Spice & Ice
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Feeling hot, hot, hot? If you order your Caesars extra spicy and your taste buds love to tingle, you'll love Spice & Ice by New York based food, wine and spirits writer Kara Newman. Even if you're not the type to order a heaping pile of suicide wings, I'm sure you'll still find some yummy and flavourful drinks to suit you in this hard-hitting collection of 70 cocktails.
Spice & Ice offers up cocktails featuring a steamy batch of hot and spicy drink ingredients including, among other things, jalapeno hot sauce, chipotle pepper powder and habanero peppers. Scared? Don't be. Artistically balanced with other ingredients to create concoctions with powerful punch, these drinks will challenge your palate without knocking you out. There are also many recipes that are not hot at all, just sensationally savoury. With this book you will learn to adjust the heat so that you can make the perfect drink for anyone.
The cocktails in this book are unique and visually stunning, elegantly illustrated by the photography of Antonis Achilleos. I love a handsome garnish and all of the drinks featured here are stunningly dressed, even the ice cubes in some cases. There are some very interesting sections in this book, including info about making your own garnishes and a wonderful how-to about creating your own spice-infused liquors and syrups. Yet other areas describe the spectrum of flavours possible in cocktails (from sweet to savoury to spicy), the do's and don'ts of making spicy drinks and tips for extinguishing the flames should you go a little overboard with the heat.
Here are some delicious recipes from Spice & Ice:
• Diablo
• The Fiery Almond
• Gin and Tonic with Spiced Ice
Trust me, you're next party is going to sizzle if you start shaking and stirring with Spice & Ice. I'm confident this beautiful little drink book, with its novel recipes and lovely photography, would be a welcome addition to the collection of any bartender or drink enthusiast that is ready to experience something new and exciting.
For more information about author Kara Newman, visit www.karanewman.net
Title: Spice & Ice
Author: Kara Newman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 978-0-8118-6667-5
Price: US $16.95/$21.95 CAN
Pages: 160
