Customer Reviews

Sips & Apps: Classic and Contemporary Recipes for Cocktails and Appetizers

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I love this book...received it as a gift and now have purchased it for a friend and my brother for his 50th birthday. Recommends glass selection, many tips and very fun to make very interesting cocktails and appetizers. I will continue to buy it for other gifts!

A friend and I recently hosted a "Girl's Getaway weekend" to Sunriver, Oregon. As a hostess gift the girls gave each of us "Sips and Apps". This is a great book to reference for fun cocktails and apps. It will inspire you to make unique creations that you may not normally attempt. It is impossible to choose what recipe to try first, they are all so tempting and proven to be fabulous! The apps are great and fun! All the recipes are super easy to follow and the photography is great I love being able to see what the finished product should look like. I now have a few books on hand for a last minuite hostess gift.

This book is a great primer to 'cocktail culture'. The introduction challenges you to step away from premade mixes and make your own, and like any well crafted recipe, to measure. I like the use of all kinds of liquors, making each cocktail idea exciting and affordable. You might like to stock your liquor cabiniet with imports and top shelf selections, there is room to upgrade in every recipe, but for the rest of us, a bottle of pear vodka and a few fresh herbs is a economical inspiration for a backyard brunch. I'll take a Peach 75 at sunset anyday. Sip resposibly.

I recently gave this book to a friend for her birthday -- she is the official 'tini' mixer for a group of women when we get together to celebrate birthdays and other events. She was so taken with the book, that she turned around and gave copies of the book to the rest of us. Needless to say, the 'sips' are great -- I highly recommend the Tuscany Rosemary Lemon Drop -- definitely a hit with out group! We have also tried several of the 'apps' recipes (again, I recommend the Pineapple Salsa) and they have all been great. My only disappointment is that I would have liked even more 'apps' recipes!

I have so many appetizer and cocktail cookbooks, this one looked good...it doesn't really give you that much different than most other books...nice book to have if the price is right.

Kathy Casey has another perfect book of recipes. I never measured a drink until I tried cocktails in her other books, now I know why. They just taste better, like a real recipe...having the perfect ingredients measured well makes all the difference.

I really like this book. I don't have to plan too far in advance, the recipes are mostly simple and imaginative. Most importantly they impress my guests!

It has just about every cocktail recipe you could ever want and more! The ones I enjoy the most feature fresh fruit and berries in the recipes. And as always, Kathy has just the right appetizers that work with any of the cocktails. I wish she was my personal mixologist and chef at all of my parties as I would be the most popular hostess in town!

I received a copy of this book, and have paged through it a bit. Thus far, I am not impressed. The idea is good, and some of the appetizers look fairly tasty, but they are not really paired or integrated with the drinks in any meaningful way. As it so happens, this doesn't matter too much, as the drinks are rather uninspired. Time and again, the author bases her drinks around an infused vodka sweetened with syrup when a more interesting liqueur would make for a better drink (e.g. pear vodka instead of Poire Williams, citrus vodka instead of Cointreau, etc.). The drinks tend to profile a single flavor, such as coffee, vanilla, or a particular fruit, and generally don't offer much complexity. The garnishes make for attractive photography, but none of the drinks are anything I am interested in making. I give the book two stars for the appetizers, none for the cocktails.