Spirited: How to Create Easy, Fun Drinks at Home

Spirited brings together fifty well-crafted cocktail recipes, all fuelled by a cook's palate and a love of creative ingredients. The recipes play with a wide range of flavours such as fresh, floral, herbal and spicy notes and encourage you to think like a cook not a bartender. With chapters on drambling (the joy of winter walks and whisky), creative and delicious drinks to serve at gatherings, warming nightcaps and non-alcoholic 'soothies' to calm an ailing spirit, there is a tipple here for every occasion.

There is also a collection of recipes called Cupboard Cocktails -- made from staple ingredients you may already have in your kitchen -- and more ambitious weekend projects for gifts or special occasions.