Maria Francesca Melis – illustratör

It’s the end of a long day. Finally, you have a moment to yourself. What to do? You could engage in the meditative act of making yourself a cocktail. Or you could pull out your markers or pencils and just as mindfully lose yourself in a colouring book. With Dark & Stormy, you can do both!• 38 classic cocktail recipes, from the Sazerac to the Salty Dog, the Mai Tai to the Manhattan• Original artist-created colouring designs of each of the cocktails—no AI, no stock images!• As fun to read as it is to colour! Every recipe includes an interesting backstory about the cocktail and a quote that celebrates the delights and comic downfalls of tossing one back (or one too many!). • The perfect gift! Hardback with a beautiful printed case featuring foil stamping and decorative spot varnish, gold gilded pages, and colouring designs printed on premium heavyweight paper.Bartender Hannah Kingsley provides the recipes for 38 classic cocktails as well as fun facts about their origins. With a drink in hand, you can then sit down to colour artist Maria Francesca Melis’s delightful original rendering of the same cocktail. Feel the stress fall away with every sip and every stroke. Your mood is guaranteed to be further lifted by the quotes that appear with each drink (“Vermouth always makes me brilliant, unless it makes me idiotic, but we’ll hope for the best.”—E. F. Benson).Whether it’s a Paloma, Cosmopolitan, Margarita, or Dark ’n Stormy, colour yourself calm and contented!