Cooking & Eating with Beer: 50 Chefs, Brewmasters, and Restaurateurs Talk about Beer and Food [Paperback]

Peter LaFrance (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 28, 1998

From the author of Beer Basics, comes a similarly accessible treatment of beer and food. In the only available publication to explain how professional chefs appreciate and use beer with their cuisines, top food journalist LaFrance introduces the principles of matching beer with food and offers a host of recipes using beer as an ingredient. This intriguing book also boasts a chart showing the ideal pairings of beer styles and food.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Although a host of books have celebrated the coupling of food and wine, few have examined how best to match food with beer. A few years ago, such an exercise would have been pointless, because beer dealers' shelves carried few alternatives to increasingly uniform, mass-produced American lagers. Then microbreweries boomed, beer imports soared, and consumers found themselves awash in torrents of distinctively different suds. LaFrance has scrutinized restaurants and breweries throughout the U.S. and Canada to uncover the latest efforts of chefs and brewers to wed food and beer into gustatory harmony. LaFrance briefly outlines beer-and ale-making styles and techniques before presenting a baker's dozen menus pairing contemporary American cooking with specialty brews. Tasting notes detail the menus' successes, and chefs have ample space to justify their food choices. Recipes allow home chefs to reproduce the restaurant dinners. Mark Knoblauch --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Publisher

An easy-to-read format book guides readers through the world of food and beer matching. Designed as a fundamental reference for persons who already have a respect for cooking and are discovering an interest in beer. Features interviews with 50 chefs, brewmasters, and restaurateurs from leading North American restaurants who share with you their special tips, techniques and recipes for using beer successfully in the kitchen and on the table. A flavor chart showing the styles of beer and foods best paired with each style helps explain how beer can be matched to the different foods. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 28, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471318795
• ISBN-13: 978-0471318798
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,345,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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