Editors of PUNCHWinter Drinks: 70 Essential Cold-Weather Cocktails

Not a bad recipe in the whole book! Beautiful pictures and easy to follow directions for tasty beverages that chase off the winter chill.

This is a pretty solid and attractive collection of cocktail recipes.It starts with a rundown of mixed drink families (cocktail, collins, highball, &c.) and words regarding some of the ingredients a mixer will need to fix the drinks, then dives into the recipes.The recipes themselves range from everyone-knows-how-to-mix-it classics, like the Old Fashioned, to cocktails that time forgot, like the spicy Alabazam, to new mixes made by today's popular bartenders and the editors of Punch. The nice thing about these recipes is that they include many suggestions alternative ingredients. How can you "winter-ify" your Manhattan? The book has ideas. Not all the drinks here are warm—though toddies and their kin are well represented—but all of them have a seasonal element (or seasonal element suggestion) to suit wintery imbibing.The photos are stylish and enticing. The text is easy to follow and informative. It really is a nice cocktail book and one I plan on referencing often.