Cocktail Time!: The Ultimate Guide to Grown-Up Fun by Paul Feig


Cocktail Time!: The Ultimate Guide to Grown-Up Fun
Title : Cocktail Time!: The Ultimate Guide to Grown-Up Fun
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ISBN : 0063160692
ISBN-10 : 9780063160699
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 304
Publication : First published November 15, 2022

Elegant man-about-town and the director of  Bridesmaids, Spy,  and  A Simple Favor  Paul Feig serves up a beautifully designed cocktail and lifestyle guide with hilarious stories from his life. Famed TV and film writer, director, and producer Paul Feig is obsessed with cocktails and cocktail culture. It’s about having great conversations with friends. It’s about putting on your best clothes and throwing a smart gathering or heading to your favorite bar and having an interesting chat with the bartender. And it’s about staying home, mixing a drink and sipping it in a beautiful glass as you watch a great old movie by yourself. Paul has made an art and a science out of creating these elegant and festive environments and living his best life, whether at home in LA or New York or London or on location around the world, and it’s all here in  Cocktail Time! —how to make the drinks, how to throw the parties, what music to play, what glassware you need and more, along with 125 cocktail recipes, each served along with funny insider stories about Paul’s Hollywood life and famous friends. Cocktail Time!  covers everything, from classics (and variations on them) like martinis, negronis, and hot toddies to original concoctions such as “The Feigtini” and holiday cocktails, as well as recipes from film and TV industry friends, such as the Charlize Theron Gibson, the Very Cherry Kerry (Washington), the (Angela) Kinsey Gin Fizz, Henry (Golding)’s Honey Plum G&T, and The Five (Michelle) Yeoh-Larm Fire. Cocktail Time!  is a love letter to the aesthetics and culture around cocktails. It’s guaranteed to make you want to up your party-giving game—or at least your home bar situation. And it’s an immensely charming and readable window into one man’s friendly obsession.

Cocktail Time!: The Ultimate Guide to Grown-Up Fun Reviews

  • Zach

    Fun read and perspective on cocktail history. Also includes a number of good recipes.

  • E

    I want just selected as a GoodReads giveaway winner for Cocktail Time! I love the concept of this book and cannot wait to receive it! Will update my review when I've read it - thanks for picking me

  • Aaron Arnold

    Paul Feig (director of Freaks and Geeks, Bridesmaids, etc) likes drinks, parties, and people, and has written a book on how to best combine the three that emphasizes the pleasure of good company and good cocktails. He’s a great writer, with appealing drink recipes, solid advice on being both a good host and guest, and plenty of funny anecdotes featuring him and other celebrities in just the right self-deprecating-but-insightful tone (my possible favorite was the one about “crushing the wine”). The entire added value of celebrity cocktail books in this era of ubiquitous free drink recipes on the internet is the celebrity part - I wanted hilarious stories of famous people getting really drunk, and Feig delivers splendidly. This is both a solid bookshelf book as well as a useful guide to hosting or enjoying a party (I was recommended this book by the owner of Barfly’s, Austin’s greatest dive bar), as Feig put some serious thought into even mundane entries like martinis. There are a lot of celebrity cocktail books out there, but this one is such a good example of the genre that you probably won’t need another, unless it’s by Scorsese or something.

  • Debra DeWolf

    I was thrilled to win a copy of Cocktail Time? Unfortunately, the publisher never sent me the book.