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Which Fork Do I Use with My Bourbon?: Setting the Table for Tastings, Food Pairings, Dinners, and Cocktail Parties (South Limestone) Kindle Edition
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A top-shelf guide to entertaining guests—on Derby Day or any day—from two bourbon experts. Includes recipes!
A good bottle of bourbon should be enjoyed in good company. During their travels in bourbon country and beyond to conduct tastings and seminars, entertainment experts Peggy Noe Stevens and Susan Reigler often heard the question, “How do I do this in my home?” This book is their answer. Which Fork Do I Use with My Bourbon? offers a step-by-step guide to hosting a successful bourbon-tasting party―complete with recipes, photos, and tips for beginners and experienced aficionados alike.
From decorations to glassware, this one-stop resource will guide you from the day you mail invitations to the moment you welcome guests through the door. Alongside their favorite snack, entrée, dessert, and cocktail recipes, Stevens and Reigler offer expert tricks of the trade on how to set up a bar, arrange tables, and pair recipes with specific bourbons. Once you’re ready, Stevens and Reigler move on to advanced pairings for the bourbon foodie and present two innovative examples of tasting parties―a bourbon cocktail soiree and, of course, the traditional Kentucky Derby party. Inspired by the hosting traditions of five Kentucky distilleries, this book will introduce casual fans to bourbon-tasting methods and expand the expertise of longtime bourbon enthusiasts.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSouth Limestone
- Publication dateMay 2, 2020
- File size47098 KB
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"Authors Peggy Noe Stevens and Susan Reigler, much like my grandmother Margie Samuels, are experts in popularizing and beautifying the world of bourbon. Throughout the book, Stevens contributes a grace and style which have been constants throughout her long, varied career as a marketer, event planner, and global advocate for all things bourbon. Reigler blends a biologist's passion for the science behind bourbon with the discerning palate of a true foodie. Which Fork Do I Use With My Bourbon? provides the next best thing to sitting between them at a bourbon-themed dinner in my Kentucky home."―Rob Samuels, chief distillery officer of Maker's Mark
"If I had to name two people I would turn to for help with bourbon and food, Peggy and Susan would top the list. Individually, their knowledge and experience are impressive, but together, their collective depth and wisdom are staggering. Put your faith in this duo and let them help you entertain, amaze, and blow minds in a style worthy of Kentucky's hospitality-rich and bourbon-drenched history. This book should be a shelf staple for any self-respecting bourbon fan."―Rob Allanson, managing editor of American Whiskey magazine
"Reading this book made me feel excited about all the parties and gatherings I will have once [the pandemic is] over. I have a renewed sense of the urgency to show friends and loved ones how much they mean to me, and what better way to do that than with a bourbon tasting party."―Alcohol Professor
"[A]n elegant book...helps us dream of party days ahead."―Booze Dancing
"This is a very well designed book with many excellent color photographs that will look good on any coffee table, but it will probably not rest there very long. It is filled with valuable information that will have you picking it up every time you want to entertain guests...You will find yourself referencing this book often as the book supplies a wealth of useful information such as how to arrange a room for best flow and what each type of glassware looks like and how they are used."―BourbonVeach.com
"The book is as beautifully presented as the authors intend your bourbon tastings and parties to be."―Travel Distilled
"[V]ery approachable and easy to read."―Life Currents
About the Author
Peggy Noe Stevens is president of Peggy Noe Stevens & Associates, founder of the Bourbon Women Association, and the first female master bourbon taster in the world. A lifestyle expert, she is also a professional speaker. As an inductee to both the Bourbon and Whiskey Halls of Fame, she has planned hundreds of experiences and events globally over the last thirty years, often working with distilleries and master distillers. Susan Reigler is a former restaurant critic for the Louisville Courier-Journal and a current correspondent for Bourbon+ and American Whiskey magazines. She has also authored or coauthored six books on bourbon, including Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide and The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book. In 2019, she was inducted into the Order of the Writ.
Product details
- ASIN : B083QV1P92
- Publisher : South Limestone (May 2, 2020)
- Publication date : May 2, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 47098 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 205 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #871,389 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #125 in Wine Pairing
- #301 in Event Planning
- #329 in Whiskey
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About the authors
Peggy Noe Stevens in both career and personal life has devoted herself to 30 years of hospitality, entertaining and developing spirit brand destinations. A Master Bourbon Taster who is also a certified etiquette, image and professional speaker, she produces one-of-a-kind experiences for both people and places. Because of her signature style, expertise and creativity, she is retained by companies to seek out the strategic essence of image and brand culture and was inducted into the Bourbon Hall of Fame in 2019 for those efforts. Her approach conveys powerfully targeted brand messaging through environments while building confidence, self-awareness and professional presence in people.
She began her career in hospitality and marketing with Hyatt Hotels Corporation, engaging in all aspects of guest services, professional event planning and the highest standards of culinary arts and entertaining. Peggy then moved to Brown-Forman Corporation to lead a newly developed travel and event planning department. As global event planner, she managed over 100 whiskey industry events annually, negotiated multi-million-dollar travel contracts and enhanced all aspects of travel, customer service, entertaining protocol and hospitality for executives.
While at Brown-Forman, she was also given the opportunity to move into the new frontier of experiential marketing, where she assimilated and directed an impressive portfolio of wine and spirit brand destinations and worked with such iconic brands as Jack Daniel’s, Woodford Reserve Bourbon, Southern Comfort, Fetzer and Sonoma Cutrer Vineyards. In this role, Peggy’s keen strategic direction and sense for establishing rich cultures positioned each destination to become a top attraction in its respective location. Directing all channels of destination management, she comprehensively fine-tuned experiential touch points with the consumer from retail and aesthetics to culinary and tasting programs, creating unique and memorable experiences. She simply mastered the art of engaging people emotionally through the senses.
