Looking Back at "A Proper Drink" Six Years Later

The History Behind the Written History of the Cocktail Revival—Part 1.

Copies of the newly released A Proper Drink at the book launch party at Flatiron Lounge.

Tomorrow marks the six-year anniversary of the publication of A Proper Drink, my book-length history of the cocktail renaissance. It is the writing of which I am most proud, but also the hardest thing I have ever done. I have no problem with insomnia, because all I …