Mix Shake Stir: Recipes from Danny Meyer's Acclaimed New York City Restaurants.(Brief article)(Book review)

Mix Shake Stir: Recipes from Danny Meyer's Acclaimed New York City Restaurants Danny Meyer. Little, Brown, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-04512-4

Meyer has long been a hero to New York City restaurant goers via his eclectic and acclaimed eateries--the upscale Gramercy Tavern, exotic Tabla and low-down Blue Smoke and Shake Shack. Now, perhaps in a nod to the economic climate, Meyer befriends the stay-at-home crowd with an excellent guide to the affordable luxury known as the artisanal cocktail. Resisting the capitalistic impulse to crank out a book representing each of his establishments, he instead pulls recipes from all of them, 140 in toto, providing enough martinis, highballs …