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New Orleans cocktail book shows city's elegant drink side
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Neal Bodenheimer, owner and founder of Cure, poses in his craft cocktail bar with a copy of his new book "Cure: New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix 'Em" in New Orleans, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. - photo by AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
If your idea of a New Orleans cocktail is a Kool-Aid colored, alcohol-heavy concoction served in a plastic hand grenade or a novelty glass resembling a hurricane lamp, stop thinking like a college freshman on his first trip to Bourbon Street and take a look at the new book from upscale bar owner Neal Bodenheimer. “Cure: New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ’Em,” by Bodenheimer and food writer Emily Timberlake, is full of recipes for cocktails created at Cure, the craft cocktail bar Bodenheimer founded in 2009. The bar is widely credited with being modern-day New Orleans’ first destination bar for craft cocktails.