Peggy’s career has allowed her to travel globally to observe the strengths and weaknesses of many brand cultures and she is an expert in consumer lifestyle behavior as it relates to the brand and its environment.
In many ways, Peggy has been a trail blazer for women, and yet has lived up to her heritage. She became the world’s first female Master Bourbon Taster in the industry and can trace her lineage back to some of the great bourbon making families in Kentucky. In 2011, she created the Bourbon Women Association, the first female consumer group in the industry to celebrate and support Kentucky’s signature product with a multi-city platform for women. Peggy was one of the originators for the conception and strategic development of the iconic Kentucky Bourbon Trail, which has become a global sensation for the spirits industry. Because of her accomplishments, she was given the prestigious “Networking Award” by the Kentucky Distiller’s Association in 2016 for making a difference in the industry for women.
She has been called the “Oprah of whiskey entertaining,” and a “Lifestyle maven.” She has represented Kentucky for such notables as Julia Child, Bobby Flay and the Prince of Spain.
Her executive leadership skills also immersed her talent in designing women’s research and strategy studies for corporations, and she has spoken to countless professional organizations on women’s issues in the workplace and strategizing careers. She has set an inspiring new standard by which corporations can attract and retain female executives.
Peggy has authored two books, Professional Presence: A Four-Part Guide to Building Your Personal Brand and the first chef-collaborative Bourbon and culinary book, The Culinary Cocktail Tour. Her new book, Which Fork do I use with my Bourbon will hit the bookshelves in May 2020 She is a contributing food and spirits writer for American Whiskey Magazine and Entertaining Editor for Bourbon + Magazine. She also serves as a spirit’s judge for the American Distilling Institute and is on the faculty of Moonshine University.
Author, global speaker, whiskey taster and experience maker, Peggy brings a gracious, fresh and relevant approach to establishing image and creating experiences for consumers. She engages audiences with her dynamic wit and energetic message.
Among award-winning writer Susan Reigler’s books are Kentucky Bourbon Country:The Essential Travel Guide; The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book; The Bourbon Tasting Notebook; and most recently, Which Fork Do I Use with My Bourbon?:Setting the Table for Tastings, Food Pairings, Dinners, and Cocktail Parties.
From 1992 to 2005, Reigler was restaurant critic and beverage columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Currently she is a contributing writer to Bourbon+, American Whiskey Magazine (for which she writes whiskey tasting notes and ratings), LEO Weekly and is bourbon columnist for Food & Dining. Reigler is past president of the Bourbon Women Association and has been featured in whiskey festivals throughout the United States, including in Chicago, New Orleans, Louisville, and Smithfield, Virginia. As of November 2019, she is president of the Kentucky chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier International, an organization of women culinary professionals. She is a Certified Executive Bourbon Steward, a member of the Order of the Writ, and a graduate of Indiana and Oxford Universities.
Her other books are The American Whiskey Tasting Notebook, More Kentucky Bourbon Cocktails, Kentucky-Sweet & Savory, Kentucky (A Fodor's Compass American Guide), Adventures in Dining: Kentucky Bourbon Country, and The Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks. She lives and writes in Louisville. You can contact her at susanreigler@gmail.com and visit her web page, www.susanreigler.com.
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The great part about this book is it explains what makes a great tasting event. And it's more than just bringing out some shot glasses and some bourbons you haven't tried. There's a real thoughtfulness that goes into making a bourbon event one in which the participants have a great time and also learn to appreciate bourbon.
Bourbon drinkers love to share the gospel of bourbon, and with this book, you've got a head start on how to plan, implement and host a bourbon event, whether it's for a few close friends or 50 people. I've seen the thoughtfulness in food pairing and whiskey flight creation evolve over the last few years simply through the kinds of techniques the authors have shared at their own events.
If you want to sit at a table and knock back a few shots with some friends this is not the book for you, but if you want to create an experience where you and your guests experience and learn about bourbon in a way that would make the master distillers of the country proud, read this book and plan your first tasting. You'll love it!
I am a transplant Kentucky gal from Oklahoma 15 years ago. Fell in love with the history and culture that surrounds America’s Spirit from who were the adventuresome creators to the chemical processes to even the labeling regulations to preserve its heritage.
I have leveled my game into visiting distilleries, attending conferences with fellow connoisseurs, taken classes earning my novice status, reading and sharing the knowledge searching and appreciating the various designs.
Susan and Peggy have created a very beautiful researched reference, story and pictures of enriched experiences that come out fully in this book. I can tell you it’s easy to read, follow it’s theme of hosting with class without all the pretentious vibes. Not to knock wine parties and the southern belle brunches but this includes EVERYONE, men and women, and lists of ways to give your own spin without compromising bourbon’s warm and rich history. Suggestions and step by step pairings for those who couldn’t remotely dream of combinations to engage your family and friends are fluid throughout this layout.
You’ll even gain some awesome trivia knowledge ;-) YOU NEED THIS BOOK!
I used this books principals to create the perfect date night and will use it for my next party!
If that wasn’t enough they included a ton of amazing recipes for every occasion. Buy the book! I’m a slow reader and finished in 5 hours. I will refer to this book endlessly.
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2020