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Emma Janzen

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Covers:  Spirits with provenance, such as Mexican spirits (tequila, mezcal, sotol, rum, etc.), gin, rum, etc.; world's best cocktail bars
Spirits & Cocktail Journalist | Author/Coauthor | JBFA 🏅🏅 + TOTC🏅🏅 | @IACP Finalist | USA Midwest Academy Chair @50bestbars (She/Her)

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Emma Janzen is a spirits and cocktail journalist, photographer, and award-winning book author. In addition to contributing to The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, she has been nominated for four James Beard Foundation awards, with The Way of the Cocktail winning for best beverage book with recipes in 2022, and The Bartender's Manifesto winning the same award in 2023. Formerly the digital editor at Imbibe magazine (US) she has since penned stories about global spirits and cocktail cult…

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A James Beard Award-Winning Bartender Shares His Secrets for Making an Old-Fashioned

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By Toby Maloney, Emma Janzen Verified
| Men's Journal Verified
Of all the moments in history to behold a huge intuitive leap for the benefit of mankind, I’ll pass on the discovery of fire or the invention of the fulcrum or the first time a wheel rolled into motion in favor of watching the first barkeep stir bitters into whiskey with sugar and a little lump of ice. The glory of that moment still reverberates a million times a night at bars all around the world. It was a moment as momentous as the introduction of the polio vaccine, or rock and roll.
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Care, community and craft: hospitality and humanity from Chicago’s Kumiko

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By Emma Janzen Verified, William Thomas Drew Verified, Emma Sleight
| The World’s 50 Best Verified
For Kumiko in Chicago, great hospitality means much more than stellar service. In Japan, the term omotenashi translates as the selfless, intentional act of care for others, without the expectation of anything in return. Its roots come from tea ceremony culture, equating to what the Western world would simply call 'good hospitality'.
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8 outstanding cocktail menus from around the world

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By Emma Janzen Verified, William Thomas Drew Verified, Emma Sleight, Rachael Hogg Verified
| The World’s 50 Best Verified
From dogmatic declarations to digital dalliances, these world-class menus set the standard for creative storytelling through cocktails. Menu design runs the gamut at cocktail bars around the world. When executed well, a menu can stimulate the mind and sense of thirst, spark joy and give us deeper insights into the time and place in which the bar operates.
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Awards

James Beard

2022 - Best Book - Beverage with Recipes

Emma Janzen co-authored The Way of the Cocktail with Julia Momosé.

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