Now, for the first time, enthusiasts of cocktails and Hitchcock can raise a glass and toast each of the legendary director’s most iconic films, with more than two dozen original recipes for delicious, handcrafted cocktails. inspired by Hitch’s most infamous scenes, settings, and characters. Murder and manners make for the ultimate mixture in the movies of director Alfred Hitchcock. In every one of his major pictures, characters down an alcoholic beverage or two–even in a film set on a lifeboat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Hitchcocktails: Lethal Libations Inspired by the Master of Suspense features more than two dozen artisanal cocktail recipes inspired by such characters such as Norman Bates, Mrs. Danvers, Uncle Charlie, Marnie, and the ultimate stranger on a train, Bruno Antony. Cary Grant’s elegant way around a cocktail shaker is traced from his would-be poisoner in Suspicion to his government agent with an intimate knowledge of hangover remedies in Notorious to his bourbon-addled ad man-on-the-run in North by Northwest .
