This makes his book a particularly good survey of what made up the unpleasant cocktail which the world has yet to digest.

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While Chichi (and expensive) hedge funds make for fun cocktail chatter, what's really sexy is making--and keeping--some serious money and not getting stressed about it.

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The industry has opposed the idea of defining serving size by fluid ounces of pure alcohol or as 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof liquor on the grounds that you may get more than 1.5 ounces of liquor in a cocktail depending on what else is in the drink and the accuracy of the bartender.

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What America possesses is the right cocktail of institutions.

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So what is driving this exciting new cocktail scene?

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What ideas are going to dominate cocktail conversations?

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What about intimate sommelier-led wine classes or cocktail mixology school?

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Mixologists, on the other hand, can leverage the control panel to customize cocktail recipes, manage dispensers and even read reports of what drinks were made and how much of which ingredients were used.

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What exactly does an art adviser do, anyway, besides giving you a swanky name to drop at cocktail parties?

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What better way to get their name in the paper, generate some buzz via social media and be mentioned at cocktail parties without going to jail?

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