COCKTAILS! Readings by Two Bestselling Writers About Booze!

Robert Simonson returns, reading from his soon-to-be-published book on martinis. Simonson is the author of 3 Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail Canon (Ten Speed Press, September 2017), A Proper Drink (Ten Speed Press, September 2016), and The Old-Fashioned: The Story of the World’s First Classic Cocktail (Ten Speed Press, May 2014). New York Times editor and Larchmont resident Steve Reddicliffe, author of the best selling book, The Essential New York Times Book of Cocktails (Cider Mill Press, October 2015) is also back.

Sunday, December 16, at 4:00pm, in the Larchmont Village Center located directly behind the Larchmont Public Library at 121 Larchmont Avenue. Refreshments will be available at 3:30pm and cocktails will be served at the conclusion of the program.

The program is made possible by the Friends of the Larchmont Public Library.

Don’t miss this unusual opportunity to sample the best writing about mixed drinks, bar culture, and the food that goes best with your spirits! The cocktail hour is once again one of America’s most popular pastimes and one of our favorite ways to entertain.

Robert Simonson’s most recent book, 3-Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail Canon, is a concise history of the best classic cocktails, and a curated collection of the best three-ingredient cocktails of the modern era. Organized by style of drink and variations, the book features 75 delicious recipes for cocktails both classic (Japanese Cocktail, Bee's Knees, Harvey Wallbanger) and contemporary (Remember the Alimony, Little Italy, La Perla), in addition to fun narrative asides and beautiful full-color photography.

Simonson’s A Proper Drink, is the first-ever book to tell the full, unflinching story of the contemporary craft cocktail revival. An award-winning writer, Robert Simonson interviewed more than 200 key players from around the world, and the result is a rollicking (if slightly tipsy) story of the characters--bars, bartenders, patrons, and visionaries--who in the last 25 years have changed the course of modern drink-making. The book also features a curated list of about 40 cocktails--25 modern classics, plus an additional 15 to 20 rediscovered classics and classic contenders--to emerge from the movement.

Robert Simonson, journalist and author, is one of the leading authorities on spirits and cocktail culture in the United States. Called “our man in the liquor-soaked trenches” by the New York Times, he has written extensively about cocktails, spirits, bars, and bartenders for the Times, as well as GQ, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Advocate, Imbibe, Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn, and Time Out New York. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

In The Essential New York Times Book of Cocktails, Steve Reddicliffe, the “Quiet Drink” columnist for The New York Times, brings his signature voice and expertise to a collection of delicious recipes from bartenders from everywhere, especially New York City. Classics like the Martini, the Old-Fashioned, the Manhattan, the French 75, the Negroni, as well as favorites from the new generation of elixirs borne of the craft-distilling boom.

In addition to the "Quiet Drink" column, Reddicliffe is also The New York Times deputy Travel editor. Before joining The Times in 2004, he was the editor-in-chief of TV Guide and Parenting magazines. He also has been an editor at Entertainment Weekly, Self and Us. A resident of Larchmont, he is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin.

And remember, cocktails will be served!