30 DAYS OPEN PURCHASEDeath & Co opened on New Year's Eve 2006 on East 6th Street in the East Village and is now one of the most copied bars in the world, with offshoots in Denver, Los Angeles and Washington.
The book was published in 2014, won a James Beard Award the following year and contains around 500 cocktails, organised by base spirit with notes explaining why one particular variation was chosen over another.
The first part of the book is reference rather than recipes. Ice and why its shape matters, shaken versus stirred, glassware, garnishes, how a bar station should be set up and a guide to the different spirits. That section still holds up.
This is the book for anyone who already mixes drinks and wants breadth. If you would rather learn the system behind cocktails, Cocktail Codex from the same team was built specifically for that, around six fundamental recipes from which everything else is derived.
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 320
Language: English
First published: 2014
The Kitchen Lab Selection
Death & Co opened in the East Village in 2006 and became the bar the rest of the trade learned from. Those who worked there have since opened bars all over the world and taken the way of working with them, which is about as much influence as a single room can have.
The book is the house's own working material. The drinks that worked are here, but so is the reasoning behind them and a good deal about what did not hold up. It is unusual for a bar to hand over that part.
