Maritime history has many chapters and rum-running is among them. This captivating story is now told in a new textbook for high school students.
Wow!! Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s new book, Remixed, is so cool that it has its own slick Hollywood-style trailer. Watch it.
David Embury’s classic drinks manuel is available in hard back once again (actually, since 2008.) This is pre-Prohibition mixology at its best.
History, etiquette, technique and instruction – As one of the definitive cocktail books, Gary Regan’s The Joy of Mixology covers every base. Get it!
Part of a series of reprinted bartending manuals, Bar La Florida Cocktails will help you discover the libations of one of Havana’s legendary watering holes.
Looking for inspiration? Looking to be entertained? Pick up a copy of Dale DeGroff’s Craft of the Cocktail. It’s still one of the best manuals available.
Looking for quality cocktail recipes and all around good reading? Dr. Bamboo recommends the new edition of Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails.
Written in 1949, Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts will teach you to plan a cool party, invite the right people, prepare the best food and drink and recover in style.
Four well-known journalists and booze advocates collaborate on a new book about rum, it’s history and how Cuba played a role in it’s global success.
The undisputed king of bar guides just got a little better. Mr. Boston releases a Platinum Edition with even more cocktail mojo!
A Canadian couple cruise the Caribbean and find adventure, friendship and good spirits in the process. Ed Hamilton makes a brief guest appearance in this one.
…presents a wonderful collection of photos from the Bajan rum shop culture. This book is another “must have” for any self respecting rummy.
Give your rum loving friends a subscription to Imbibe Magazine this holiday. For $20 ($40 international) they’ll get an entire year of the latest booze news.
“Professor” Jerry Thomas wrote and published the definitive drinks book back in 1862. Art of Drink has resurrected this masterpiece for free online viewing.
If a book about liquor could ever be a page-turner, this is it! Ian Williams from the Nation Magazine tells the long, strange story of rum.
