Webers Big Book of Grilling or Everyday Drinking

Weber's Big Book of Grilling: 350 All New Recipes

Author: Jamie Purvianc

Building on the tremendous success of Weber's Art of the Grill (over 100,000 copies sold!), the world's best-known and most trusted grilling experts bring us the ultimate in barbecue cookbooks. Destined to become a sauce-stained classic, it's packed with 350 of the tastiest and most reliable recipes ever to hit the grill, hundreds of mouthwatering full-color photos, and countless sure-fire, time-honored techniques and tricks of the trade guaranteed to turn anyone into a barbecue champion. For the chef who's barely flipped a burger to the local grilling guru, here's all the advice and all the fabulous food required to wow the neighborhood--and at a price that's as red hot as the coals!

Publishers Weekly

This book is clearly designed to sell more grills. While Purviance (Weber's Art of the Grill), food editor of Appellation magazine, and McRae, Weber's in-house poet, offer many a delightful starter, entr e and dessert, the corporate affiliation of this book remains pervasive, like an unsavory aftertaste. Perhaps it's the way the authors unconvincingly strive to be homey, assuring us, for instance, that ketchup as they know it is always spelled with a "K." Or that many anecdotes revolve around a Weber success story, like the time a prime rib dinner helped the company clinch a large distribution contract with Sears. But tackiness aside, the book cannot be faulted for a lack of variety from beef recipes (Stuffed Herbed Tenderloin filled with a paste of rosemary, thyme, sage and mustard, Peanut-Curry Flank Steak) to turkey (Jalape o-Peach Turkey Breast, Firehouse Turkey seasoned with cayenne) to seafood (Tequila Shrimp, Gingered Mussels, Parmesan Breaded Scallops). The book is well stocked with helpful charts, glossaries and lists the dessert chapter includes 11 variations of S'mores. Unhappily, though, while Tim Turner's luscious photographs occupy many a full- and double-page spreads, the recipes are crammed two to a page in small type, making this book hard to use on the fly, or in the yard. (June) Forecast: With a foreword by Today Show weatherman Al Roker (who contributes his own rub recipe to the book), lush cover images and strong brand recognition, this book should sell well, but the promotional bonhomie will turn off purists. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	6
	Introduction	8
	What You Need to Know About the Recipes	10
	The Grilling Gospel According to Weber	12
	Sauces, Marinades, & Rubs	40
	Starters	56
	Beef	86
	Pork	150
	Lamb	190
	Game	206
	Poultry	222
	Fish & Seafood	278
	Vegetables	324
	Sides & Salads	348
	Desserts	376
	Appendix	396
	Index	408
	Acknowledgments	416

Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Author: Kingsley Amis

A gift for anyone who loves good liquor and high-proof prose: a collection of hilarious and deeply informed writings about drink from one of the all-time authorities.
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject. Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) the book includes Amis’s musings on The Hangover, The Boozing Man’s Diet, What to Drink with What, and (presumably as a matter of speculation) How Not to Get Drunk—all leavened with fun quizzes on the making and drinking of alcohol all over the world. Mixing practical know-how and hilarious opinionation, this is a delightful cocktail of wry humor and distilled knowledge, served by one of our great gimlet wits.

The New York Times - Dwight Garner

Amis published three books about the judicious but enthusiastic consumption of alcohol: On Drink, Everyday Drinking in 1983 and How's Your Glass? in 1984. Long out of print, these volumes have finally been gathered together and reissued under a single cover, topped off with a fizzy introduction by Christopher Hitchens. These books are so delicious they impart a kind of contact high; they make you feel as if you've just had the first sip of the planet's coldest, driest martini.

Christine Holmes - Library Journal

This book by Amis, the late British writer best known for the classic Lucky Jim, is a collection of three out-of-print works written between 1971 and 1984 about drink, its history, social mores, and etiquette. There are background details as well as a glossary for those unfamiliar with British terms such as bitter and off license. Some chapters are entertaining and occasionally hilarious, but taken as a whole the essays are an uneven mix of opinion, wry humor, and practical know-how; they clearly reflect the period in which they were written, particularly those having to do with wine. California and other wine-producing regions that took the international stage in more recent years receive no mention, naturally. Additionally, appreciating British humor is an acquired taste, so the volume may be perceived as having limited appeal. There are, however, insightful and funny observations, such as those having to do with the relationship among a country, its cuisine, and its alcoholic beverages. Recommended for large public libraries.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Muse of Booze Christopher Hitchens Hitchens, Christopher

I On Drink

Introduction

Drinking Literature

Actual Drinks

Tools of the Trade

The Store Cupboard

First Thoughts on Wine

Further Thoughts on Wine

Wine Shopper's Guide

What to Drink with What

Abroad

Mean Sod's Guide (Incorporating Mean Slag's Guide)

The Hangover

The Boozing Man's Diet

How Not to Get Drunk

II Every Day Drinking

III How's Your Glass?

Introduction

List of Abbreviations

Quizzes

Wine - Elementary

Wine - Intermediate

Wine - Advanced

Wine - France

Wine - Germany

Wine - Italy, Spain, Portugal

Wines - Others

Beer in General

Beer in Particular

Vodka

Aperitifs and Such

Gin

Liqueurs

Rum

Cognac and Armagnac

Brandy (One Step Down)

Distillation

Minor Spirits

Scotch Whiskey I

Scotch Whiskey II

Whiskies and Whiskeys

Port

Sherry

Madeira, Marsala and Others

Cocktails and Mixed Drinks

Inventors and Inventions

Pousse - Cafe I

Pousse - Cafe II

Pousse - Cafe III

Alcohol and Your Interior

Answers

Index