Food and drink writer Signe Johansen, wants you to take her lead when it comes to making the perfect cocktail. Having written six cookbooks already, she has her hands full creating drinks that are unique, elegant, and fresh while making sure that all the ingredients are in perfect balance.
According to Johansen, there’s no such thing as a gendered drink, and both men and women can enjoy her cocktails depending on their particular taste. “I grew up in Norway and we didn’t have these gendered ideas of what an ‘appropriate’ drink for a woman was,” she explained in an interview with Khoollect. “If you wanted a beer, you drank a beer. If you wanted a whisky, you drank a whisky. Both my parents love whisky (my mother’s more of a bourbon drinker, but she’s a fan of a whisky sour with scotch) and over the years I just tried whatever they had.”
A whiskey-gal herself, her relaxed approach to both cooking and drinking has attracted an impressive following. With some 13k followers on Instagram and pieces published on esteemed publications like The Times, Sunday Times, and Marie Claire, Johansen clearly knows what she’s doing. Having trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London, she also worked in several of the UK’s top restaurants and went on to do her Masters in the anthropology of food at SOAS food studies center at the University of London.
Her book, Spirited, is a must have for cocktail lovers.
