The internationally acclaimed festival of cocktails, cuisine and culture returns for its seventh year in New Orleans, July 8-12, 2009. The event brings together the best and brightest of the cocktail community—award-winning mixologists, authors, bartenders and chefs—for a five-day French Quarter celebration of the history and the craft of the cocktail. This year, the most spirited event of the summer invites everyone to “Stir Your Soul” with a spirited series of dinners, cocktail demos, tastings, competitions, seminars, book signings, tours and special events all perfectly paired with some of the best cocktails ever made.
planning, implementation and promotion of the event. Through the years, she has established partnerships with premium liquor brands and magazines while garnering extensive national media coverage.
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Tales of the Cocktail features more than 100 separate ticketed events and also offers ticket packages online while supplies last.
Special features include:
*Purchase a ticket to any Tales of the Cocktail seminar or special event and receive a complimentary CD of New Orleans Jazz. Individual events range from $25.00 to $75.00 with all seminars priced at $40.00 per person.
*Purchase tickets to any three Tales of the Cocktail seminars or events and receive a free copy of one of four cocktail classics created for Tales of the Cocktail by Mud Puddle Books, Inc. The Tales of the Cocktail Seminars/Event Include:
1. The Modern Bartender's Guide by O.H. Byron (a facsimile of the 1884 edition) with an introduction by Brian Rea.
Cocktail Fresh Market
The Duque Coffee Bar
The Duque Coffee Bar
The Duque Coffee Bar Special Events Hosted All Week Long During Tales of The Cocktail

Wednesday, July 16 – Sunday, July 20
Tales of the Cocktail Bookstore at the Hotel Monteleone
Presented by Borders Books and Music and Chronicle Books
Daily in the Hotel Monteleone lobby, featuring “Shots of Inspiration,” a series of book signings by authors of cocktail and culinary literature. The signings are part of the five-day festival, Tales of the Cocktail, in which the authors preside as cocktail experts at various seminars, dinners and events.
World’s Largest Collaborative Cocktail Blog
Presented by Cabana Cachaca
Invitation Only
In 2008, Tales of the Cocktail will be working closely with more than 20 of the most dedicated and widely read bloggers covering the world of spirits and cocktails. This list includes blogs such as The Cocktail Chronicles, Kaiser Penguin, Art of Drink, Jeffrey Morgenthaler and The Gumbo Pages, and together these bloggers will be working to publicize the many aspects of Tales of the Cocktail, from seminars to Spirited Dinners to the mixologists who make Tales of the Cocktal a one of a kind event.
Beginning in April, bloggers from throughout North America will provide advance previews of Tales of the Cocktail sessions and events, both on their own blogs as well as on a special Tales of the Cocktail group blog to be posted at talesofthecocktail.wordpress.com. From July 16-20, these bloggers will gather in New Orleans to provide live coverage of Tales of the Cocktail, and will also celebrate the first-ever live session of Mixology Monday, a monthly worldwide spirits-and-cocktail blog event that has attracted dozens of participants and tens of thousands of readers since 2006.