Cool Waters: 50 Refreshing, Healthy, Homemade Thirst Quenchers

Can water really be cool? Most definitely—if it’s enhanced, infused, and revved up with these thirst-quenching recipes that turn ordinary water into extraordinary, healthful, tasty beverages. Cool Waters shows you how to take water to the next level.

Start with Quick Quenchers—recipes like Honeydew-Mint Mist and Blueberry Twist that feature just a few ingredients and easy steps to get you going. Nutricious Nectars such as Liquid Iron and Eau de Carotte deliver the superior rehydration and other benefits of commercial sports drinks, without any added sweeteners or unpronounceable ingredients. In the Special Sippers chapter, you’ll travel the waters of the world with such enticing concoctions as Key Lime and Vanilla Spritzer and Fruta Bomba. As if that weren’t enough, there’s also a chapter on making specially flavored ice cubes and a guide to creating your own personalized flavored waters. Lovely color photos throughout amply demonstrate that water doesn’t have to be boring anymore.

With Cool Waters, it’s so easy and economical to create pure, one-of-a-kind waters free of caffeine, added sugar, excess calories, and artificial sweeteners, colors, and flavors. And these waters won’t add more plastic bottles to the nation’s landfills. They’re perfect for athletes and other active people, families on the go, hosts and hostesses looking for special nonalcoholic party drinks—in short, anyone who’s ever been, or will ever be, thirtsty. So come on in, the water’s fine!

Fresh, Flavorful, Fabulous!

Recipes include:
Squirt of Citrus
Red Cherry Spritzer
Rose Water with Lemon
Pressed Watermelon with Basil Water
Pineapple and Lime Seltzer
Workout Fuel
Cucumberade
Orange and Tamarind Elixer
Antioxidant Power
Thai Red Plum Fizz
Tangerine-Ginger Cubes
Strawberry-Kiwi Cubes

Brian Preston-Campbell is a professional food stylist and former chef. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, he has brought his talent for food styling to national ad campaigns for such companies as Starbucks, Absolut, Nestle, Godiva, and Smucker’s. His creative food styling has also appeared in magazines such as O: The Oprah Magazine,The New York Times Magazine, Prevention, and Men’s Health. In addition, he was the food stylist for several books, including The Sneaky Chef and Good Spirits, winner of an IACP Cookbook Award for Food Photography and Styling. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.