Anistatia R Miller

Drinks historian and publisher Anistatia Miller is co-author along with her husband Jared Brown of a few dozen books on spirits and drinks, including the world's best-selling book on the king of cocktails, Shaken Not Stirred(R) A Celebration of the Martini. Recipients of the 2016 IMBIBE Magazine Personality of the Year Award for Industry Legends as well as the 2011 IWSC Communicators of the Year Award, the couple wrote the award-winning two-volume tome, Spirituous Journey: A History of Drink,...See more

Drinks historian and publisher Anistatia Miller is co-author along with her husband Jared Brown of a few dozen books on spirits and drinks, including the world's best-selling book on the king of cocktails, Shaken Not Stirred(R) A Celebration of the Martini. Recipients of the 2016 IMBIBE Magazine Personality of the Year Award for Industry Legends as well as the 2011 IWSC Communicators of the Year Award, the couple wrote the award-winning two-volume tome, Spirituous Journey: A History of Drink, tracing alcoholic beverages from 7000BC to the 20th century. Other titles include The Mixellany Guide to Vermouth and Other Apéritifs, Champagne Cocktails, and Cuban Cocktails. Miller was a co-founder of the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans and is former co-director of Exposition Universelle des Vins et Spiritueux in southern France. She serves as curator of the EUVS Digital Collection (www.euvslibrary.com), a free online library of vintage cocktail and drinks books dating back to the 1750s. Miller organises and hosts the International Havana Club Cocktail Grand Prix in Havana, Cuba. She lives in the Cotswolds with her husband Jared Brown and cat where she maintains a 1200+ volume collection of books on drink plus a research garden of drink and cocktail botanicals in addition to chickens and quail. See less