Sonia's Staff Pick

For this month’s staff pick, Sonia chose to highlight Gotham City Cocktails: Official Handcrafted Food & Drinks From the World of Batman, by André Darlington and Ted Thomas. This unique cookbook has 70 drink and food recipes inspired by one of DC’s most iconic superheroes. This hardback book is beautifully bound with fabric and gold lettering/design. Many recipes are accompanied by a color image and a blurb about how the recipe ties into Gotham City. Some things that I think make this book especially unique include the Equipment Checklist, a Brief History page, and several blank note pages in the back where readers can add their own comments (if owned personally of course). Sonia said that her favorite recipe from this book is “Barbara Gordon’s Lemon Chicken, found on page 130. She stated, “I like the simplicity of the dish as I already had all of the ingredients on hand to make it and I love the pairing of lemon and chicken”. Gotham City Cocktails describes this recipe as being “famous at the Gotham City Police Department. It is a running joke that if James Gordon cannot be found, it’s best to assume Barbara has made her chicken, It is that good”. To find this title in our in-house collection, look under the call number, “641.874 Dar” in the Adult Non-Fiction section. If you are a fan of this book and would like to check out similar titles, André Darlington has 12 other titles, many of which are also themed cocktail books. Let us know what you think of March’s staff pick and the recipes within!