From Tuesday through Sunday, thousands of bartenders, liquor writers, distillers, beverage managers, culinary historians, tiki fanatics, absinthe enthusiasts, and drinks aficionados will be hunkering down to sessions and seminars about the spirits we drink, where they come from, and how they're used both now and over the last few hundred years.
It's pretty much awesome.
But in the lobby of Hotel Monteleone (host venue and ground zero for all these shenanigans), there's a little room just to the left as you come through the main entrance off Royal Street. For the next week, it will be a bookstore featuring the texts, tomes, rants, and recipes of the speakers and presenters at Tales. It's operated by Octavia Books, an independent local bookstore — certainly worth the trip uptown if you have the time to get away from Tales. If you can't, they'll have on site (unless they sell out) titles such as:
- Ted Munat and Michael Lazar's new Left Coast Libations
- Phillip Collier's Mixing New Orleans
- Difford's Encyclopedia of Cocktails
- Tony Abou-Ganim's The Modern Mixologist
- Sara Rohen's Gumbo Tales
- and loads more
Octavia Books
513 Octavia Street (at the corner of Laurel)
New Orleans, Louisiana
504.899.7323
www.octaviabooks.com
1 comment:
Hey Matthew .. Wanna swap links with our DixieDining blog? Enjoying your writing and book too!
Gary Saunders, CEO, DixieDining.com
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