Bound Together 2023: Nonfiction: Food and Drink
Featuring stories of historic Los Angeles and recipes for exciting new cocktails, these titles by Natalia Molina, Lou Bustamante, and Eddie Muller hit the spot.
THE COMPLETE COCKTAIL MANUAL: RECIPES AND TRICKS OF THE TRADE FOR MODERN MIXOLOGISTS, BY LOU BUSTAMANTE
WELDON OWEN • SEPTEMBER 2022 • 256 PAGES • $23 HARDCOVER
For amateur bartenders looking to step up their cocktail game, this book includes over 85 recipes for boozy beverages plus tips on syrups, garnishes, and tinctures to bring your sippable concoctions to the next level. Lou Bustamante also offers alcohol-free recipes and useful advice for throwing a successful cocktail party, like how to handle a guest who drinks too much.
A PLACE AT THE NAYARIT: HOW A MEXICAN RESTAURANT NOURISHED A COMMUNITY, By NATALIA MOLINA
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS • APRIL 2022 • 312 PAGES • $30 HARDCOVER
Doña Natalia Barraza owned and operated a Mexican restaurant in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park for decades, welcoming immigrants and longtime Latinx residents into her kitchen, her dining room, and sometimes her home. Through dedication to her employees and customers, Barraza fed and nurtured a community, providing its members with a deep sense of safety and belonging. Selected for Alta Journal’s California Book Club in 2022, Natalia Molina’s investigation of her grandmother’s work and the world she built at the Nayarit is academic and sentimental.
EDDIE MULLER’S NOIR BAR: COCKTAILS INSPIRED BY THE WORLD OF FILM NOIR, BY EDDIE MULLER
RUNNING PRESS • MAY 2023 • 248 PAGES • $26 HARDCOVER
Fans of classic Hollywood, this one’s for you. Film noir expert Eddie Muller has created cocktail pairings for 50 movies. Some drinks are his own invention, and some are adapted from cocktails mentioned in the flicks or sipped behind the scenes. Devotees can work their way through the book movie by movie, drink by drink, and more casual noir fans can flip through the recipes, which are accompanied by film stills, poster art, and movie commentary from Muller.
