Book jacket image for The Book of Cocktail Ratios by Michael Ruhlman

Scribner

9781668003398

STARRED REVIEW

The Book of Cocktail Ratios

Even if you’re not much of a numbers person, this guide to the ratios involved in six classic tipples goes down easy.

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Review of ‘The Book of Cocktail Ratios’

In a follow-up to his fascinating Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, multifaceted writer and chef Michael Ruhlman applies that concept to cocktails. Even more so than culinary creations, boozy drinks “are fundamentally defined by their ratios, rather than by a unique combination of ingredients,” he writes in The Book of…

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