Clair McLafferty is a craft bartender and writer based in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2013, she quit her office job to learn the art of craft bartending after writing about the local scene. Making drinks fed into researching and writing about them, and her current occupation was born. She is the author of The Classic & Craft Cocktail Recipe Book: The Definitive Guide to Mixing Perfect Cocktails from Aviation to Zombie (Rockridge Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in The Bitter Southerner, Mental Floss, The Food Network, and more. For more of her writing, visit clairmclafferty.com. Abraham Rowe Photography is based in Florence, Alabama, and work in commercial, documentary, and editorial photography. They offer expertise in photo styling, as well as product, lifestyle, and food photography for manufacturing companies, artisans, musicians, e-commerce businesses, and food brands. Their work has been printed in Elle Décor, Local Palate, Rolling Stone, The National, Garden & Gun, Southern Living, Relix, No-Ala Magazine, and Business Alabama as well as online at Kinfolk, The Bitter Southerner, Cottage Hill, Local Milk, Paste Magazine, and The New York Times T Magazine.
