Books, bans, and Expats

Good news first: After a very long wait, Raising the Bar is finally out! My friend Brett Adams and I started work on the proposal for this book back in late 2019. When we sent it off to our agent at the beginning of 2020, we envisioned a fun year of hosting cocktail parties with our friends to test all the recipes. Needless to say, that’s not how things worked out. The book was written in a bubble, with tragic numbers of perfectly fine drinks dumped down the drain or into the bushes after tasting because there’s only so many cocktails two guys can reasonably consume.

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