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Publisher: Jefferson Press, 2007.
Hard Cover, 246 pages, 6.25 x 9.25.
Item #1439
After penning an article for the Chicago Tribune's Good Eating section in 2003 titled "The Lightening of American Beer," author and beer history expert Bob Skilnik wondered if having chronicled the differences between today's beers and those of the generations before us could he shed some light on beer's historical use in American food or as an accompaniment. The result is his sixth book, featuring over 90 beer-related recipes and a fascinating, mouth- watering account of the birth and rise of our nation's brewing industry and its lasting influence on American cuisine. As the last chapter of Beer & Food: An American History comes to a close, the culinary-loving, beer-drinking enthusiast will have a unique understanding of the history of American beer and food, and why a simple grilled Wisconsin bratwurst soaked in an American pilsner can be just as tasty as the pairing of an overpriced imported cheese with a questionable European beer. Combining American beers and foods is a unique art, tempered with hundreds of years of rich history and often the vision of determined artisans. A glimpse of their efforts can be seen in the old and new food recipes that use beer as a great tasting ingredient...just waiting inside Beer & Food for you to enjoy! The Latest Buzz On Beer & Food: An American History "Skilnik, whose previous books include The Low Carb Bartender, traces the history of American beer from Colonial times through the 20th century in this intriguing work." --- LibraryJournal.com, XPress Reviews "Bob Skilnik's Beer & Food is a tasty history, from beer soup to Beer Nuts, with pickled pigs' feet in between." --- Don Russell, a/k/a, Joe Sixpack, beer reporter, Philadelphia Daily News "Author Bob Skilnik offers an academic and enjoyable read about the role of beer in the American kitchen, from colonial days through the 21st century, drawn from old cookbooks and brewing histories. Beer & Food: An American History offers 'receipts' of the period as well as contemporary craft brewers' own recipes for a book that's half history, half cookbook. It merits a pint of your favorite ale by your side so you may sip and browse throughout!" --- Lucy Saunders, editor, beercook. com and author, GRILLING WITH BEER "Beer & Food proves once again that beer has always held a place of prominence at the dinner table." --- Jay R. Brooks, Brookston Beer Bulletin "With restaurant & beverage critics increasingly focused on the emerging beer & food pairing scene, this timely book puts the evolution of this under appreciated area of culinary arts into a historic perspective. Kudos to Bob Skilnik for creating this absorbing and informative resource." --- Keith Lemcke, Vice-President Siebel Institute of Technology, World Brewing Academy "In his smart and engaging history of beer and its relationship to food, Bob Skilnik demonstrates that the today's trend isn't the first time Americans "discovered" the joys of good beer with good food." --- Bryce Eddings, Beer.About.com "The first book that gives a historical look at why beer and food are truly partners in today's kitchens." --- John R. Hall, President, Goose Island Beer Company
INDEX:
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ad campaigns John Adams adjuncts, brewing with starchy Alaskan Brewing Company Alaskan Stout alcoholic content, 3.2 percent alcoholic content, 4 to 5 percent alcoholic content, legal limit ale vinegar for pickling ale vinegar for tenderizing meat Ales of the Revolution "America's Beverage of Moderation" slogan "America's Oldest Brewery" American beer and food American Brewing Company American brewing industry American Can Company American Cookery (Simmons) The American Woman's Home (Beecher and Beecher Stowe) Anchor Steam Alexander Anderson Lincoln C. Andrews Major Edmund Andros Anheuser-Busch Bevo Anheuser-Busch Brewery Anti-Saloon League "Aunt Babette's" Cook Book: Foreign and domestic receipts for the household (Babette)
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Aunt Babette baking powder baking with yeast Ballantine & Sons Brewery Ballantine I.P.A. beer barbecue barley cultivation, six-row Barley-Malt Beadleston & Company Brewery Kurt Becker Catharine E. Beecher beer and lunch in saloons beer and oysters beer as drink of moderation beer as flavoring ingredient beer as good for kids beer as ingredient in food beer as pure food beer as temperance drink "Beer Belongs" slogan beer canning prohibited, World War II beer for Armed Forces, World War II beer in appetizers beer in baked goods beer in breads beer in cans beer in desserts beer in dressings beer in entrees beer in food, strategy beer in fritters/pancakes beer in salads beer in seafood dishes beer in side dishes beer in soups beer in vegetables beer industry, feared return to "beer