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Vinegar: The User Friendly Standard Text, Reference and Guide to Appreciating, Making, and Enjoying Vinegar

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Lawrence Diggs is, in all likelyhood, the most knowledgable vinegar enthusiast in this country; but that doesn't make this a great book. It's a problem of editing and clarity, it just isn't written for laymen and the writing is often off-kilter. Additionally, it's directed at an audience who already knows how to make vinegar but wants to fine-tune production.

I found it to be immensely helpful in tweaking my vinegars, adjusting acidity and preventing infections... but if I only had this book I wouldn't have known where to start in the first place.

The bottom line is if you want to learn to make vinegar you are better off with The Joy of Cooking or How to Cook Everything; when you're ready to take your Vinegar making to the next level this is the book to read.

Although this is a very thorough book on the subject of vinegar it focuses primarily on industrial production and very, very little on making it yourself at home. I was hoping it would be more along the lines of a book explaining how to brew beer, which is a hobby I enjoy.

The book is well written and covers everything I wanted to know about vinegar. Who knew there was so much to know? The vinegar man did. The research, as reflected by end notes and bibliography, is immense. If I want to know more, I can take the references and spend years in study. Lucky for me, the vinegar man has done it for all of us. If you are into zymurgy, or have dabbled in making vinegar read this book.

This author really knows and cares about vinegar. However, as a guide for beginners, this book is not useful at all, and it's not very fun to read. It is poorly written, with typos and grammatical errors on nearly every page.

This book offers almost no information beyond what you get from a good google search. The whole chapter on balsamic vinegar is just plain wrong. And its not even printed up to modern standards. The author doesn't appear to know better; the publisher should be ashamed.

As others have mentioned this is NOT for the beginner. It is in fact for those who wish to become very frustrated and angry at the feeling of having just been misled, and thereby ripped-off, by a rather misleading title. This will NOT teach you everything you need to know for home production. It will however inform you of the colossal machinery needed to produce such a product at a rate of several thousands of gallons a day.

For the Lovers of the good food and cooking methods and usage of the vinegar their qualities and correct use is an excelent handbook. In the book you will find excellent examples of which vinegar you will need to use for the correct taste. Not all the vinegar's are the same as not all the wines are.

In the book you will find how to Appreciate,make and enjoy VINEGAR. PUT IT SIMPLE is excellent

This book is a great resource but needs to be updated. I also recommend a better introduction to home vinegar production be included. This book focuses more on bulk production than most readers are looking for.

Great book. I don't agree with the other reviewers who said the book was too technical. I think it is thorough.