How to Drink

by Moore, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9780740785740
• ISBN10: 0740785745
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-18
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Summary

In the past few decades, many of us have become sophisticated about food, but we have not given the same attention to what we drink. In this inspiring book, Victoria Moore aims to redress the balance, by showing how to drink well throughout the seasons and at all times of day.She explains how to make the most delicious coffee and juices; how to choose wine that complements your food; and how to make cocktails for every occasion--whether to serve a garden barbecue, as a cold weather aperitif, or just to unwind with at the end of the day.Here are recipes for mint juleps in the spring, sloe gin in the autumn, hot buttered rum in the winter, and year-round showstoppers including the world's best gin and tonic. Moore is also an impassioned advocate of unfairly maligned drinks such as sherry, Campari and saki, and gives fascinating historical background on different spirits as well as invaluable advice on creating your home bar.

Author Biography

Victoria Moore lives in London and is Britain's brightest young wine critic. She has been writing professionally about drinking since 1998, when she landed a column in the New Statesman. She is now the wine writer for the Guardian and writes a weekly column in the Saturday Weekend magazine. She also works as a feature writer for the Daily Mail.

Table of Contents

About This Book	p. viii
Basics	p. 1
Stocking up	p. 4
Ice and other techniques	p. 17
Wine basics	p. 24
Breakfast & Brunch	p. 41
Weekday mornings	p. 45
Brunch	p. 72
Spring	p. 87
Sap rising	p. 91
Something a little harder	p. 99
Friends over	p. 103
Food and wine	p. 113
Thirst-quenchers	p. 117
Herbs from the garden: calming drinks	p. 122
Summer	p. 125
In the garden	p. 129
Lazy weekends	p. 133
Sultry heat	p. 144
Other summer sundowners	p. 164
Nonalcoholic refreshers	p. 166
Alfresco	p. 168
Summer wine: temperature control	p. 177
Pure hedonism	p. 180
Back-endish: when summer's heat starts to fade	p. 184
Autumn	p. 187
Aperitifs and digestives for evenings that are drawing in	p. 191
Midafternoon: something to invigorate weekend cooks and gardeners	p. 195
The apple harvest	p. 200
Food and drink to graze on	p. 205
Dinnertime	p. 214
Winter	p. 221
Christmas is coming	p. 225
Hot drinks from the stove	p. 232
Hibernation	p. 236
In from the cold: Warming up after walks across frozen fields	p. 240
A sip of something by the fire	p. 242
Something different	p. 248
Ice and snow	p. 259
Glamorous wine-and-food combinations for dark days	p. 266
Year-Round Showstoppers	p. 273
The martini	p. 277
Simple aperitifs	p. 283
Gin and tonic	p. 291
All-night drinks	p. 305
After dinner	p. 310
P.S...Five Useful Lists	p. 313
Acknowledgments	p. 322
Select Bibliography	p. 323
Index	p. 324
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