the art of the perfect cocktail

I can't seem to escape launch of for The Essential Cocktail's marketing blitz today. I've never tried one of Degroff's drinks, but am a big Audrey Saunders fan. So far, my favorite cocktail wisdom comes from The Gentleman's Companion by Charles H Baker. It took me a while to track it down, but these days this book has a new name (Jigger, Beaker and Glass: Drinking Around the World) and cover, but at least you don't have to track down an out of print tome.