A 160-page meditation on the martini: 35 variations on the classic, the history of the drink, original photography, and recipes from bartenders Hranek tracked down across the world. Hardcover, published by Artisan in 2021.

You keep it on the bar cart. You read it the way you read a cocktail menu, one entry at a time. Then you pick a recipe and you make it.

A gift for the friend who orders martinis. The host whose Saturday night you keep going back for. A father's day for the dad whose drink you finally understood when you turned 35.

Matt Hranek is the founder of WM Brown Magazine. The Martini is the third in his drinks series, after the Negroni. Each book treats one cocktail as a subject, not as a recipe.