{"id":237,"date":"2024-03-15T02:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/?p=237"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:57:38","slug":"cocktailbook-haperitief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/cocktailbook-haperitief\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocktail foodpairing book Haperitief! (Antwerp)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>I wrote a book <\/strong>&#8211; together with foodie Stephanie Bex &#8211; about aperitivo time! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>&#8220;Haperitief!&#8221; is a play of words that combines the Dutch word &#8220;Hap&#8221; (taking a bite) and &#8220;aperitief&#8221; (aperitif). It&#8217;s also the name of a TV show on the Belgian TV station <em>njam!<\/em> with Michelin-star chef Bart Desmidt, Jeroen De Pauw (one of Belgian most famous TV chefs) and cocktail queen Hannah Van Ongevalle.  Njam! asked Stephanie and me to turn <strong>the concept of the TV show into a book with 40+ new recipes<\/strong>. We paired 40 festive bites &amp; snacks with +40 cocktails and wrote some guidelines of pairing food with drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I researched many classic cocktails and brought them into the modern times with <em>improved<\/em> recipes, <em>at least according to my own taste<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the photograhpy of this book we worked with <strong>food photographer Roos Mestdagh<\/strong> &#8211; always great to work with her!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body1-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body1-768x438.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body2-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body2-768x437.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Haperitief!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMthkgzmKH4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TV ad for the book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body3.jpg 400w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body4.jpg 400w, http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cases_haperitief_body4-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/writing-photography\/\">More info about my content creation services<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Together with foodie Stephanie Bex I wrote a book on foodparing for festive occasions! 40+ combinations of delightful food paired with great cocktails!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[32,30,33,34,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misternegroni.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}