Corroborates retrieval by cocktail form rather than treating every recipe as an isolated object.
The opening technique section reduces many named drinks to recurring relationships among strong, sweet, sour, bitter, temperature, and water.
The authors frame most cocktails as combinations of spirit, sweetness, acidity and/or bitterness, followed by chilling and dilution; recurring principles make a large recipe field more tractable.
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Getting Started — balance
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