party" beer production, molasses in beer production, World War II beer recipe beer reformulation beer slogans beer taste, government influenced beer to tenderize beef beer vs. ale beer vs. wine in cooking beer with cheese beer, "needle," beer, bootlegged beer, carbonation of beer, cold beer, cooking with sour/stale beer, craft beer, draft beer, dry beer, duties on imported beer, English-styled beer, first recipe using beer, ice beer, imported vs. domestic beer, imported beer, industry standard grade beer, kitchen use for beer, legalization of beer, light beer, limited choices beer, near beer, non-alcoholic beer, pilsner beer, porter beer, ship's beer, small beer, social and economic benefits beer, steam beer, strong beer, super-premium beer, temperance beer, uniform blandness of beers, bitterness of hops Belgian lambic Benny's American Pale Ale Berghoff Lager beer Berghoff Pale Ale Berghoff Red Ale Best Malt Products Company Beverage Testing Institute (BTI) Big Oyster Island Bob Bindley black porters Adrian Block Bohemian pilsner bootlegged beer Boston Beer Company Boston bottles return bottles, hand-blown bottling operations, expansion of Gordon Bowker Alice Bradley bran bread Breakfast To Midnight Recipes With Pabst-Ett (Bradley) Brew in your Stew (National Brewing) Brewers Association (BA) World Beer Cup brewing equipment, exemptions on brewing in multiple regions brewing in New England brewing, commercial brewing, scientific methods of brewpub brining vinegar Dean Browne BudMillerCoors brewery Budweiser beer A. Busch Gussie Busch Melanie Bushar businessman's lunch
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Carolinas Charles Carroll President Jimmy Carter Susannah Carter cerealine Samuel Chamberlain cheese cheese, beer with cheese, local artisan vs. European cheese making cheese, malt syrup and cheese, Pabst cheese, Pabst-ett Paul T. Cherington Chicago Chicago Tribune Lydia Maria Child Choc Beer Hans Christiansen ClŽmentine in the Kitchen (Chamberlain) colonial beer and food Christopher Columbus coned cans consumption levels, beer Continental Army Continental Can Company Continental Pilsner cookbooks and booklets corn flakes corn, patent to brew with native cornmeal added to beer cornmeal as binder Douglas Crockwell Jane Cunningham Croly Cullen-Harrison bill
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D.G. Yuengling & Son Brewery De Both Home Makers' Schools Jessie De Both Dead Boys (liquor) Dean Browne demon rum Designed For Wartime Living (Gunter) Directions for Cookery, In Its Various Branches (Leslie) distillation of alcohol distilled spirits, competing with Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers (Lea) draft beer dry beer dry states, World War I Perry Duis Durkee's Baking Powder
E
Eagle Brewery Eighteenth Amendment Ellis Island Jamie Emmerson Empire Cheese Company England England, beer exports to Virginia England, sherry exports England, Virginia imported malt from English ale, import of English beer, duty-free import English Farnham hops English food and beer, adoption of English food and beer, rejection of English influence in Middle Colonies English malt, boycott of English malt, imported English porter, George Washington fond of English products, boycott of English treacle Erlanger beer Janet Halliday Ervin Esopus (settlement) Etude sur la Biere (Pasteur) European wines, importation of Sandra Evans Ellen Ewing excise tax imposed after Civil War expansion of, westward
F
Falstaff Brewing Company Famo (non-alcoholic Schlitz) Famous International Themes (Girnau) Favorite Recipes of famous Amateur Chefs fermentables in brewing A Few German Luncheons (Nedd) Fish and Sea-Food Cookery (Girnau) Professor George Fix Charles and Max Fleischmann Fleischmann's compressed yeast cake food recipe books as subterfuge food recipes, "stock" books of food recipes, early Food Stimulation Act food-sponsoring promotion Frederic H. Girnau Creations Christine Frederick Friendly Menus (Lambert) The Frugal Housewife (Carter) The Frugal Housewife; Dedicated To Those Who Are Not Ashamed Of Economy (Child) Full Sail Amber Ale Full Sail Brewing Company
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G. Heileman Brewery Louis F. Garrard Gasthaus beers Geo. Wiedemann Brewing Company German brewers German brewmasters German immigrants German lager German Midwest breweries German Pennsylvania German recipes German World War I prohibitionists German yeast, lager beer German-American brewery expansion Fanny Lemira Gillette glass bottle manufacturing Gluek Brewing Company "Good for Little Tots" promotion Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company Gourmet (magazine) grain meal for holding yeast grain restrictions, World War I grain restrictions, World War II Bert Grant Great American Beer Festival Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company The Great Chicago Fire (1871) Jose Groll Ken Grossman Gunther Brewing Company The Gunther Hostess Book
