Following the buzz around the release of the Sex In The City film, I bought a couple of copies of this book as birthday presents for girlfriends, to accompany designer cocktail glasses.
It's a thorough and informative compendium and you certainly wouldn't need to own another cocktail book if you had this one on your book shelves, but I - personally - like more photos (so I know what end look I'm aiming for!).
However, I AM looking forward to sampling many of the 1000 suggested concoctions around at my chums houses over the years to come... cheers!! hic!!!
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Following the buzz around the release of the Sex In The City film, I bought a couple of copies of this book as birthday presents for girlfriends, to accompany designer cocktail glasses.
It's a thorough and informative compendium and you certainly wouldn't need to own another cocktail book if you had this one on your book shelves, but I - personally - like more photos (so I know what end look I'm aiming for!).
However, I AM looking forward to sampling many of the 1000 suggested concoctions around at my chums houses over the years to come... cheers!! hic!!!
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I'm giving this book 4 stars for Michael Jackson's top notch knowledge and good descriptions of Scotch Malt Whiskies. In the late 90's, an earlier edition of this book was a fine guide for me as I explored the world of whisky beyond that which was available on the supermarket shelf.
Nowadays though, I don't really find his writing as relevant as it once was, as my tastes have branched out beyond the confines of Scotland. While the Scottish distilleries are still my favourite and are covered in this book great detail, other countries are given a brief mention at best (7 pages out of 448). The Japanese are currently producing some excellent (and award winning) whiskies, and I feel they merit more of a mention than a few paragraphs.
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I've owned (or been given) a number of different cocktail recipe books over the years. Not a single one of them comes anywhere close to the exhaustive range (2000+ recipes) and precision of Difford's. I now find myself looking at other cocktail books and laughing at their ludicrous oversimplification - you can find books that call themselves 'The Professional Bartenders Guide' which suggest that the only Martini recipes in existence are 'dry', 'sweet' and 'Gibson'. Diffords by comparison has dozens - and comes with an excellent potted history of some of the major classic cocktails.
Many recipes come with short notes suggesting variants (and the reasons for variation) and there are numerous tweaks to classic cocktails listed that you'll ... Read More:
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As a whisky lover, I can honestly say this is the most useful and knowledgeable guide to malt whisky on the market, one that will help guide you through the huge plethora of delicious malts being produced in Scotland (and further afield). And I'm delighted to say that it has been fully revised and updated with even more tasting notes.
Each malt is graded according to its sweetness, peatiness and cost which is much more meaningful than say Michael Jackson's somewhat arbitrary mark out of a hundred that he gives each whisky. With labels for each malt reproduced in full colour and published in a handy pocket format, this is a must for anyone who loves drinking Scotland's amber nectar.
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As a whisky lover, I can honestly say this is the most useful and knowledgeable guide to malt whisky on the market, one that will help guide you through the huge plethora of delicious malts being produced in Scotland (and further afield). And I'm delighted to say that it has been fully revised and updated with even more tasting notes.
Each malt is graded according to its sweetness, peatiness and cost which is much more meaningful than say Michael Jackson's somewhat arbitrary mark out of a hundred that he gives each whisky. With labels for each malt reproduced in full colour and published in a handy pocket format, this is a must for anyone who loves drinking Scotland's amber nectar.
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As a whisky lover, I can honestly say this is the most useful and knowledgeable guide to malt whisky on the market, one that will help guide you through the huge plethora of delicious malts being produced in Scotland (and further afield). And I'm delighted to say that it has been fully revised and updated with even more tasting notes.
Each malt is graded according to its sweetness, peatiness and cost which is much more meaningful than say Michael Jackson's somewhat arbitrary mark out of a hundred that he gives each whisky. With labels for each malt reproduced in full colour and published in a handy pocket format, this is a must for anyone who loves drinking Scotland's amber nectar.
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As a whisky lover, I can honestly say this is the most useful and knowledgeable guide to malt whisky on the market, one that will help guide you through the huge plethora of delicious malts being produced in Scotland (and further afield). And I'm delighted to say that it has been fully revised and updated with even more tasting notes.
Each malt is graded according to its sweetness, peatiness and cost which is much more meaningful than say Michael Jackson's somewhat arbitrary mark out of a hundred that he gives each whisky. With labels for each malt reproduced in full colour and published in a handy pocket format, this is a must for anyone who loves drinking Scotland's amber nectar.
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Waste of money. Self-indulgent, parochial, political. Rather buy something on whisky by Jim Murray or the late Michael Jackson. Any book on Scotland by anybody on earth, even if he is from Tierra del Fuego,would be better. And as for the author's friends, his youth, cars and his naive and fashionable politics- who cares and why does he think anybody else would?
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I am obsessed with this amazing book! i love cocktails and this has just about every one you can think of. even people who dont enjoy cocktails will love this book.
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