As we close the bar on 2007, I felt it appropriate to take a look back. Sure everyone does these lists, but it is fun to look at the year that was. I I figure, hey! why not?

So with out further ado, here are some of my favorites from 2007.

Cheers!

January
- Gin, The New Vodka?
- Super Bowl Cocktails
- Top 10 US Party Cities

February
- Suck & Blow
- Presidential Cocktails
- Beer Launching Fridge

March
- Preparing Drinks in a Blender
- Million Dollar Tequila (really $1,000,000)
- Teach your baby how to mix cocktails
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Bartending & entertaining guides make great gifts. Here’s a few we really like.

Gary Regan — (writes for the SF Chronicle , very well regarded mixologist)
The bartenders Bible

Bartending for Dummies (always good)

The Craft of the Cocktail - Dale DeGroff — Legendary Bartender from the Rainbow Room

The ultimate A-Z Cocktail Book - I use this one alot

Cocktail Food - we gotta eat

Cocktail Parties with a twist

This one is just plain fun
Teach your baby how to mix cocktails

and more bartending books here

This new book series by Lisa Brown is hillarious. In addition to bartending, the series lays out all sorts of chores you can have you 2 year old perform. These include banking, making breakfast and fixing the car. Kinda gives new meaning to the old bedtime story

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Buy It - Baby Mix Me a Drink

Author Mark Bailey and Illustrator Edward Hemingway (a grandson of the Man Himself), collaborated on this clever book that explores the drinking habits of some of Americas greatest writers. The book features a host of classic writers and the cokctail that they have become synonymous with their name. Such lumineries as Hemingway (Cocktail: Mojito), Faulkner (Cocktail: Mint Julep) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Cocktail: Gin Rickey).

This book is more than a bartending guide, with drinking related excerpts and quotes from the writings of famous American writers and wonderfully illustrated, this is a necessary addition to any cocktail of literary fans’ book collection.

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(the npr review)

more bartending books…