bbJAMES BEARD AWARD FINALIST - bFrom the authors of the best-selling and genre-defining cocktail book iDeath Coi, iCocktail Codex iis a comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks that employs the authors' unique root cocktails approach to give drink-makers of every level the tools to understand, execute, and improvise both classic and original cocktails.b pThere are only six cocktails. So say Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan, the visionaries behind the seminal craft cocktail bar Death Co. In iCocktail Codexi, these experts reveal for the first time their surprisingly simple approach to mastering cocktails the root recipes, six easily identifiable and memorizable templates that encompass iall icocktails the old-fashioned, martini, daiquiri, sidecar, whisky highball, and flip. Once you understand the hows and whys of each family, you'll understand why some cocktails work and others don't, when to shake and when to stir, what you can omit and what you can substitute wh