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Cooking With Irish Spirits

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This is absolutely an awesome cookbook. Being Irish, wanting to go to Ireland, and loving to cook made this a must have.Highly recommended for anyone who likes to cook. Kathy

The Irish spirit cookbook was recommended by a friend. I bought the book with one recipe in mind, the Gaelic Steak. I was told that it was excellent!.. I must say she was right! Every recipe that I have made since has been equally as satisfying. I have found the ingredients in the recipes easy to find in local stores. The recipes are easy to follow, and each contains a bit of history of the dish. The photograpy is excellent and pictures of the finished recipes (availalable for many of the dishes) make it easy to make your dish attractive as well as tasty. I have found the glossary and the table of equivalents in the back of the book helpful with other cooking as well.

If you are a Vegan, this book is not for you. The recipes are of a hearty kind. The presentation is superb as are the photographs. Tradition mixed with new age. A delight for the pallette. Just remember the spirits are for the cooking not the drinking before hand. Highly recommended to any who enjoy food at it's best.

Just to point out, this is a cookie cutter new wave recipe cookbook. Not that I'm knocking it down or anything but honestly it doesn't leave me room to inspire. It has many recipes like generally every other typical Irish cookbook out there. What makes this a book that I like to read though is the collection of whiskey history. A great gift to any Irish Whiskey lover. And even better if they aren't the best cook. Many of these recipes are kind of a throw together and forget it or simple like traditional American style recipes. Nothing too gourmet or complicated. I hope I'm not making it sound like a bad book, but I honestly just expected a lot more from it. I've basically read it and then stuffed it on a shelf. When I'm looking for real Irish inspiration I turn to Darina Allen's Irish Traditional book.