Shrubs: An Old Fashioned Drink for Modern Times - Hardcover

Dietsch, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1581572441 ISBN 13: 9781581572445

Publisher: Countryman Press, 2014

Synopsis

A simple shrub is made from fruit, sugar, and . . . vinegar?

Raise your glass to a surprising new taste sensation for cocktails and sophisticated sodas: Shrubs. Not the kind that grow in the ground, but a vintage drink mixer that will knock your socks off. “Mixologists across the country are reaching back through the centuries to reclaim vinegar’s more palatable past . . . embracing it as ‘the other acid,’ an alternative to the same-old-same-old lemons and limes,” said the New York Times. The history of shrubs, as revealed here, is as fascinating as the drinks are refreshing. These sharp and tangy infusions are simple to make and use, as you’ll discover with these recipes. Mix up some Red Currant Shrub for a Vermouth Cassis, or Apple Cinnamon Shrub to mix with seltzer, or develop your own with Michael Dietsch’s directions and step-by-step photographs.

“Imagine a fizzy, soda-like drink that is drier and so much more sophisticated than soda, what with the sugar and botanical ingredients. Shrubs! Amazing! Wonderful!!” ―Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Dietsch is a writer, editor, and accidental bartender in Brooklyn. He is a contributor at SeriousEats.com and writes about spirits and cocktails at the website A Dash of Bitters. When he's not mixing drinks, he's smoking huge chunks of meat, grilling vegetables, bicycling, or enjoying a fine cigar. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.

Review:

“Imagine a fizzy, soda-like drink that is drier and so much more sophisticated than soda, what with the sugar and botanical ingredients. Shrubs! Amazing! Wonderful!”
- Amy Stewart, the Drunken Botanist

“Michael Dietsch has poked a pinhole in the past, and from this has projected the whole curious enterprise of drinkable vinegars in an enchanting light. Who would have thought spoiled wine or cider could taste so good?”
- Wayne Curtis, Author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails

“Shrubs: The Reason You Should Be Drinking Vinegar This Summer.”
- The Boston Globe

About this edition

• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1581572441
• ISBN 13: 9781581572445
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224