275 cocktails for lovers of Fernet-Branca and Branca Menta. Brancaphile is a bar book that evokes the golden age of mixology with clear no-fuss recipes, ranging from modern classics to contemporary serves from the world’s greatest bars and more than twenty delicious originals. An ingredient index is provided for easy reference.

That's Amaro is a collection of 550 cocktails exploring Italian amaro—Montenegro, Averna, Nonino, Braulio, Nardini and many others—a bar book that recalls the golden age of mixology, with clear, no-fuss recipes, ranging from modern classics to contemporary serves from the world’s greatest bars and ninety delicious originals. An ingredient index is provided for easy reference.

It was Italian immigrants who first carried bottles of Fernet-Branca to the United States in their suitcases, introducing the distinctly bitter digestivo to unexpecting palates. Although most Americans weren't sure what to make of it, Fernet became a rite of passage among bartenders. If a bartender poured a shot for a customer (usually another bartender) and another for themselves, it was called a "bartender's handshake." They began to recognize the spirit as eminently mixable, its bitter notes conspiring to balance sweetness, providing the energy or "bite" which causes a cocktail to sing, and informing many new mixed drinks. Offered here is an eclectic collection of 88 drink recipes crafted with Fernet-Branca, inspired by pre- and post-Prohibition classics to inventive notions developed in progressive cocktail programs. With this volume as trusted accomplice, the reader is invited to share in the sensory pleasures of Italy's legendary elixir.

The first cocktail book from the award-winning mixologist Masahiro Urushido of Katana Kitten in New York City, on the craft of Japanese cocktail making Katana Kitten, one of the world's most prominent and acclaimed Japanese cocktail bars, was opened in 2018 by highly-respected and award-winning mixologist Masahiro Urushido. Just one year later, the bar won 2019 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award for Best New American Cocktail Bar. Before Katana Kitten, Urushido honed his craft over several years behind the bar of award-winning eatery Saxon+Parole. In The Japanese Art of the Cocktail, Urushido shares his immense knowledge of Japanese cocktails with eighty recipes that best exemplify Japan's contribution to the cocktail scene, both from his own bar and from Japanese mixologists worldwide. Urushido delves into what exactly constitutes the Japanese approach to cocktails, and demystifies the techniques that have been handed down over generations, all captured in stunning photography.

“A very funny sendup of Italian-cooking-holiday-romance novels” (Publishers Weekly). Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions––including ice cream made with garlic and the bitter, herb-based liqueur known as Fernet Branca. But Gerald’s idyll is about to be shattered by the arrival of Marta, on the run from a crime-riddled former Soviet republic, as a series of misunderstandings brings this odd couple into ever closer and more disastrous proximity . . . “Provokes the sort of indecorous involuntary laughter that has more in common with sneezing than chuckling. Imagine a British John Waters crossed with David Sedaris.” —The New York Times

Readers count along with Dwayne as he sees new animals on safari. Dwayne and his family notice the long necks on the giraffes and their long black tongues. This fiction title is paired with the nonfiction title "The Life of a Giraffe" for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.

Readers will learn about the tools and steps required to create a garden, which also happens to attract Beth's favorite insect. This fiction title is paired to the nonfiction title "Flowers in My Garden" for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.