Carey Jones and John McCarthy

John McCarthy and Carey Jones are contributing writers at Serious Eats.

Location: San Francisco, California

The couple writes a weekly column "Liquor Cabinet Roulette" for Food & Wine's website, where they specialize in creating accessible and deliciously inventive cocktails for the home bartender.
They co-authored Be Your Own Bartender (2018), designing the "first-ever flowchart cocktail book" with more than 165 original recipes. Their cocktail creations are featured in Serious Eats.
Carey is the author of Brooklyn Bartender: A Modern Guide to Cocktail and Spirits (2016). She writes about food, drink, and travel for The New York Times, Bon Appetit, Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Bloomberg Pursuits, and Saveur.

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Carey Jones and John McCarthy have been collaborating since they met in 2012 when Carey wrote an article profiling his cocktail program. She jokes, "The drinks were so good, I married him." The couple writes a weekly drinks column "Liquor Cabinet Roulette" for Food & Wine's website, where they specialize in creating accessible and deliciously inventive cocktails for the home bartender. They co-wrote Be Your Own Bartender: A Sure-Fire Guide to Finding (and Making) Your Perfect Cocktail (2018), designing the "first-ever flowchart cocktail book" with more than 165 original recipes. Their cocktail creations are featured in Serious Eats.

Carey authored Brooklyn Bartender: A Modern Guide to Cocktail and Spirits (2016), which features 300 inventive cocktail recipes capturing the excitement of Brooklyn's renowned bar scene. She writes on food, drink, and travel for numerous print and digital publications, including The New York Times, Bon Appetit, Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Bloomberg Pursuits, and Saveur.

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