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www.cheersonline.com 35 July/August 2016 • PRETTY FLY FOR A MAI TAI By Mitchell Beazley Octopus Books, April 2016 Hardcover: 160 pages $12.99 What goes better than music and booze? This book combines rock 'n' roll and mixology into The Rocktail: "A rock-based cocktail, guzzled while listening to classic rock." Side A gives you a quick overview of the basics—glassware, equipment, techniques and spirits—and a selection of Old Time Rock 'n' Roll classics such as Jumpin' Jack Splash and Jailhouse on the Rocks. Side B moves on to the modern age, with cocktails such as Rum As You Are, Eggnoggin' on Heaven's Door and Should I Stay or Mojito. Pretty Fly for a Mai Tai offers 75 cocktail recipes accompanied by illustrations; there is even a discography at the back. 101 COCKTAILS TO TRY BEFORE YOU DIE By Francois Monti Cassell, July 2016 Hardcover: 224 pages $12.99 Brought together in one guide are the author's take on the top 101 cocktails to try while you're still alive. These range from the classics such as the Old Fashioned, Manhattan and Vesper, to the less-well-known Scoffl aw, Irish Mermaid and Bramble. This book takes readers on a tour through history's most famous and infamous cocktails. Each entry comes with a detailed background, anecdotes and a list of ingredients—as well as retellings of cocktail myths and legends. Author Francois Monti is a Madrid-based journalist specializing in drinks and cocktails. He is the author of a number of books, including Prohibitions, and writes the blog Bottoms Up. REMIXOLOGY: CLASSIC COCKTAILS RECONSIDERED AND REINVENTED By Michael Turback & Julia Hastings-Black Skyhorse Publishing, March 2016 Hardcover: 208 pages $17.99 This book is a celebration of time-honored cocktails, the evolution of their formulas, and the inspiration they provide for today's craft bartenders. The recipe collection serves as a re-introduction to 10 iconic potions: from the Manhattan to the Whiskey Sour to the Bloody Mary and more. It explores the drink's progression and development in cocktail culture. Each section introduces a standard cocktail, offers details and insights about its genealogy, then follows with more than a dozen adaptations and variations. Recipes include reimagined classics such as the Earl Grey Old Fashioned, Jamaican Coffee and Drifter's Daiquiri. A GLASS FULL OF MIRACLES By Miljenko "Mike" Grgich Violetta Press, April 2016 Hardcover: 418 pages $40 This is the memoir of Napa Valley icon Miljenko "Mike" Grgich, president/winemaker of Rutherford, CA-based Grgich Hills Estate. It's the story of a young Croatian boy whose search for freedom and the chance to fulfi ll his American Dream led him through countless hardships to become one of the most revered winemakers in history. This year not only marks Mike Grgich's 93rd birthday, it's also the 40th anniversary of the famous Judgment of Paris. That's when a 1973 chardonnay crafted by Grgich for Chateau Montelena became the fi rst California chardonnay to win a French winemaking contest, putting the state's wines on the global map. SUMMER READING LIST / ON THE SHELF