The most comprehensive handbook available on selecting, understanding, mixing, and cooking with bitters, for everyone from professional bartenders and chefs to casual entertainers and home
cooks.
Hundreds of cocktail bitters are on the market, and millions are turning to them to add punch, pizzazz, and complexity to their cocktails and even their cooking. But the storm of exciting
brands and flavors has even the savviest bartenders puzzled over their flavors, personalities, and best uses. Bitterman’s Field Guide to Bitters and Amari is the handbook that decodes
today’s burgeoning selection of bitters, along with their kindred spirits amari and shrubs, complete with 190 photographs.
The introduction includes everything you need to know to understand what bitters and amari are and how to use them. recipes for making essential and inventive bitters at home. The next section
offers 123 recipes for making essential bitters at home, mixing, and cooking bitters, from a Burnt Grapefruit Gimlet to a Martini Julep, from Bittered Bittersweet Chocolate Torte to BBQ Pork
Ribs with Bittersweet BBQ Sauce.Bitterman’s Field Guide to Bitters and Amari cracks open the full potential of bitters, inspiring and empowering people to try them. The final section
includes a comprehensive field guide to the wide world of the more than 500 great bitters and 50 amari available today. Complete with tasting notes, profiles of important makers and brand
photography, the guide gives everyone from pro bartenders to home cooks a solid foundation for buying and using bitters.
