Books Club Cocktail Culture 
VinePair
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Her acclaimed, James Beard Award-winning cookbook, “Jubilee” (2019) started a conversation about African American culinary history, and her new cocktail book, “ Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice ,” continues this journey through the lens of drinks and the Black bartenders who have helped pave the nation’s cocktail culture.
Tales of the Cocktail
APRIL 15, 2025
West Co-Chairs: Erin Shaeferle Mary Allison Wright Writing & Media Co-Chairs: Erick Castro Emma Janzen Books Chair: Anna Sulan Masing Timeless Co-Chairs: Franois Monti Rebecca Sturt To learn more about the Spirited Awards Committee and awards criteria, please visit the Tales of the Cocktail Foundations Spirited Awards page.
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Tales of the Cocktail
MAY 22, 2025
Bartender of the Year Presented by Pernod Ricard Michael Aredes Superbueno, New York, NY Erika Flowers Compre Lapin, New Orleans, LA McLain Hedges Yacht Club, Denver, CO Andra “AJ” Johnson Serenata, Washington, D.C. Nominees (in alphabetical order): U.S. Categories U.S. Restaurant Bar Amazonia Washington D.C.
Drinkhacker
JANUARY 4, 2024
A trip to London means plenty of time in pubs, but like any big city, London has a thriving cocktail culture, too. A recent visit here took me to two upscale cocktail bars to sample the city’s latest in drinkdom. Plenty of imbibers were happy to sip on wine or beer in lieu of the more adventuresome cocktails on tap.
VinePair
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Either way, there’s no denying that Luxardo has ingrained itself in modern cocktail culture with a single stone fruit. There, he reconnected with a colleague who had saved the Luxardo recipe book, and used these limited resources to rebuild and reestablish the distillery in the small city of Torreglia in 1946.
VinePair
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
“The only information you were getting was in English, and all the whiskey books around were all about Scotch,” he says. “I I thought there could be a room for a book on American whiskey, written in German.” I think if someone would go more to the American style, that would be rye.”
VinePair
APRIL 3, 2024
The early wave of modern Tokyo cocktail bars defined the distinctive style of drink preparation and service known as Japanese bartending — and the type of establishments in which it could be found — while pushing forward the idea of a thriving cocktail culture from within an Asian metropolis. Nor should they. “To
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