“An English major walks into a bar….”
Today’s book isn’t the usual work of fiction I love. Instead, I got a present for my birthday which I love just as much: Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist. This collection of recipes carries the theme of “cocktail book for the literary obsessed” from the dedication: “For Brenda … – worth her weight in Cuervo Gold” to the Acknowledgements (“Loud, slurring thanks to my first readers and drinkers.”)
This book is for anyone who actually read all the way through the classics we were assigned in ninth grade (except for Moby Dick, who could get through that) or the introverts whose idea of a good time is a good book, and something to munch on. It’s for all the book nerds. Make that the mixologist nerds too.
Every cocktail recipe celebrates a book. Choose your favorite poison; Author Tim Federle, a former Broadway actor, found a literary allusion for it. Is it five o’clock somewhere? Have an Are You There God? It’s Me, Margarita. Love the juniper in gin? Enjoy a Gin Ayre. For something sweet, try Love in the Time of Kahlua.
Perfect for Christmas!
Ever since I started stocking a bar cart during Covid-times (no bread-baking for me, no sir) I’ve had lovely bottles of spirits sitting around on display. Now I can invite the Book Club over and make “The Pitcher of Dorian Grey Goose” and facilitate the most convivial book discussion ever!
Notes from Aunt Gem 