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Who hasn't read one of the most famous literary works of the 20th century and one of the best-selling in history, "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? Well, it starts right here (also through the colors of Serena Conti who took care of the illustrations) but with a more real setting, that limbo between dreams and reality that is hidden behind the counter of a cocktail bar, which in the end is the soul of every bartender.
Maybe a gamble to dare so much? Bringing the bar world closer to a work of this stature? “I reread the book, the Little Prince traveled through space getting to know different characters who taught him a lot. In my case it was people who came to my bar, and that's how I got to know them. Those who are my friends know what the trips in my head are capable of, I associate the many people I meet and in my "box" - the same as the original version that the aviator drew upon request from the child - I make them coexist. They become my characters and I talked about them for a long time thinking: they must enter the book!”.
From here begins the journey of one of the best-known bartenders in Italy, Flavio Angiolillo, (in Milan, together with his partners, he built an empire of five clubs including Mag, Iter, 1930 Secret Cocktail Bar, Backdoor, Barba, as well to Farmily, producer of distillates and not) who, together with Elena Ceschelli, had the right idea to tell the world of the bar, increasingly "marched" and misunderstood, in a different way, in full Angiolillo style.
Unlike Le Petit Prince, dedicated to the author's (child) friend, Leone Werth, this book is aimed at everyone, because they can better understand what happens in the places they frequent for their drinks, young people who want to take this path, experienced bartenders who should occasionally put their ego aside and concentrate more on the requests of those who order, and sometimes desire, only a simple American.