The Martini: Perfection in a Glass

Sophisticated, evocative, and delicious, the martini will never go out of style. Appearing in countless moviesfor example, any one of the Bond filmsits one of the most popular and well-known cocktails of all time. Making a martini is simplicity personified, the classic recipe requiring just two ingredients (not counting the garnish): gin and vermouth. And now man-about-town Matt Hranek is here to tell us everything we need to know about the iconic cocktail. Like Hraneks The Negroni, The Martini will give readers insight into the drinks nineteenth-century-origins, as well as the tools for making 35 simple variations of the drinka combination of recipes from the author, recipes from experts/bartenders around the world, and iconic versions that any martini fanatic needs to have on hand.