Brian Van Flandern (born May 5, 1968) is an American
mixologist
A bartender (also known as a barkeep, barman, barmaid, or a mixologist) is a person who formulates and serves alcoholic or soft drink beverages behind the bar, usually in a licensed establishment as well as in restaurants and nightclubs, but a ...
, spirits historian, and award-winning cocktail book author. He has been called "America's Top Mixologist" by ''Food Network''. His book, ''Vintage Cocktails'', won the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best Cocktail book in the World 2009.
Van Flandern has cocktails served in over forty countries throughout the world and he has created original recipes and cocktail programs for famed chefs: Michel Richard, Thomas Keller, Geoffrey Zakarian and others.
History
Van Flandern was raised in
Washington, D.C.
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but moved to
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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in 1990 to pursue an acting career at the National Shakespeare Conservatory. He bartended as a side job where he worked at such restaurants as Esca and Ilo until given the opportunity to open chef
Thomas Keller's restaurant,
Per Se
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* Negligence ''per se'', legal use in tort law
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Bibliography
See also
*
List of bartenders
References
External links
Van Flandren's MyMixologist website
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American bartenders
Living people
1968 births
Writers from Washington, D.C.
Writers from New York City