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HarperTorch
this will teach you really important skills for law school
There are a number of cocktails featuring hot coffee in Gary Regan's book The Bartender's Bible.
The list is fairly long...
My suggestions:
Jeff Morgenthaler's ( le_cigare_volant) The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique
Jim Meehan's Meehan's Bartender Manual & The PDT Cocktail Book
David Kaplan's Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails
These will get you going. The rest you'll have to learn on your feet.
For creativity, find some of the classic cocktail guides/books online for free. The Savoy Cocktail Book, The Gentleman's Companion and Harry's ABCs Of Mixing Cocktails are good places to start for historical reference. Remember, just because a recipe is in an old cocktail book doesn't automatically make it a classic. It makes it vintage. The classics are the one's that stand the test of time.
Death & Co has an entire chapter on nothing but "classic cocktails".
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You will have to look elsewhere for information on the "cocktails" of the 70s & 80s. You won't find a Slippery Nipple or Sex On The Beach in any of the above books. A reasonable reference is Gary Regan's (of bitters fame) The Bartender's Bible: 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar
I would defer to the first 4 books for any discrepancies.
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Good Luck!
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