The Bartender's Pantry

Thank you to Wilder Davies (@okappliances ) Joey Hernandez (@joeybear85 ) and @bonappetitmag for including The Bartender’s Pantry in this editor’s round up of The Best Cocktail Books - alongside some truly legendary selections too! 🤩 Link to the full piece in bio

Celebrating today at @longmanandeagle 12pm-2pm!!! Signed books for sale, prints from @struggle_inc , cocktails from the book!

The Bartender’s Pantry is the 2025 @tales_of_the_cocktail #SpiritedAwards Winner for Best New Cocktail or Bartending book! We are honored. Thank you again to all who contributed so generously with their time and talents and knowledge in making this book, and cheers to all the night’s winners!

Excited to share The Bartender’s Pantry is now available at @sidmashburn and was recently featured in their ‘Gift Edit’ holiday email. Sid and Ann Mashburn are absolute legends of contemporary men’s and women’s clothing and tailoring. Starting in Atlanta, their beautiful stores now span the country offering a level of hospitality rarely found in the industry. We are honored to be included amongst their incredible clothes and highly curated wares!

Wednesday 10/1 @cheekys_net // 5pm-7pm // Join @bartsasso for a Book Signing and Cocktail Party featuring drinks from the book and his restaurant @ticonderogaclub ! Free to attend, books for purchase, live music!

We’ve arrived in New Orleans for our @tales_of_the_cocktail book signings on Wednesday and @mixography ’s event with @slowdrinks on Thursday and thought sharing @kingcocktl ’s Café Brulôt, a classic New Orleans cocktail, felt apropos. Chickory is part of the story of coffee in America and a staple blend we cover in the chapter. The final multi serving cocktail is magnificent, especially when served with @kingcocktl ’s custom bowl and fork set created with @cocktailkingdom - perfect for enthusiasts looking to impress while entertaining. While space limitations, and the recipe’s complexity, ultimately prevented Café Brulôt from being included, it was incredibly fun to make and shoot with @ajmeeker and we’re happy to finally share!

Second Edition of our @bartenderpantry Fruit Sticker Sheet! We’ll have these and more for giveaway at @tales_of_the_cocktail this week. Looking forward to seeing everyone. See previous post for details on our two book signings.

Wednesday 7/23 @tales_of_the_cocktail // 11:30am-12:30pm & 1:30pm-2:30pm // @octaviabooks is hosting a ‘Shots of Inspiration’ book signing in the @ritzcarltonneworleans lobby with co-authors @mixography , @emmajanzen , and @bartsasso ! Looking forward to seeing everyone there, and at the #SpiritedAwards2025 where @bartenderpantry is a finalist!

The Bartender’s Pantry is a Top 4 Finalist for the @tales_of_the_cocktail 2025 Spirited Awards! 🍾 Congrats to all the finalists and looking forward to everyone in NOLA!

SUN 6/15 // 12pm-2pm at @longmanandeagle OSB // @landandseadeptartdept hosts a @bartenderpantry signing and meet & greet with @mixography @emmajanzen and @bartsasso in celebration of @beardfoundation awards weekend! • We’ll have a limited number of books on hand for purchase, or bring your own. First come first serve prints of the 🔥 event poster by @struggle_inc . Free to attend, with a cash bar featuring a cocktail from the book. • Endless gratitude to @struggle_inc for making this happen, and all your support over the years. ☮️ 🙏

Chuffed to see The Bartender’s Pantry on the shortlist for the 2025 James Beard Foundation media awards. I know Jim, Bart, and I left everything on the table in the process of making this the best work it could be, so it’s a real honor to be recognized. And it’s especially wonderful to see our humble handbook listed alongside such amazing company: Congrats also to @nicola.nice , @drinksat6 , @ivymix and @mdkrigbaum on making the final cut! This nomination means a lot, in part because our goal was to break the typical cocktail recipe book model. It’s not just a book of delicious drinks, but rather an invitation to look at commonly used cocktail ingredients through a lens typically only applied to foodways scholarship. Our hope is that by educating readers about the social, political, agricultural, and cultural origins of the ingredients used to make drinks, and the systems that conspire to bring them to the glass, readers will walk away with a newfound respect and appreciation for the land and people who grow, harvest, process, and prepare beverages of all kinds. Our goal was to include as many voices and perspectives as possible; we interviewed a broad collection of experts and referenced more than one hundred books and articles to give readers a comprehensive contemporary overview of each ingredient. We also encourage readers to be respectful of the origins of each recipe and lean into building relationships with experts, producers, purveyors, guests, and other readers to ultimately cultivate communities that stretch beyond the insulated cocktail scene. We believe that by taking a Slow Food approach to cocktails—eschewing the idea that they should be cheap, fast, and easy to make—the drinks world might become a more inclusive, community-centric place. The book’s subtitle, “A Beverage Handbook for the Universal Bar,” gestures towards this vision. Anyway, I’ll leave it brief for now and say that we’re just absolutely thrilled for this recognition. Thanks so much to the Ten Speed Press team (@mollyabirnbaum you’re the best!!) for making this book a reality, and to all of the Beard Foundation voters!! We’ll see y’all in Chicago!

@foodandwine April 2025 “Drinks Issue” is on newsstands now with a 12 PAGE FEATURE (!) inspired by, and utilizing recipes from, @bartenderpantry . Head to @mixography for more on how the feature came to be and keep reading for a synopsis… • To emphasize the book’s assertion that making drinks is cooking, @bitbyafox and @lucynashsimon broke down the (constructed) boundary by having the @foodandwine test kitchen team use recipes from the book in their cooking. The test kitchen cooks used @nealbodie ’s raspberry shrub recipe to make a salad vinaigrette, my blueberry infused gin to make a pork tenderloin sauce, and the @ticonderogaclub pineapple cordial to make a chicken stir fry. Their creations are captured in full page glory by @protazio . • Thank you to everyone that worked so hard on this incredibly generous and beautiful piece!