A Year in Food and Beer

Recipes and Beer Pairings for Every Season

Emily Baime and Darin Michaels

Beer and food pairing can be as much an art form as wine and food pairing. With the explosion in craft beers and interest in seasonal cuisine, A Year in Food and Beer perfectly fills a niche. It instructs readers how to identify flavors in specific American and European-style beers and how to complement those with gourmet foods and cooking techniques by season. Home cooks, beer drinkers, and curious foodies will be fortified learning about beer and breweries and sampling the 40 enticing recipes and more than 100 beer-pairing suggestions.

AltaMira Press

Pages: 180 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7591-2263-5 • Hardback • May 2013 • $50.00 • (£38.00)

978-0-7591-2265-9 • eBook • May 2013 • $47.50 • (£37.00)

Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy

Subjects: Cooking / Beverages / Alcoholic / Beer, Cooking / History

A Year in Food and Beer

Recipes and Beer Pairings for Every Season

Hardback

eBook

Summary

Beer and food pairing can be as much an art form as wine and food pairing. With the explosion in craft beers and interest in seasonal cuisine, A Year in Food and Beer perfectly fills a niche. It instructs readers how to identify flavors in specific American and European-style beers and how to complement those with gourmet foods and cooking techniques by season. Home cooks, beer drinkers, and curious foodies will be fortified learning about beer and breweries and sampling the 40 enticing recipes and more than 100 beer-pairing suggestions.

Details

AltaMira Press

Pages: 180 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7591-2263-5 • Hardback • May 2013 • $50.00 • (£38.00)

978-0-7591-2265-9 • eBook • May 2013 • $47.50 • (£37.00)

Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy

Subjects: Cooking / Beverages / Alcoholic / Beer, Cooking / History

Author

Emily Baime and Darin Michaels are founders of Community Tap and Table, a mission-oriented business offering hands-on cooking classes, beer dinners, culinary trips, and beer-food education.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Artfully Pairing Food and Beer
Chapter 2: Brewing Flavors
Chapter 3: Spring
Chapter 4: Summer
Chapter 5: Fall
Chapter 6: Winter
Chapter 7: Hosting a Beer and Cheese Pairing Party
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

Reviews

As the nation’s craft breweries proliferate and home beer making becomes even more popular than it was in the days of Prohibition, consumers are becoming ever more sophisticated. No longer do Americans drink industrially produced lagers with their meals; they demand brews especially designed to complement gourmet dinners. Baime and Michaels follow the seasons to offer beers specifically paired to recipes. They compare beers’ variations in taste and aroma to the complexity of chords in the notes of a symphony and encourage readers to explore widely. Fruity apricot ale softens the heat of spicy peel-and-eat shrimp. Very ambitious cooks may feel compelled to churn up some of the authors’ homemade butter to drench summer lobster. To harmonize with this shellfish’s richness, they suggest the spicy notes of chili beer. Recipes assume some expertise on the part of anyone wanting to replicate these dishes at home.
— Booklist

[A Year in Food and Beer] starts off strong as Baime and Michaels open with a useful rundown of beer styles, adequately informing amateur beer enthusiasts and everyday cooks alike of the various qualities of porters, pilsners and lambics.
— Publishers Weekly

A delicious offering, reinforcing the reality that beer truly is the most divine and versatile of drinks and the preferred accompaniment to foods of all kinds. In A Year In Food and Beer, the world's favorite alcoholic beverage gets the respect and reverence it deserves.
— Charlie Bamforth, professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences, University of California, Davis