Twenty Years Behind Bars Volume 2: Parole Denied

By Jeff Burkhart

Book Overview

Take one-part Mr. Boston's Bartending Guide, one-part Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, a dash of JR Moehringer's The Tender Bar, combine and you have the pure entertainment that is Twenty Years Behind Bars. Part trade manual and part psychological introspective Twenty Years Behind Bars Vol. II: Parole Denied combines real-life observations (by a real-life bartender) and information in an amusing and irreverent fashion.Jeff Burkhart is both an award-winning journalist and an award-winning bartender. His Barfly column (Marin Independent Journal, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Tallahassee Democrat) was voted best column in California in 2014 (California Newspaper Publishers Association, CNPA) and he has been voted best bartender in the North Bay three times; by the readers of Bohemian Magazine (2008), the readers of the Marin IJ (2018), and the readers of the Pacific Sun (2019). He has also contributed spirits/historical features to San Francisco Magazine, GFF Magazine, Capture Magazine and National Geographic Assignment.Praise for Twenty Years Behind Bars: "racy and innocent" San Jose Mercury News "insightful writing about bar culture and human nature" San Francisco Examiner"irreverent broodings about cocktails, bar life and the people who frequent both" Gastronomique en Vogue"great book and quite funny, and includes recipes" Joel Riddel, KKSF"take twenty years of experience, a healthy dose of human foibles, stir in a way with words and add alcohol-mix well and you an entertaining account of life as seen from the other side of the bar" Bruce Robinson, KRCB

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098550014X
• ISBN13: 9780985500146
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Crown & Phoenix
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"