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Dan Pucci is one of the nation's leading cider experts. He was the founding beverage director at Wassail, New York City's first cider bar and restaurant, and has since traveled the country in a continued pursuit of cider education, awareness, and research. He is a partner in Wallabout Hospitality, a New York City-based consulting and hospitality company. Craig Cavallo lived in New York City for thirteen years, working in restaurants, blogging about food trends, and writing for Saveur. His work has been published in Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, New York magazine's Grub Street, Thrillist, and Vice Munchies. He left New York City for the Hudson Valley, and when he's not at Golden Russet Cafe & Grocery, the cafe that he owns and operates with his wife, Jenny, he can be found picking fenceline apples and dabbling in his own cellar cider experiments.
For years, American craft cider has been one of the most dynamic players on the contemporary beverage scene, a delicious and distinctive drink seemingly appearing from nowhere, but as Dan Pucci and Craig Cavallo show, cider and America have been deeply entwined for more than four hundred years. Until now, we've had only glimpses of this story, but American Cider puts it all together, weaving history, botany, anthropology, and insight into the first comprehensive account of what American cider is and how it got that way. This is an essential volume for anyone wishing to navigate the extraordinarily diverse landscape of contemporary cider, but it is much more than that. By tracing the human and natural forces at work over four centuries, Pucci and Cavallo provide a new context for understanding how America has shaped cider--and, in so doing, a new way for understanding America. --Rowan Jacobsen, author of Apples of Uncommon Character and A Geography of Oysters Whenever I've had questions about cider, Dan Pucci has long been my first stop for expertise. Now he can be everyone's go-to expert, thanks to this thorough, comprehensive guide on ciders and the apples used to make them.--Kara Newman, author of Cocktails with a Twist and spirits editor, Wine Enthusiast magazine American Cider is a deeply researched road map to modern cider's revival, reminding readers why well-made cider should always be the apple of drinkers' eyes. All too often, cider is seen as the sugary stuff that's sold by the juice box. Cider evangelists Pucci and Cavallo take readers on a centuries-spanning journey from colonial America's historic orchards to today's visionary makers who are spearheading the juiced-up cider revival. After reading American Cider, you'll never eye an apple the same way again. --Joshua M. Bernstein, author of The Complete Beer Course and Drink Better Beer
