This is a book of bespoke drink recipes named after and inspired by
the songs on Bury the Lede, the full-length album by Dessa. Some of
the recipes can be mixed and served swiftly; others are built in stages
for maximum dramatic effect. This slender volume contains not only clever recipes ranging from simple batched cocktails to color-changing showstoppers, designed by beverage maverick Marco Zappia (who makes “the most fun cocktails in America” —Esquire).
It’s also a collection of little essays on the strange and interesting
ways that artists collaborate, and it offers a bit of insight into the
science that sits beneath the surface of every mixed drink. You will
find the intrigue of secret recipes guarded by friars; the methods that
bartenders use to mix drinks by ear as the temperature affects the
pitch of clattering ice; and the alchemic combinations of ideas that
emerge from people sharing something strong late at night.