You can buy boozes that have insanely complex flavor profiles, ready to go right out of the bottle. But if you want to take out the booze, you have to start building all that same complexity from nothing.
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(...and here's what it looked like after Sarah gently asked me to please clean my shit up or she was going to send the previous photo to Chef.)pic.twitter.com/cIGhAJ1Mxe
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The recipes themselves were super-fun to make, and scaling them all down myself forced me to learn how to taste and evaluate them. I brought each version of each drink in to the chefs to let them taste a couple times per week.pic.twitter.com/G13AeSS7nX
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I ended up making most drinks several times before getting them to a point where we all agreed they were delicious.pic.twitter.com/9y4sDRtKO8
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In doing this back-and-forth, we ended up expanding the scope of things dramatically; what started as a book with about 30 recipes grew into one with over 120 or so. There's some pretty fun stuff we developed just for the book (things that were never served in the restaurants).pic.twitter.com/cwdWdRb8WH
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Anyway, I'm excited today because we've gotten a big box of proofs from our printer and are putting the finishing touches on things before pushing "go" on our big print run. We're debating a few different cloth-cover slipcase options...pic.twitter.com/fAnRqUcT9V
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...and a few interesting cover treatments (we're working on a textured cover that has sort of a glassy "varnish" over the hero drink, so that the whole thing is fun to touch).pic.twitter.com/tDm14uqNgJ
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Sarah just finished up the end sheets (the two pages that secure the main book block to the cover itself). I generated the linework in Houdini – a combination of Tessendorf waves and a fluid simulation – and she hand-painted the ice cubes and the water textures)pic.twitter.com/Ik5GPyzlqp
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Anyway, we aim to have it ready to ship within the next few months, and are very excited to share it.pic.twitter.com/RHPwHnWqG9
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Oh, also, we're working on something else that we'll be releasing around the same time. Have a great weekend!pic.twitter.com/A2jAHJrtzM
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