Bitterman's Field Guide to Bitters & Amari: 500 Bitters; 50 Amari; 123 Recipes for Cocktails, Food & Homemade Bitters

by Mark Bitterman

[Softcover - Vinyl]

The most comprehensive handbook available on selecting, understanding, mixing, and cooking with bitters, for everyone from professional bartenders and chefs to casual entertainers and home cooks. 
 
Hundreds of cocktail bitters are on the market, and millions are turning to them to add punch, pizzazz, and complexity to their cocktails and even their cooking. But the storm of exciting brands and flavors has even the savviest bartenders puzzled over their personalities and best uses. Bitterman's Field Guide to Bitters and Amari is the handbook that decodes today’s burgeoning selection of bitters, along with their kindred spirits amari and shrubs, complete with 190 photographs.
 
The introduction includes everything you need to know to understand what bitters and amari are and how to use them. recipes for making essential and inventive bitters at home. The next section offers 123 recipes for making essential bitters at home, mixing, and cooking bitters, from a Burnt Grapefruit Gimlet to a Martini Julep, from Bittered Bittersweet Chocolate Torte to BBQ Pork Ribs with Bittersweet BBQ Sauce. Bitterman's Field Guide to Bitters and Amari cracks open the full potential of bitters, inspiring and empowering people to try them. The final section includes a comprehensive field guide to the wide world of the more than 500 great bitters and 50 amari available today. Complete with tasting notes, profiles of important makers and brand photography, the guide gives everyone from pro bartenders to home cooks a solid foundation for buying and using bitters.

 

About the Author:

Mark Bitterman a leading expert on culinary salt, chocolate, and cocktail bitters. 

Mark won a James Beard Award for his first book, Salted. His second book, Salt Block Cooking, again pioneered new concepts in cooking, leading the charge into the culinary adventure of cooking on salt blocks. 

Mark is the owner of the specialty store, The Meadow (www.themeadow.com), with locations in Portland, OR and New York City. The shops carry among the largest selection of artisan salts, salt blocks, cocktail bitters, and chocolate bars available. Mark is also the founder of Bitterman Salt Co. (www.bittermansalt.co), delivering hand-made salts that unite flavor, sustainability, and social responsibility. 


 

(6BITTFLDG)

SKU 6BITTFLDG
Barcode # 9781449470692
Shipping Weight 0.6960kg
Shipping Width 18cm
Shipping Height 2cm
Shipping Length 24cm

By: on 7 March 2017
Great book for beginners
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