Raise A Glass To The Cocktail Recipe Comic Book Cocktails For Dingdongs

It’s fall cookbook season again, and with that comes another round of local food books that I’ll be cooking from. There are new books from Graham Elliot, kosher chef Laura Frankel, frequent Rick Bayless collaborator and Trib columnist JeanMarie Brownson, and Brooklyn chef Dale Talde, whose book on Filipino-American junk food fusion is heavily informed by his Chicago upbringing.

“The Wooded Isle cocktail is pretty near and dear to us. It was a bar team collaboration with one of our bartenders, Demetrius Green, who passed away suddenly this past January. We continue to serve that cocktail in his memory. I hired Demetrius during one of our open calls for the Promontory. Dude was cool! Very passionate and a happy cat to be around. He would say the weirdest shit, and I always loved that.”