- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Food & Wine (Jan 1 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1603208828
- ISBN-13: 978-1603208826
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 1.3 x 19 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
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#293,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #54 in Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Drinks & Beverages > Wine > Food & Wine
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Product Description
As a scene-scooping, style-setting annual, Food & Wine Cocktails 2011 always keeps tabs on the hottest trends in bars, restaurants and lounges. The 160+ cocktails here have been created by some of the country's best mixologists. Each chapter focuses on a particular spirit-gin, vodka, whiskey-and every page highlights one or two exceptional cocktails, along with interesting anecdotes about these cocktails. Other highlights include:
- A "Cocktail Clinic" which offers tips on stocking the bar with essential glassware and tools, as well as a liquor lexicon, which provides valuable inspiration on the best and newest spirits around
- An invaluable Black Book of the Top 100 Spots to Drink around the country, including their names, addresses, and phone numbers
- A chapter on the very best bar food from the hippest spots around the country
About the Author
Food & Wine is the modern, stylish, trend-spotting, talent-seeking epicurean magazine. It has an overall audience of 7 million readers with a passionate interest in, and an adventurous approach to cooking, wine, entertaining, restaurants and travel. The magazine also boasts a partnership with Bravo's Top Chef reality series.
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My go-to, April 4 2012
By Fiona - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Food & Wine Cocktails 2011: An indispensable mix of excellent cocktails and food to go with them, plus the ultimate guide to the top bars and lounges around the country. (Paperback)
I love this book! I've been very slowly working my way through its vast array of recipes, and have yet to find one that disappoints, (though certainly, I enjoy some more than others), every single one of them have clearly been put through a "quality" test of subtlety and balance. Some of my favorites include The English Harvest, The Foghorn, The Longsdale, The Nicosia, The Bobby Boucher, The Aster Family Sour, The Heirloom and The Vixen.I also enjoy that the book is divided into categories off of their base ingredient. I often "feel like" a gin-drink tonight, or whiskey or rum, etc, and it's so handy to just flip to that chapter. The mocktails are appreciated and tasty as well.
I personally had no difficulty with having all the appropriate ingredients for almost all of the drinks, but perhaps this is because my bar sensibility is very similar to the editor's. In addition to a set of good base ingredients (light and dark rum, gin, bourbon, scotch, tequila, vodka, brandy), you're going to want to have at least one bitters (best bet angostura), Aperol or Campari, Chartreuse (either yellow or green), dry and sweet vermouth and St Germain. If you want a bit more coverage you might also grab some apple brandy, ginger liqueur, Cynar, Lillet Blanc, Benedictine and some Amaro. With even just the first set, though, and some fresh citrus you can make the many of the drinks in the book. Now admittedly, that's what a more "retro" bar looks like. And most folks bars are instead filled with Malibu, flavored vodkas, Midori, etc. And you will have no luck with those kinds of ingredients in this book.
I highly recommend making room in your bar for some of the more layered and interesting Italian herbal liqueurs, and ditching the sugary stuff.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
All I want to do is mix myself a drink!, Nov 18 2011
By Corrie Snell - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Food & Wine Cocktails 2011: An indispensable mix of excellent cocktails and food to go with them, plus the ultimate guide to the top bars and lounges around the country. (Paperback)
I own, and have enjoyed F&W's Cocktails 2010. Many sticky pages in that book.Last night, I went through the 2011 edition. Now, I have what I would consider a full bar: Vodka, vermouth, rum (white, dark, and old), tequila (silver and reposado), gin, Grand Marnier, whiskey, genever, Passoa (passion fruit), cognac and American brandy, white and dark chocolate liqueurs, Baileys, Kahlua, green chartreuse, absinthe, vin d'orange, galliano, benedictine, St. Germain, amaretto, kirsch, Jagermeister, Campari, Hpnotiq, calvados, plum schnapps, mead, chestnut and walnut liqueurs, peppermint schnapps, crème de menthe, port, Tuaca, vanilla liqueur and black cherry liqueur. I also have Peychaud's and Angostura bitters, rose and orange blossom waters, lemons, limes, and oranges, Champagne and sparkling wine, tonic water, club soda, and seltzer water, and a very well stocked pantry and herb garden.
The ONLY drinks I had all the ingredients for were the Margarita (I LOVE Margaritas, have my own special recipe, didn't buy this book for a Margarita recipe), "Air Mail" (white rum, honey, lime and Champagne), "Wildflower" (this is what I ended up making; rum, cognac, lime, orange, maple syrup, sprinkle of cinnamon), and Victoria Room Punch (aged rum, lemon, agave, Earl Grey tea). Only four out of "More than 130 outstanding cocktails?!"
I came very close to being able to make several more: "darn, I don't have any blackberries!" Or, "darn, I don't have any ginger to make ginger simple syrup."
It's very clear that green chartreuse is out, yellow is in. It's also very clear that I need a bottle of maraschino liqueur. Oh, and a bottle of mezcal and a bottle of clove liqueur.
I don't mind that the drinks are really, really specialized. It just bugged me that it was so hard to find a drink that I could make last night. I'm willing to buy specialty stuff, like pineapple gum syrup.
Buy this book if you're planning a swanky cocktail party and are picking a few signature cocktails to serve. When I go out and buy the 4-5 new bottles of booze, and get some special syrups made, and try a dozen or so of the delicious sounding cocktails from this book, I will up its rating to three stars if they're good.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
the latest in stylish glassware, Oct 3 2011
By Dennis Klimko "House Spouse" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Food & Wine Cocktails 2011: An indispensable mix of excellent cocktails and food to go with them, plus the ultimate guide to the top bars and lounges around the country. (Paperback)
If you want to see the latest in stylish glassware, this is the book for you. If your looking to put a little twist in your home cocktail recipe file, I'd suggest you pass on this title. Don't be fooled by the "how-to" chapters for beginners at the front of book, Food & Wine Cocktails 2011 is for the professional. Here's a good example, a brandy cocktail called "El Capitan" (p112). The recipe calls for pisco, Carpano Antica Formula vermouth, Cynar, Fernet-Branca, creole shrub, and an orange twist for garnish. The orange twist was the only ingredient in my home bar. I even went to some of my favorite upscale watering holes and asked the bartenders, without success, if they had all the ingredients to assemble one for me to try. OK,OK, I live in Buffalo and up-scale watering hole may be an oxymoron.Maybe I'm being unfair. I fixed myself a bourbon Manhattan (Jim Beam bourbon, Martini sweet vermouth with Angostura aromatic bitters!) and had a second look. OK, I'll give it one and a half stars because I liked the pictures.
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