal taste preferences, opening up a vast palette of options – including those of your own creation. The second part puts that knowledge into practice, with more than 80 recipes for drinks organised by cocktail type. In each chapter Zoe builds on the basic recipe, layering on additional ingredients and variations to ensure you go on the journey of exploration with her, and get under the skin of how the cocktails are built.