A handsome and comprehensive bartending guide for professional and home bartenders that includes history, lore, and 150 recipes, The Essential Bar Book  is full of indispensable information about everything boozy that’s good to drink. This easy-to-navigate A-to-Z guide covers it all, from the tools of the trade to the history and mythology behind classic and modern drinks, and features 115 recipes for the world’s most important cocktails.

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Satan’s Whiskers

Serves one

Despite the titillating name, this classic 1930s-era cocktail runs relatively tame. First recorded in Harry Craddock’s Savoy Cocktail Book , the recipe calls for equal parts gin and dry and sweet vermouths dressed up with a sunny dose of citrus in the form of Grand Marnier, orange juice, and orange bitters. A variation using curaçao instead of Grand Marnier is described as “curled” as opposed to “straight.”

Ingredients:

1/2 ounce gin
1/2 ounce sweet vermouth
1/2 ounce dry vermouth
1/4 ounce Grand Marnier or orange curaçao
1/2 ounce fresh orange juice
3 dashes orange bitters

Garnish: orange peel

Glassware: cocktail or coupe

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a chilled cocktail or coupe glass. Garnish with an orange peel.

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A contributing editor to  Wine Spectator, Jennifer Fiedler writes WineSpectator.com’s biweekly food and wine pairing column 8 & $20 and covers wine collecting, auctions, Q&As, and design for the magazine. She was a co-author of  Brooklyn Beer Shop’s Beer Making Book , and has a degree in English from Yale University and a Grande Diplome from the French Culinary Institute in New York City.