How to Buy Cook Real Meat or MacLeans Miscellany of Whisky

How to Buy & Cook Real Meat

Author: Anthony Worrall Thompson

This book is filled with practical, informed advice on buying and cooking all varieties of meat, poultry, and game. Leading chef and passionate campaigner for real meat, Antony Worrall Thompson gives you all the advice you'll need to make an informed choice when buying your favorite cuts of meat. He explains why you should bother to search out corn-fed chicken, what is safe and unsafe, and what to look for on food labels. This reference also contains over 70 easy and delicious meat, poultry, and game recipes—from classic Sunday roasts to the perfect bacon sandwich.

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MacLean's Miscellany of Whisky

Author: Charles MacLean

Whisky has been called "the world’s finest spirit" and "Scotland’s most generous gift to the world." Liberally spiced with quirky stories, quotations, and charming illustrations, this is a comprehensive guide packed with information on everything related to whisky. Charles MacLean provides answers to such questions as: How has whisky changed over the past 100 years and why? What gives it its beautiful amber color? How do simple ingredients—water, barley, yeast, and perhaps a little peat—come together to produce such a diversity of flavors? Why have some distilleries closed, while others have flourished? How should Scotch be best enjoyed? Wide ranging in its scope, elegant, and informative, this is the perfect resource for anyone with an interest in good drink and good living.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	6
	Preface	8
1	What is Whisky?	12
2	Whisky and Whiskey	28
3	The Problem of Proof	42
4	The Rise and Fall of Distilleries	56
5	The 'Noble Experiment'	68
6	Whisky and Water	80
7	Barley Varieties	92
8	Peat	100
9	Maltings	110
10	The Firing of Stills	122
11	Worms	130
12	'The Wood Makes the Whisky'	140
13	Jars and Pigs	158
14	Whisky Bottles	164
15	Corks and Caps	174
16	Branding the Water of Life	180
17	The Amber Glass	200
18	Awakening the Serpent	210
19	A Rose by Any Other Name...	220
20	The Three Stages of Intoxication	234
	Appendices	244
	Index	252