The Book of Cocktail Ratios

“Ruhlman’s writing is funny, engaging, extremely informative, and is peppered with a ton of great info... The Book of Cocktail Ratios is a home bar essential, and overall, an extremely interesting book offering a deep grasp of the basics of a ton of classic cocktails. It will leave you feeling empowered to pull them out of your pocket at any moment, or to work to come up with your own interesting variations.” —Vice “If memorizing dozens of cocktail recipes seems a daunting task, do not fear! In The Book of Cocktail Ratios, Michael Ruhlman distills dozens of classic drinks to their basics and shows us that by learning five simple formulas and a few techniques, you can simultaneously simplify your thinking of cocktails while vastly expanding your repertoire. It’s as essential to the home bartender as his book Ratio was to home cooks.” —J. Kenji López-Alt, author of Food Lab “Once again, Michael Ruhlman brings order and reason to a culinary realm once ruled by confusion, and madness. The Book of Cocktail Ratios is the cocktail book most of us never knew we needed.” —Alton Brown, author of Good Eats “Michael Ruhlman is wickedly smart, engaging and eternally curious, sure in his opinions but not too dogmatic to learn. The same holds true for this book: it's so pleasantly conversational; so easy to get sucked into, that it almost makes you forget how unfailingly useful and instructive it is.” —David Wondrich, Editor in Chief, Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails “Like much of what Michael has written, it makes other books on the subject redundant. Filled with history, information and great recipes, it will definitely improve your parties.” —Ruth Reichl “Leave it to Ruhlman, a relentlessly helpful and smart food writer, to give us a relentlessly smart and helpful primer for cocktails.” —Esquire