Spirits & Liqueurs Cookbook

by Stuart Walton and Norma Miller

Book Overview

Stuart Walton and Norma Miller offer an intr oduction to the world of spirits, liqueurs and elixirs, cove ring the discovery of distillation, ancient and modern metho ds of production and a set of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859674151
• ISBN13: 9781859674154
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Lorenz Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.4" x 12.1"

Customer Reviews

For tasty and exciting food

The book is divided in two roughly equal halfs, where the first focus on the spirits and liqueurs themselves, with a bit of history and methods of production as well as serving suggestions. This is a good introduction to various types of drinks and brands, but don't expect too much details.The second half, which to my mind is the real essence of the book, presents 100 recipes of soups, starters and main dishes using alcohol such as Pastis, Cognac, Gin, Sherry, Calvados, Vermouth, Whisky, and cakes and desserts using Kirsch, Malibu, Apricot brandy, Curacao, Rum, Port, Coffe liqueur etc.I have tried about 20 of the recipes, and I must say that almost all have resulted in very delightful food experiences(and the few ones that have not, may well be better explained by my occasional clumsiness as a cook instead of there being anything wrong with the recipe). The most striking thing is that the alcohol really contributes a lot to the taste and is not just some hardly noticeable thing in the background that only works as an impressive addition to the name of the recipe.For these reasons, and also because I know of no other book that cover this field as broadly as this one, I warmly recommend it, especially if you happen to have a collection of spirits and liqueurs at home anyway, but only used it for other purposes so far.

informative, entertaining, comprehensive

Stiart Walton has a sense of humor and a sense of asthetics and taste. Besides an interesting history and description of spirits and liquers, there are drink recipes and photographs, complete with the suggested glassware to be used. The food recipes with spirits are doable, and have clear step by step photos. I am a cookbook collector and a sometimes cook! This volume makes me want to drink, eat and be merry - in that order!