Cocktail Cookery

Cocktail CookeryNo, Cooking with Cocktails is not just a sneaky way to get bombed. Nor is it going to replace haute cuisine. While the idea may seem audacious, and certainly untraditional, there's a practical reason behind it. Spirits are storehouses of concentrated flavor—the distilled essences of corn, rye, cane, grapes and other fruit. The complexity of bourbon, for example, astonishes food analysts, who list vanilla, cumin, cereal and "buttery nutty scents" among its generous flavo...