Cookbooks, cooking reads, and books about food
The Tipsy Vegan by John Schlimm Boozy Recipes Not Just for Party Fare While the recipes would be perfect party fare for any happy hour or get-together, they also inspire good eating any time of the year. The recipes include all menu items, but each …
Preparing your latest freshwater or saltwater catch? For your next backyard barbeque, serve up some fun cocktails that are ocean and water inspired or have a fun name that gets people in the mood for some seafaring treats. The Food & Wine Cocktails 2006 has …
“Every great drink starts with a plant,” so says Amy Stewart in The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Greatest Drinks.” Stewart should know; she’s also the author of Flower Confidential and Wicked Plants. The Drunken Botanist explores every botanical (160 species in …
The Tipsy Vegan: “Turn Every Bite Into Happy Hour” While the recipes would be perfect party fare for any happy hour or get-together, they also inspire good eating any time of the year. The recipes include all menu items, but each have something unifying them: …
A mixture history and recipe book for punches, The Punch Bowl by Dan Searing provides authoritative notes on classic favorites with color photos throughout. Dan Searing knows his punches. He’s the co-owner of Room 11 in D.C. featuring cocktails, fun food, and desserts, and his …
75 different treats that use alcohol. Spiked Desserts, from Fox Chapel Publishing, is a dessert book where every recipe is spiked with something, and the book engages readers to try 75 different luscious treats that use everything from bourbon and stout beer to …
Highlights from four different reprinted cookbooks from the mid-1900s. Fun to look back and see what we ate way back then, and how society was in general. The ABC of Canapes The ABC of Canapes was first published in 1953 when canapes containing pimentos and …