The Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820351598 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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The recipes themselves are creative and appealing, and sections on tools and techniques offer practical tips for throwing a great twenty-first-century cocktail party, Southern-style. (Susan Puckett author of Eat Drink Delta) . If this book were sitting next to me at a bar, I'd gladly buy it a drink just to enjoy its company. Information on prohibition dance caves, the association between the mint julep and the Antebellum South, or why New Orleans can be considered the center of Southern cocktail making fill the pages of this luscious book. The Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails is full of tantalizing recipes, beautiful photographs, and wonderful stories of the people and places that helped cocktails flourish in the American South. Though this b
Milam and Slater also share information on essential tools and glassware with which to stock the home bar, as well as mixing and garnishing techniques.In addition, the book contains fifteen fun and informative essays on drink culture, including a profile of white whiskey whisperer Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton by historian Mark Essig, a piece on the kitschy pleasure of collecting figurative decanters by syndicated OC Weekly and ¡Ask a Mexican! columnist Gustavo Arellano, and an essay by the dean of cocktail history, David Wondrich, on “The Future of Southern Drinking.”Lest we drink on an empty stomach, recipes for cocktail bites are provided by multiple James Beard Award nominee Vishwes
She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.. Harper Station. He lives in Bostwick, Georgia.Sara Camp Milam is the Southern Foodways Alliance’s managing editor. Jerry Slater has extensive experience in hospitality and management and has gained critical accolades for his beverage programs at such venues as the Oakroom at the Seelbach Hotel, One Flew South,