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Alice Lascelles is an award-winning journalist, author, presenter and drinks expert. She writes a popular column in the Financial Times covering cocktails, wine and spirits and can also often be found talking about drinks on BBC Radio 4 programmes including The Kitchen Cabinet and on the TV. Her definitive guide for the home bartender, The Cocktail Edit (2022), was named a ‘Book of the Year’ by The Times, The Financial Times, The Telegraph and Esquire. She is also a former winner of Fortnum & Mason’s Drinks Writer of the Year.& When she is not writing, Alice has a second life as a musician which has included touring with the White Stripes and releasing an album under the name Alice Gun. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.
""Positively paradigmatic…The writing is crisply clever but, at the same time, so warmly engaging and witty…the photography is rapturously beautiful. I absolutely love this book."" -- Nigella Lawson Positively paradigmatic…The writing is crisply clever but, at the same time, so warmly engaging and witty…the photography is rapturously beautiful. I absolutely love this book. ‘I could say a Martini requires nothing more… yet Alice improves it with wit and rigour.’ ‘I could say a Martini requires nothing more… yet Alice improves it with wit and rigour.’ -- Tim Hayward ‘A gorgeous portrait of the king of cocktails! Alice Lascelles has created an irresistible immersion into the Martini, charting its evolution in stories and recipes, up to the best modern classics found around the world.’ ‘A gorgeous portrait of the king of cocktails! Alice Lascelles has created an irresistible immersion into the Martini, charting its evolution in stories and recipes, up to the best modern classics found around the world.’ -- Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown, Mixellany Limited ‘Alice has fine taste and is always meticulously researched so it makes me very happy to have her thoughts on vital matters such as Martini proportions, garnishes and which gin in this slim and perfect volume.’ -- Victoria Moore ‘Alice has fine taste and is always meticulously researched so it makes me very happy to have her thoughts on vital matters such as Martini proportions, garnishes and which gin in this slim and perfect volume.’ ‘As a lover of the longer drink, Alice has done the impossible – made me utterly fascinated and inquisitive about one of the shortest, most intense of cocktails. Everything about this book – the writing, the recipes, the photography, the love of life – is completely beguiling. A delight.’ -- Mark Diacono ‘As a lover of the longer drink, Alice has done the impossible – made me utterly fascinated and inquisitive about one of the shortest, most intense of cocktails. Everything about this book – the writing, the recipes, the photography, the love of life – is completely beguiling. A delight.’ ‘Get to know your Martini. If you want to shake it, go right ahead! If you prefer it with a splash of bitters and a twist of Amalfi lemon, then enjoy. Many of these variations may not fit the mould of what's classically thought to be a Martini, but if you love it a certain way, that's what makes it the most memorable and perfect drink of all.’ -- Alessandro Palazzi, Dukes bar manager ‘Get to know your Martini. If you want to shake it, go right ahead! If you prefer it with a splash of bitters and a twist of Amalfi lemon, then enjoy. Many of these variations may not fit the mould of what's classically thought to be a Martini, but if you love it a certain way, that's what makes it the most memorable and perfect drink of all.’ 'When it's Martini Hour, you need a guide and there is no one better than Alice Lascelles.' -- Jay Rayner 'When it's Martini Hour, you need a guide and there is no one better than Alice Lascelles.' ‘Alice Lascelles has written a very apt book about the martini – it is crisp, elegant and dangerously seductive.’ ‘Alice Lascelles has written a very apt book about the martini – it is crisp, elegant and dangerously seductive.’ -- Niki Segnit
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