Cocktail marketers and male bartenders like to tell women what we want to drinkand it’s usually fruity, frilly, fancy, and pink.
InDrink Like a Woman,Jeanette Hurt shakes up barroom expectations, stirs up some new ideas, and pours a lively collection of feminist cocktails that are just as varied, flavorful, and strong as women are.
Sharing basic techniques, cocktail classics, hangover cures, drinking games, and more, this spirited guide takes the misogyny out of mixology by offering fun and functional tips for the at-home barista who doesn’t need a man to mix it up. She also exposes the surprisingly sexist history of cocktail culture, and offers more than 50 recipes, crafted by top women bartenders around the country, including:
Anarchy Amaretto
Bloody Mary Richards
Nelly Bly-Tai
The LBD (The Little Black Dress)
Ruth’s Pink Taboo
WoManhattan
Zeldatini
The Suffragette Sour
Ride, Sally Ride
Curie Royale
With feisty illustrations and original recipes that call for a generous splash of female empowerment,Drink Like a Womanis sure to subvert the patriarchy, one drink at a time.
Some of the cocktails included inDrink Like a Woman:
Bloody Mary Richards
Zeldatini
T’Kahlo Sunrise
Nelly Bly-Tai
The Little Black Dress or the LBD
Curie Royale
Ride, Sally Ride
The Suffragette Sour
The WoManhattan
The Felix Fixer (in honor of the awful Supreme Court justice)
The Equalizer
The Bronte Sisters
In the House (a woman’s place is in the house
and Senate, too)
Kissed by a Wookie
Ruth’s Pink Taboo
Jeanette Hurt gets the most important thing 100% right at the very start ofDrink Like A Woman: 'There are no girly drinks.' She then proves it with a trove of cocktails, tweaked with her own woman's touch, that need no mansplaining.”
Lew Bryson, author ofTastinlCM