Southern Living Bourbon & Bacon: The Ultimate Guide to the South's Favorite Food Groups
A high-proof adventure, Bourbon and Bacon includes 140 of the South’s most amazing recipes that use one (or both) of these smoky ingredients. Morgan Murphy’s collections of cocktails, new infusions, punches, appetizers, main courses, sides, and desserts will be a hit, whether you’re hosting a cocktail party, backyard barbecue, or elegant dinner. For bourbon enthusiasts, Morgan rates more than 75 of his favorite whiskeys and takes readers on a cheerful tour of many of the South’s top distilleries. Bacon lover? Bourbon & Bacon is full of bacon secrets, farm tours, bacon ratings, and tips and tricks to make the best of everyone’s favorite meat. With Morgan’s hilarious Southern tales and irresistible recipes, Bourbon & Bacon is an essential guide for anyone who loves either bourbon or bacon (or both).
Cooks&Books&Recipes Editors {Dee}, on Southern Living Bourbon and Bacon: The Ultimate Guide to the South’s Favorite Food Groups
Full disclosure: I don’t drink bourbon. Well, not neat or on-the-rocks. Which is strange, considering that I come from a matriarchal line of women who do. But as I’ve discovered from the recipes I’ve tried in this cookbook, I love the flavor in food. And with pork being one of my all-time favorite “food groups” (my Southern heritage?), I found recipe after recipe in Bourbon & Bacon to put on my next-to-make list: Crimson Champagne Cup, Bourbon Vinaigrette, Bacon-Wrapped Bourbon Figs, Bourbon Cream Cheese Brownies, Bourbon Balls (when I was growing up, my mother made these every year for Christmas gifts), Bacon-Bourbon Caramel Popcorn — honestly, I could go on and on (I’ll be cooking from this book for a very long time).
Some of the recipes feature only bourbon, some feature only bacon, and some feature both. I chose one from the last category–Bacon Bourbon Waffles–as the recipe to offer you, my readers, because we all need to start our day off right. But I’m going to tell you a secret: the Bourbon Candied Bacon, which is used in many of the recipes in this book, is to-die-for all on its own. OMG. I couldn’t quit eating this stuff — there was nothing left for the recipes!
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See the glistening on the bacon in the photo at left? That’s the caramelized brown sugar and bourbon. Oh, yeah. And see those curled up bacon slices? Those are “Bacon Straws,” ready to go into the drink of your choice as a garnish. (Bloody Mary, anyone?)
Beyond the recipes, perhaps the true value of Bourbon & Bacon lies in its history lessons, expert tasting notes, and Southern wit. In Part One, Murphy’s “Bourbon Drinker’s Guide” offers tasting notes on more than 75 spirits, and the author also pairs his cocktail and food recipes with “Bourbon I Love” selections. Part Two includes a “Bacon Lover’s Guide” with the ins-and-outs and tasting notes for 14 of the best purveyors of bacon in the country, as well as a “Pig Map” showing the hog’s best cuts and the secrets to preserving the meat.
Truly more than a cookbook, Bourbon & Bacon gives proof to Murphy’s belief: “Abstaining from bourbon and bacon doesn’t make you live longer. It just feels that way.”
The Cookbook Basics:
Hardcover (8.8 x 5.9 inches)
288 pages, color photos, 115 recipes
About the author: Morgan Murphy is a best-selling writer and television personality and the author of Off the Eaten Path and Off the Eaten Path: Second Helpings. The Alabama native and James Beard Award nominee is a graduate of the University of Oxford and Birmingham-Southern College. Commander Murphy serves in the U.S. Navy Reserve and is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama.
Cookbook Giveaway:
Thanks to publisher Oxmoor House and Southern Living, we’re giving away a copy of Southern Living Bourbon & Bacon: The Ultimate Guide to the South’s Favorite Food Groups to one lucky Cooks&Books&Recipes reader. Enter below.
Giveaway Notes:
There are six ways to enter the giveaway, but it’s not necessary to do all six entries. Choose whichever one(s) you like, and you’ll be entered in the giveaway. The winner, to be randomly selected and notified by e-mail, must claim the cookbook within 10 days. Giveaway ends on Sunday, November 16.
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Southern Living Bourbon & Bacon
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everything’s better with bacon!
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My mom would love to have this one hope I win.
Bourbon and Bacon….the two main food groups! I love bacon!
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My husband and I are always looking for new recipes. This sounds great!
Living in the South myself these are the favorite food groups! I would love to have this to find more great recipes to make!
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What could be better than bourbon and butter. Yummy
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Totally my kind of book!!!
What a winning combination Bourbon and Bacon ! Thanks for a fun giveaway!
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I love cookbooks but I have so many! If I would happen to win, I would give this to my daughter, she got engaged a few months ago & also loves to cook. Her fiance’ & her do a lot of cooking together :)
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The best BLT I have ever had was at Crown Candy Company in St. Louis MO. There had to have been a pound of bacon on that sandwich!!!
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I love using bacon with practically everything, i even cook bacon into my biscuits, but i have never tried any recipes with bacon and burbon..I would love that but in truth, my son is getting married next month and they both like to cook this would be wonderful for the both of them.
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