中文简介：

这本手册提供了鸡尾酒的基础方法，来自詹姆斯·比尔德奖得主的开拓者，将使你像经验丰富的酒吧老板一样理解和创造原创饮料。与**调酒师托比·马洛尼（Toby Maloney）和他的酒吧The Violet Hour的团队一起，体验调制鸡尾酒的关键阶段，学习调酒的方法和原因。这家开创性的鸡尾酒酒吧于2007年在芝加哥开业，它设立了一个高标准的创新培训项目，不仅教授如何完美地复制经典的鸡尾酒配方，而且教授如何接受**性，做出明智的决定，并创造出创新独特的配方。就像厨师对自己的食品储藏室了如指掌，不需要菜谱就能迅速做出晚餐一样，那些遵循《酒保宣言》中的方法的人将拥有技术基础和信心，把他们的鸡尾酒技能提高到一个新的水平，用手边的任何原料调制出一种饮料。 首先，本书深入探讨创造具有适当平衡、质地、香气和温度的鸡尾酒的机制。从那里，托比远远超出了工艺的微调机制，涵盖了如何启动创意过程并为饮料带来专业级的复杂性和精致性。其他文章提供了关于如何提供**的接待（在酒吧和家里）的内幕信息，在工艺的日常仪式中找到安慰，并在这个过程中激发惊喜和好奇心。通过对The Violet Hour的美味配方的详细见解、酒吧校友的专家提示以及有用的分步图解和照片，读者将更深入地了解酒吧的培训项目为何如此传奇，以及创造反映其个人风格和创造力的富有想象力的鸡尾酒的超能力。

英文简介：

A flying masked bandit (code name: Chickadee) discovers he isn't quite who he thinks he is in this fresh and delightful tale about discovering one's true nature.Meet Chickadee. Criminal. Rapscallion. All-around bad seed. Sure, he started out obeying the rules, following his parents' advice about finding things to eat and staying away from houses. But then . . . winter arrives. And it's so much harder to find food in winter! So when Chickadee spies a "vault" full of "gold" near a house by the park (Wait, wasn't there something to remember about houses?), he cleverly devises a plan to snatch the "vault full of treasure" without getting caught! He is the King of Thieves! Only, hmm, the humans near the vault seem to want him to visit. Maybe Chickadee's not a criminal after all?Monica Silvie's fun first-person storytelling will have readers falling in love with this cheeky and enormously appealing bird and his endearingly misinformed self-perception. Chickadee's growing understanding that he's not actually a criminal, and that what he really wants is a friend, adds a lovely poignancy to the humor. Elina Ellis's charming, hilarious illustrations bring the adorable Chickadee to life; the way he looks directly at readers with wide-eyed sincerity while he speaks to them is particularly effective. With such a seamless blend of entertainment and information, learning has never been so much fun!