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A collection of more than 80 wonderfully creative, fresh, and delicious cocktails that only require a bottle of your favorite spirit, plus fresh ingredients you can easily find at the market.In The One-Bottle Cocktail, Maggie Hoffman brings fancy drinking to the masses by making cocktails approachable enough for those with a tiny home bar. Conversational and authoritative, this book puts simple, delicious, and inventive drinks into your hands wherever you are, with ingredients you can easily source and no more than one spirit. Organized by spirit--vodka, gin, agave spirits, rum, brandy, and whiskey--each chapter offers fresh, eye-opening cocktails like the Garden Gnome (vodka, green tomato, basil, and lime) , Night of the Hunter (gin, figs, thyme, and grapefruit soda) , and the Bluest Chai (rye whiskey, chai tea, and balsamic vinegar) . These recipes won't break the bank, won't require an emergency run to the liquor store, and (best of all!) will delight cocktail lovers of all stripes.



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Maggie Hoffman

Maggie Hoffman is a cocktail expert and food and drink writer who focuses on making drinks more accessible to everyone who wants to entertain at home. She founded Serious Eats: Drinks, the cocktail, beer, and wine section of the James Beard Award-winning website Serious Eats in 2011, and served as the food site's managing editor for several years. In addition to regular contributions to Serious Eats, her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Wine Enthusiast, San Francisco Magazine, Taste, Punch, Supercall, SevenFifty Daily, and the websites of Saveur, Food & Wine, GQ, and Esquire. Maggie grew up in Portland, Oregon, and lives today in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and a hundred bottles of booze.



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