With more than 150 stylish recipes plus a fact-packed introduction to the ingredients and equipment you need to set up and stock your own home bar, Gin Vodka Tequila is the ultimate home cocktail recipe book. GVT is divided into chapters on the three key base spirits and offers a range of traditional favorites alongside the most contemporary mixes around. There's at least one cocktail guaranteed to suit your every possible mood. If you're heading out for a night on the town, look no further than the Vodka Martini. If you simply want to kick back with some friends, treat yourself to a sophisticated Mad Men-inspired Gimlet. Interspersed throughout the book are 10 "Cocktail Classics" - from the Bramble to the Bloody Mary; the Tom Collins to the Tequila Sunrise. Whatever the occasion, GVT offers a simple, no-nonsense approach to rustling up something special. A bonus section provides essential tips on matching every recipe with the appropriate glass.
Berry Healthy begins by looking at the nutritional value of different berry types; where to buy them; how to use and store them and even some growing tips for growing at home. The second section is a berry directory - from the most popular to some more exotic fruits. This gives details on origins, sources and uses. The final chapter provides a variety of recipes from jams and preserves to desserts and drinks.
Shots and Shooters are the drinks that make every party memorable, and Shots is full of recipes for exciting short drinks - drinks that are based on brandy, tequila, whiskey, gin, rum and other spirits. They can be layered, sweet, sour or with a taste of firewater. The book includes helpful tips for creating the perfect shot, as well as information on the correct glasses to use, bar essentials and how to pour drinks with distinctive layers.
You can't hold all the wine information you need in your head, but with this handy guide you can be sure it is available whenever you want it. Indispensable as ever, Oz Clarke's now classic Pocket Wine Book is meticulously updated each year. This is the 21st edition and the book has more information, more recommendations, more facts, passion and opinion than any other comparable guide to wine. Organised in an easy-to-use A-Z format, the entries cover wines, producers, grapes and wine regions from all over the world. For optimum browsing, the guide includes a handy country by country index as well as a full producer index to help you find over 4000 of the world's top wine producers and their wines. Detailed vintage charts with information on which of the world's top wines are ready for drinking in 2013, can be found on the inside front and back covers. New for this year is an extra 8-page colour section to add extra sparkle to the 2013 edition.
This book contains 75 recipes for delicious smoothies and juices. There are healthy recipes which contain nothing more than fresh fruit and vegetables juices; others which contain yogurt and soy milk and then luxurious treats which are made using ice cream and sorbets. In addition to the recipes there is information on the equipment required, ingredients and serving suggestions.
This book is packed with swet and savoury recipes to suit all tastes using all kinds of fruit and vegetables. In the wake of the smoothie's sensational acclaim, homemade juices are enjoying a revival with fabulous and sophisticated combinations of fruit, herbs and spices. Sumer coolers, refreshing thirst quenchers and sparkling revivers have never been so easy or fast to make.