"A delightful, imaginative, and thoroughly original cocktail compendium and bartending manual with 90 drink recipes from the world-famous Brooklyn bar and restaurant. Maison Premiere is one of the country's most popular and influential bars, and has been a major player in both the craft cocktail revival and the bar and restaurant renaissance in New York City. Revered for its extravagant cocktails and immersive design, a visit to Maison Premiere is an experience that channels a time when cocktails were not merely a pleasure, but an essential part of daily life in late nineteenth century New York, New Orleans, and Paris. As captivating as the bar itself, The Maison Premiere Almanac is both a visual delight-drawing on photography, illustration, and graphic design-and a detailed guide to the rarefied subjects that make Maison Premiere unique, including deep explorations into the art of the cocktail and cutting-edge bartending techniques and equipment. There are also primers on absinthe (another Maison specialty), and recipes for highly refined cocktails, included among them martinis, toddys, punches, and mint juleps. Tutorials on oysters include how to confidently select and prepare them at home and how to eat them with style. And while packed with curious information and useful knowledge on cocktails and bartending for both enthusiastic beginner bartenders and seasoned cocktail lovers, the Almanac is also a visually arresting objet d'art that will make a perfect addition to any bookshelf"--