Spritz
Italy's Most Iconic Aperitivo Cocktail, with Recipes
(Sprache: Englisch)
A narrative-driven book on the surprising history and current revival of spritz cocktails (a wine-based drink served as an aperitif), with 50 recipes, including both historical classics and modern updates.
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A narrative-driven book on the surprising history and current revival of spritz cocktails (a wine-based drink served as an aperitif), with 50 recipes, including both historical classics and modern updates.
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IntroductionThe Italian word sprezzatura doesn t have an English translation. Coined in the early sixteenth century by Renaissance author Baldassare Castiglione in his Book of the Courtier (1528), sprezzatura implied the sort of effortless grace that royal attendants of that gilded era embodied. For Castiglione, sprezzatura was a definitive pillar of true art to work so hard at something that its beauty, to the beholder, appeared easy, agile, blithe. It was, in essence, the art of concealing
art s design.
Today the word has taken on a more colloquial meaning. It s often tossed around in menswear publications in reference to details of rakish sophistication imperfectly folded pocket squares, oxfords worn without socks, the perfect five o clock stubble. Although the spritz and sprezzatura are not officailly related, it s this I-woke-up-like-this mix of beauty and ease that perhaps best describes the drink.
This would, admittedly, be the perfect place to tell the story of our respective first spritzes, but neither of us can remember when we met the Technicolor dreamboat for the first time. It was likely during our formative drinking years, on one of a couple trips to Italy in the mid-2000s, wherein the spritz was likely shoved into an evening that very well could ve included everything from red wine to lighter fluid (not really, but practically) hence the foggy memory.
We do, however, remember when the drink became a part of our everyday routines, about three summers ago. Little did we know that this frivolous cocktail, seemingly built to be tossed back with abandon, had such a backstory.
While the proto-spritz can be traced back to Greek and Roman times, the modern spritz has its roots the Italian mythos goes in Hapsburg-occupied northern Italy in the nineteenth century, when Austrian soldiers introduced the practice of adding a spritz (spray) of water to the region s wines, in an effort to make them more pleasing to their
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Riesling-weaned palates. The drink went through a number of iterations, first with the inclusion of soda water at the turn of the nineteenth century, then the addition of the all-important bitter element (which made it both undeniably Italian and a proper cocktail) in the 1920s and early 1930s, and finally the widespread addition of prosecco in the 1990s. Today, the spritz archetype is more or less a combination of three parts prosecco, two parts bitter liquer, and one part soda. And thanks to Aperol, it s now Italy s most popular cocktail.
But more than just the ideal combination of bubbles and bitterness in a low-alcohol package, the spritz has become a window into understanding not only the evolution of Italian cocktail culture
but also the importance of ritual and leisure to Italian identity.
In America, our homegrown cultural reference point for the spritz (or spritzer, as ladies of a certain generation might refer to it) is a less enchanted one. It s a word that, for decades, was synonymous with perms, thong leotards, Richard Simmons, salad bars, and blush wine. Born as a half-hearted diet fad in the 1980s, the white wine spritzer was the softer sister of the vodka-soda a monument to the era that oversaw the slow death of sophisticated flavors (and, simultaneously, many overwrought attempts at the opposite). But the current cocktail renaissance has left no stone unturned.
Now, in place of the spritzer, there are countless riffs on the bitter, bubbly, low-alcohol formula that has become nothing short of a phenomenon in Italy. But in true American fashion, the drink s blueprint has birthed an entire category of new drinks here, from those that swap in lambrusco for prosecco, tonic for soda water, sherry for white wine, and shrubs for fresh fruit. And though not
But more than just the ideal combination of bubbles and bitterness in a low-alcohol package, the spritz has become a window into understanding not only the evolution of Italian cocktail culture
but also the importance of ritual and leisure to Italian identity.
In America, our homegrown cultural reference point for the spritz (or spritzer, as ladies of a certain generation might refer to it) is a less enchanted one. It s a word that, for decades, was synonymous with perms, thong leotards, Richard Simmons, salad bars, and blush wine. Born as a half-hearted diet fad in the 1980s, the white wine spritzer was the softer sister of the vodka-soda a monument to the era that oversaw the slow death of sophisticated flavors (and, simultaneously, many overwrought attempts at the opposite). But the current cocktail renaissance has left no stone unturned.
