ARTISTS' COCKTAILS – Ryan Gander

Published by Dent-De-Leone, London, 2013 (third edition 2015)

Out of print
Second hand, good condition

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A compendium of 100+ artists’ cocktails, tried and tested ...and conceptual. 

Extract from a conversation between Ryan Gander (Author) and Masako Hosoi (Artist): “I have something for you, I’ll send it over. You know for four years now I have been trying to propagate shiso and it hasn’t grown. I tried everything: freezing and thawing the seeds, leaving them in the dark for a year, different temperatures and humidity… The seeds Taro sent me in February came up no problem, just in fine soil with a sheet of paper over the pot outside, no special equipment or lights. Crazy. The kitchen garden at home is now being taken over by green shiso plants with huge leaves everywhere. We have a glut, as the English call it. Fearful of it not reseeding and growing next year I’ve been stripping the leaves and producing shiso sugar syrup and shiso-infused vodka. The vodka is unbelievably good! I thought of proposing it to ABSOLUT as a new flavour. We’ll see. Anyway, I have a bottle for you! ”