Bury the Lede: A Cocktail Book

Essays on songcraft by Dessa
Cocktails by Marco Zappia
Photography by Bill Phelps

Dessa teamed up with beverage master Marco Zappia and photographer bill Phelps to create this book of bespoke drink recipes named after and inspired by the songs on Bury the Lede, the full-length album by Dessa. Some of the recipes can be mixed and served swiftly; others are built in stages for maximum dramatic effect. This slender volume contains not only clever recipes ranging from simple batched cocktails to color-changing showstoppers, designed by beverage maverick Marco Zappia (who makes “the most fun cocktails in America” —Esquire). It’s also a collection of little essays on the strange and interesting ways that artists collaborate, and it offers a bit of insight into the science that sits beneath the surface of every mixed drink. You will find the intrigue of secret recipes guarded by friars; the methods that bartenders use to mix drinks by ear as the temperature affects the pitch of clattering ice; and the alchemic combinations of ideas that emerge from people sharing something strong late at night.

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