Now, in place of the spritzer, there are countless riffs on the bitter, bubbly, low-alcohol formula that has become nothing short of a phenomenon in Italy. But in true American fashion, the drink s blueprint has birthed an entire category of new drinks here, from those that swap in lambrusco for prosecco, tonic for soda water, sherry for white wine, and shrubs for fresh fruit. And though not
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Spritz “
vi • drinks 1 • introduction
7 • A Spritz is Born
23 • The Spritz Life
37 • Spritz Cocktails
54 • Classic
64 • Modern
96 • Cousins
129 • the Aperitivo table
158 • acknowledgments
159 • where to spritz
162 • index
Autoren-Porträt von Talia Baiocchi, Leslie Pariseau, Editors of PUNCH
Talia Baiocchi, Leslie Pariseau, and Editors of Punch
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Talia Baiocchi , Leslie Pariseau , Editors of PUNCH
- 2016, 176 Seiten, Masse: 14,6 x 21,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Ten Speed Press
- ISBN-10: 1607748851
- ISBN-13: 9781607748854
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
2017 JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION BOOK AWARD NOMINEE: BEVERAGESome of the most pleasant hours I ve ever spent have involved sipping spritzes, nibbling from little bowls of olives or potato chips or whatnot, and watching the life of whatever Italian town I m in go by as the waiter lazily circles around to see if I d like another. Spritz is the perfect introduction to that unique culture.
David Wondrich, author of Imbibe! and Punch
These brilliantly illustrated pages deliver a supremely approachable account of the spritz while unveiling the deeper meaning of the drink one that flows far beyond its flirty fizz. Spritz offers a beautifully rendered portrait of an iconic cocktail, an indispensable guide for channeling the spirit of Italian cocktail culture at home, and a drop-dead gorgeous visual experience.
Katie Parla, co-author of Tasting Rome
The book is compact (it would live nicely atop a crowded bar cart), beautifully illustrated, and filled with anecdotes and recipes for classic takes as well as more modern iterations from top bartenders.
Vanity Fair
Talia Baiocchi and Leslie Pariseau's extensively researched history of the cocktail comes with enough spritz spins to make it through every beautiful day of the year, plus recipes for the food to match with them, like mondechili, the country-style meatballs found in northern Italy.
Saveur
the authors make an excellent case for the chic, Italian-style cocktail bubbly, low in alcohol, and with an edge of bitterness, it's ideal for sipping in the golden hour before dinner."
Bloomberg
The beautiful tome explores the history of the classic cocktail and provides 50 different recipes for drinks and snacks to try at home. Each recipes sits beside a full color photograph and elegantly chosen typography.
Mental Floss
"Talia Baiocchi and Leslie Pariseau s Spritz: Italy s Most
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Iconic Aperitivo Cocktail, With Recipes is a compact volume that touches deftly on drink history and throws in a dash of travelogue. But it is built around the recipes, which suggest that with just a few building blocks ingenuity can flow and flavors blossom."
Wall Street Journal
"This saucy beauty of a book manages to capture the easy chic of modern Italian life and the delicious simplicity of spritzing."
Food Republic
"Beautifully designed, small enough to slip into a tiny tote bag, and full of 50 recipes for both drinks and snacks to nibble on while sipping, this book is as refreshing as its namesake drink: Italy s iconic spritz."
Saveur
"... smart, fun to read and look at and unquestionably approachable."
New York Observer
Wall Street Journal
"This saucy beauty of a book manages to capture the easy chic of modern Italian life and the delicious simplicity of spritzing."
Food Republic
"Beautifully designed, small enough to slip into a tiny tote bag, and full of 50 recipes for both drinks and snacks to nibble on while sipping, this book is as refreshing as its namesake drink: Italy s iconic spritz."
Saveur
"... smart, fun to read and look at and unquestionably approachable."
New York Observer
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