A Field Guide to Canadian Cocktails

Celebrate Canadian cocktail history and artistry with A Field Guide to Canadian Cocktails, a collection of over 100 recipes inspired by a bounty of homegrown ingredients and spirits that will appeal to armchair bartenders and professionals alike.
From the Yukon’s Sour Toe Shot to a Prairie Caesar to New Brunswick’s Fiddlehead Martini, each beautifully crafted recipe—comprising updated classics, signature drinks from Canada’s top bartenders and the authors’ own creations—features quintessentially Canadian ingredients and cultural references, blending to create a libatious and entertaining journey from sea to shining sea.
Also featured are syrup and infusion recipes, tips and tricks, technique and equipment guides, as well as travel narratives and recommendations from the authors’ cross-country road trips.
Authors Victoria Walsh and Scott McCallum have dedicated countless hours, not to mention gas mileage, foraging, travelling and experimenting, in order to instill their own brand of northern spirit into the existing cocktail canon, and to add to the proud tradition of ensuring Canadian drinks, history and lore, in all their glory, are served at the global bar.

SCOTT MCCALLUM has acquired an alchemist-like knack for creating cocktails from over a decade of service experience--from running a busy 10-room Montreal B&B, to serving for Toronto's most reputable event staffing company, and being a part of the food and beverage team at one of Canada's most iconic concert venues, Massey Hall. His talents have been utilized for events with themed cocktail menus, weddings, and an ongoing pop-up cocktail restaurant project and for food stories printed inFood & Drink magazine.

VICTORIA WALSH is food editor for Grapevine and previously food editor forToday's Parent. She writes for a variety of Canadian publications, includingFood & Drink, Toronto Life, Glow, and Foodnetwork.ca. She has food styled for Lucy Waverman atThe Globe and Mail and Steven and Chris. She has also appeared on Breakfast Television, CityLine, as a judge on Chef Worthy and created, developed, styled and starred in an extensive series of cooking videos forChatelaine.com.