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Bourbon Land: A Spirited Love Letter to My Old Kentucky Whiskey, with 50 Recipes
✍️ Lee, Edward
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📝 Description: Bourbon Land: A Spirited Love Letter to My Old Kentucky Whiskey, with 50 Recipes
In his highly anticipated follow-up to the James Beard Award-winning Buttermilk Graffiti, Edward Lee examines his favorite libation--bourbon--with recipes, essays, history, profiles, distillery tours, and more. Knowledgeable, entertaining, and more than a little infatuated with his subject, award-winning food writer and chef Edward Lee gives us his insight into bourbon, telling us everything we should know about the mellow honey-brown treasure that's put Kentucky on the global map: How bourbon is made. Its history. How to read a label. A look inside the famous distilleries. The influence of oak. Tours of Kentucky's bourbon regions. How to taste bourbon like a professional. And, in the most delicious surprise, how to cook with bourbon, with 50 recipes from Bourbon-Glazed Chicken Wings and Blackened Salmon with Bourbon-Soy Marinade to a Bourbon and Butterscotch Pudding. Plus the best Old-Fashioned you'll ever mix! Named a Best New Cookbook of Spring 2024 by Eater, Epicurious, and Food & Wine
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While engaging for fans of Lee’s previous work, this book may disappoint those seeking rigorous technical distillation science or deep historical archives. It functions more as a spirited love letter than a definitive academic reference. Readers looking for complex, niche regional variations beyond Kentucky might find the scope somewhat narrow. However, for the casual enthusiast who enjoys food writing mixed with drink culture, it offers a charming, well-illustrated journey. The tone is infatuated and entertaining, prioritizing accessibility over dense scholarship. It suits those who want to cook with spirits rather than just study their chemistry.
