Spirited: How to Create Easy, Fun Drinks at Home

Explore the exhilarating world of drinks from a fresh perspective.

Signe Johansen, long-time whisky enthusiast, author and food writer, presents fifty well-crafted cocktail recipes, all fuelled by a cook's palate and a love of creative ingredients. The recipes play with a wide range of flavours such as fresh, floral, herbal and spicy notes and encourage you to think like a cook not a bartender. With chapters on drambling (the joy of winter walks and whisky), creative and delicious drinks to serve at gatherings, warming nightcaps and non-alcoholic 'soothies' to calm an ailing spirit, there is a tipple here for every occasion. There is also collection of recipes called Cupboard Cocktails - made from staple ingredients you may already have in your kitchen - and more ambitious Weekend Projects for gifts or special occasions.

Spirited makes a refreshing change to earnest mixologists' books about the 'art of the cocktail'. Instead, Signe celebrates the convivial and social experience of healthy hedonism and drinking together. This is a warm and inclusive companion to the subject, packed with trade secrets as well as stories and profiles of the most innovative figures working within the drinks industry today.