Product Description

In The Best of American Beer and Food Lucy Saunders covers both pairing food and beer and cooking with beer. She begins by exploring the art of pairing flavorful beers with specific foods, considering today's wide range of beer styles and the foods and flavors that they compliment from salad through dessert. She then turns to recipes that incorporate beer, using the diverse tastes available from today's ales and lagers as flavor components.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47126 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-25
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 180 pages

About the Author
Lucy Saunders has chronicled the microbrewery movement since 1987, for such publications as Restaurants & Institutions, The Chicago Tribune, Market Watch, and more. A syndicated columnist (The Beer & Food Companion), and food editor of All About Beer, Saunders has also apprenticed in restaurants specializing in cuisine a la biere in the U.K. and Belgium. She has conducted beer tastings for cooking schools, food writers and magazine editors, and organizations such as the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Her cookbook, Cooking With Beer, was published by Time Life in 1996.

Customer Reviews

A Great Primer
Lucy Saunders has looked far and wide to find a delightful array of explorations of how beer can enhance your enjoyment of food. Craft brewers and adventurous chefs across America are bringing beer to the table with delicious and suprising results. This book will change the way you think about that wonderful, inexpensive beverage, beer.

A great pairing indeed!
I LOVE this book! Written by an author who actually knows her subject-and seeks out some of the foremost craft brewers across America-Lucy Saunders has done beer lovers and foodies a tremendous service by traveling across the country seeking out the best brewers and recipes.
Whether you're a novice or accomplished foodie or brewhead you'll enjoy this book.
You'll especially enjoy the regional introductory information, where she interviews regional brewmasters.
Imagine learning all about pairing beer with food by matching beer with cheese or chocolate! Then, Saunders takes you on a gastronomic and zymurgological journey across the USA.
The photography is stunning, the writing-like a great ale is clean, crisp and down to earth.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys either food or beer or both!
Bruce Bjorkman
Host
ON TAP (Suds,Spirits,Sodas & Stogies)
KXL Radio-Portland, OR

Very average, liken it to a big commercial brew!
Unfortunately the information supplied is very weak. The origins of beer style and history would have been nice.
The recipes are very samey and un-appetizing.
There is sooo much to beer and the current surge in craft brewing popularity and this book only gives it a cursary glance at best.

Do yourself a favour and go out the purchase the fabulous "the Brewmaster's Table" this is truely an inspiring piece of publishing!