Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka are raising a toast with their newest joint venture — a book that brings everyone to the party. Both Sides of the Glass: Paired Cocktails and Mocktails to Toast Any Taste is an inclusive guide that pairs alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks side by side, ensuring every celebration has something for everyone.
Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burtka are celebrating the launch of the drink recipe book they co-authored, Both Sides of the Glass: Paired Cocktails and Mocktails to Toast Any Taste. The book has recipes for alcoholic drinks and complementary non-alcoholic drinks to pair them with for all occasions. Below, find a video of Harris and Burtka making a paired set of their beverages and the recipes for The Perfect Margarita and the non-alcoholic Kinda Marg.
Penguin Random House says, “From Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, an innovative cocktail book that caters to a growing trend—mocktails for nondrinkers that are just as delicious and fun as their cocktail counterparts—in a joyful combination of seventy elevated, perfectly paired alcoholic and nonalcoholic recipes that let everyone raise a glass.“
“Neil Patrick Harris loves cocktails. So much that he created the Black Magic Margarita, which is currently served at La Cava Del Tequila in Epcot Center, featured cocktails as a weekly feature in his Wondercade newsletter, and even created a bar in his home that was featured in Architectural Digest. David Burtka is sober. An esteemed chef and entertainer, David did not want to miss out on all of Neil’s cocktail fun—he just doesn’t want alcohol. Nor did he want to stop the party. The idea of a virgin version of Neil’s fabulous cocktails felt depressing to him, so David rose to the challenge to create the most exciting, refreshing, and festive concoctions that he can enjoy while celebrating with others.”
“After seven years of building up their bar and cocktail recipes together, Neil and David are ready to share what they’ve learned with the world in Both Sides of the Glass, the first guide that combines equally exciting and innovative cocktails and mocktails to suit any mood or event. Together, Neil and David have played with fresh ingredients from their garden, explored flavor profiles from across the globe, and tried almost all the nonalcoholic spirits that have popped up in the past few years to bring you seventy recipes (thirty-five cocktails and thirty-five mocktails) for their very favorite concoctions.”
“With carefully curated beverages organized thematically around the four elements (fire, earth, water, and air), Both Sides of the Glass truly is the cocktail book for the next generation of drinkers and nondrinkers.”
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“Neil Patrick Harris is a multi-hyphenate known for iconic roles on both stage and screen, such as Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, Count Olaf in the Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the title role in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony, Drama League and Drama Desk Awards). He has also served as a beloved host of the Tony Awards, the Primetime Emmy Awards, and the Academy Awards. Neil is the author of the international and New York Times bestselling fiction series The Magic Misfits (over one million copies sold), produced and starred in the Netflix comedy series Uncoupled, and joined the cast of the BBC’s Dr. Who 60th Anniversary Special.”
“David Burtka is an award-winning and sought-after host, chef, caterer, actor, and author of the bestselling Life is a Party: Deliciously Doable Recipes to Make Every Day a Celebration. His Food Network special, Life’s A Party with David Burtka, aired in 2016 and was awarded a Telly Award and 1st Prize at the New York Film and TV Awards. He has appeared in numerous shows on Broadway and Off, including Sam Mendes’ Gypsy (Fred Astaire Award nomination) Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia? and The Play About The Baby, It Shoulda Been You, and in a variety of TV series and films, such as The West Wing (TV) and Cicada, Dance-Off, Annie and the Gypsy, and Regrets Only (Film). David’s one-man show, Burtka, David, played a sold-out engagement at 54 Below. Among David’s various producing credits, he can be seen in the series Drag Me to Dinner streaming on Hulu.”
Penguin Random House’s Both Sides of the Glass: Paired Cocktails and Mocktails to Toast Any Taste by Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka is available now for $35.99 in hardcover or $18.99 for ebook anywhere books are sold.
