the world’s best drinks where to find them & how to make them 2-9_worldsbestdrinks_frontmatter.indd 1 23/10/2015 12:15 2-9_worldsbestdrinks_frontmatter.indd 2 23/10/2015 12:15 © LONELY PLANET IMAGES MARK READ 2-9_worldsbestdrinks_frontmatter.indd 3 23/10/2015 12:15 CONTENTS FOREWORD 8 Caesar Canada 70 Cade Codder USA 72 BEER 10 Cosmopolitan USA 74 Michelada Mexico 12 Espresso Martini United Kingdom 76 Cider 22 Siam Sunray Thailand 78 Mulled cider United Kingdom 26 RUM 80 WINE 28 Daiquiri Cuba 84 Glögi Finland 36 Dark and Stormy Bermuda 86 KMSTeaairmnlirmgeormosiaato x SFtopor a aSCnipnhca ieilne 44340482 EHMMgiaobgiji nisttoacoigu CC sU uagnbliiinaftoge &erdnr tK ihpaien u& ngC dcPuhoob mlJayan n m e saiiac a 989082 © LONELY PLANET IMAGES GMNPSiienamIgrgNtmraionp ’nsio iUUr IeSnt aAiStl lyei n dg K Siinnggdaopmor e 4555560862 PT W a idhñsHioama tsIca SpconholKiaaordnYaca o b lPu austhee wrAtauolsk Rterircaslo’i a r u m 109990846 © LONELY PLANET IMAGES, MARK READ STVBolloOomeoD dCgyiKon Ml lAUiann rsiy tU eFSdrAa K nicneg d om 66664082 CIMMSraiaiasnzrnhetihb rcjaaouotculetf faUpCenS aeU AIn rSI areAedl alaan n dd 111110001106448 © TIM E WHITE, MATT MUNRO 4 2-9_worldsbestdrinks_frontmatter.indd 4 23/10/2015 12:15 © LONELY PLANET IMAGES TMPSaaEanlroQggmraiUratia tIM aLM eMAexxei cixcoioc o 111112226042 N ÁA mg OuDearNR idcI-eaNA nc KoLmcCSiolkO BshHraakzOiel L UISCA 141144486 MMMOliaainanlttnge tgode T almah Msaislikoil sarIhnnoaddckic a eo U SA 111187770486 © LONELY PLANET IMAGES, MARK READ A CCG aaa TSirnp ieTbPirlaHaIinlRzdhEoiIa ITT tBBha rCAleya CAAz inlKB d I eONs EF TT HE 1 11123236082 AABBCCnyauahrinbrajadsdbin maIul nemTne dutglokier amM kaT e ahTtylaeea ia ywN sEaeiaant sh & te ASrlifanrnigcdaaps o re 111111565565008622 RSBTTYeeuhoahaainorn alttCe a nybhyraa eiiT nnksee gamMrm H floapooloalenatyh tgsU i iUeKaS S oAW&An o Ig nr l ddowniedsei a 111111988899048624 © TIM E WHITE, MATT MUNRO KMPToivasnaccgsou bRá as uoN Nsuisceria apP raealr g&uu aI&n dCiha il e 111143338246 CCEEHsgooopgrfcr fcoceehraseae s ttaWoeam a osM orSUeldtdSx aLwAi cuU iodcS eiAa 111116667704862 GAIAnCuldKotNehsOxso Wa rrLsEy D GEMENTS 222200004028 5 2-9_worldsbestdrinks_frontmatter.indd 5 23/10/2015 12:16 Foreword BY VICTORIA MOORE Smell is the most evocative sense we have. One sniff The more we travel, the richer this experience of a glass filled with thick yoghurt mixed with luscious becomes, of course, and perhaps that’s one reason Alphonso mango can be enough to conjure up the why our appetite for different drinks has become more chaotic hum of an Indian street – the flashes of colours, adventurous. We don’t always need to have been to a jangle of horns, wood smoke, drains, the beggars, place to have a sense of it, either. Memories can also the dirt, the cries and the calls. In the same way, the be built from films, photographs and snatches of music sugar-drenched sourness of a caipirinha can saturate played on a sunny afternoon. your mind with Brazilian sun and a glass of spicy glögi This Lonely Planet book of the world’s best drinks is transport you to the pine forests of a Nordic midwinter. not, then, a mere drink guide, offering a brief guide to The part of the brain responsible for this potent wine, charting the rise of artisan tonic water; steering effect is called the olfactory cortex. It’s here that you through the different styles of beer, from blonde ale associations are made between the input coming from to witbier to dunkel and providing a pithy history of the the flavour receptors in our nose and the memory traces planet’s most famous spirits. It is also a travelogue that from earlier experiences of that drink. The olfactory will take you to the sophisticated and chic gallerias of cortex possesses an almost magical ability to reconstruct Milan where you can sip negronis made with carmine- a whole from a small fragment. In the same way that coloured Campari as well as venturing into less well- when we hear the timbre of a loved one’s voice, their trammelled territories. In these pages you might make whole being seems to enter the room, the tiniest sip of a new discoveries such as the terremoto – a Chilean drink can connect us to a vast tapestry of remembered cocktail made using pineapple ice cream, white wine emotions, vistas and sensations. and grenadine and apparently created in 1985 shortly after the earthquake that shook Valparaiso. And did you know that the Paloma – made with tequila, grapefruit juice and soda – is more widely drunk in Mexico than the Margarita? I didn’t. 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