The Essential Cocktail: The Art Of Mixing Perfect Drinks Dale Degroff 1 2 cup such as: Oatmeal Cookies from Ruth such as: Oatmeal Cookies from Ruth Reichl Lemon Bars from Vallery Lomas Swedish Visiting Cake from Dorie Greenspan Rum Raisin Brownies from Julia Turshen Root Beer Cake with Chocolate–Root Beer Glaze from Carla Hall Classic Southern Pecan Pie from Cecile Richards Almond and Chocolate Leche Cake from Pati Jinich Chocolate Cherry Biscotti from Grace Young And essays and Saveur Hailed by the New York Times as “single handedly responsible for what’s been called the cocktail renaissance As Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the classic compendium for home chefs and gourmands