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hamburger hamburger, European origins Alexander Hamilton Hamm Brewing Company Doctor Emil C. Hansen hard liquor hard liquor, ban on Robert Hare Lafcadio Hearn Heineken beer Mary Foote Henderson Max Henius Patrick Henry "Here's how!" and what to serve with BEER (Frederick) Hillman's home brewing, end of homebrewing efforts homebrewing revival homebrewing, colonial times homebrewing, end of prohibition homebrewing, malt syrup for homebrewing, resurgence after prohibition homebrewing, resurgence of homebrewing, revival homebrewing, using fermentables home-delivery of beer President Hoover hop poultice Hopfin und Malz Extrakt hops in non-food items Housewives Home Canning Methods (Girnau) How to Cook with Beer (Girnau) How to Prepare Wild Game & Fowl (Girnau) Huber brewery Henry Hudson hypocrisy
I J K
ice beer Micheal Iles Indian corn International Centre for Brewing and Distilling J. Lemp Brewery J.E. Siebel Sons' Company Jamaican stouts Jefferson Ale Jennie June's American Cookery Book (Croly) Jerusalem artichokes Jos. Schlitz Beverage Company Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company Joseph Huber Brewing Company Kristopher Kalav Keglined can Kellogg Company Doctor John Harvey Kellogg Will Kellogg kilning, improved methods kraeusening Kraft Krebs Brewing Company Krug Brewing Company Kulmbacher beer
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La Crosse Refining Company La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes (Hearn) La Cuisine Francaise. French Cooking for Every Home (Tanty) labeling machines lager beer breweries, growth of lager beer brewing, scientific methods of lager beer malting, improvements in lager beer oysters, Matthew Vassar's lager beer production, hop and barley lager beer, as drink of moderation lager beer, cloudiness of lager beer, fermenting problems lager beer, German lager as affordable drink lager beer, German-American brewery expansion lager beer, origins of lager beer, peripheral trades, affect on lager beer, westward expansion of Edward V. Lahey Ella Liner Lambert Geoff and Marcy Larson law, casual disregard for Elizabeth Ellicott Lea leaveners, chemical Richard Henry Lee Leinenkugel brewery Eliza Leslie Liberty (magazine) Liberty Island light beer Little Oyster Island Loblaw-Jewel chain Lone Star brewery Lord Chesterfield Ale
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Joseph Chesterfield Mackin Madame Chiang's Chinese Cook Book (Girnau) Madeira in colonial recipes Madeira maizone "Malt-and-Hop" stores malt, Boston imported malt, boycott of English malt, imported as valuable commodity malt, Virginia imported malt, Virginia lacked quality barley malt extract malt houses malt houses, barley processing malt houses, lack of malt rationing, World War II malt substitutes malt syrup and cheese malt syrup as kitchen staple malt syrup for homebrewing malt syrup for vinegar malt syrup in baked goods malt syrup in breads malt syrup in cookies malt syrup in dressings malt syrup in entrees malt syrup in sweets malt syrup industry, self-regulated malt syrup, as kitchen staple malt syrup, as sweetener malt syrup, color depends on kilning malt syrup, cooking with malt syrup, corn syrup vs. malt syrup, for homebrewing malt syrup, hop-flavored malt syrup, in baked goods malt syrup, in breads malt syrup, in candies malt syrup, in cheese products malt syrup, in cookies malt syrup, in dressings malt syrup, in entrŽes malt syrup, in sweets malt syrup, nutritive qualities malt syrup, regulations controlling malt syrup, restricted use and sale malt syrup, vinegar from malting centers, expansion of malting, improved methods Malt-Nutrine Malt-Nutrine, nutritional value Manchuria (barley grain) Manhattan beer manioca market, competition for American Mary Meade's food column Maryland mashing technique, decoction vs. infusion Massachusetts Master Brewers Association of America material conservation, World War I material conservation, World War II Fritz Maytag Jack McAuliffe David McCullough Meister Brau seasonal bock beer men in the kitchen H.L. Mencken Felix Mendelsohn Merrylegs pears (liquor) Metz Bros. Brewing Company Michelob beer Middle Colonies Middle Colonies, Dutch influence in Middle Colonies, English influence in Miller brewery Miller Special Reserve Miller's Clear Beer Peter Minuit Miss Farmer's School of Cookery mixed drinks, sweet Modern Brewery Age Moerlein's National Export Beer Molasses Act (1733) molasses, brewing without molasses, in beer production molasses, in food recipes molasses, in mixed drinks molasses, liqueur from, distilled molasses, malt syrup replacement for molasses, replacement for maly syrup molasses, rum from molasses, small beer molasses, Spruce beer molasses, vinegar from Molson Coors brewery Muenchener beer Mumble-heads (liquor) Leo van Munching Munich-style lagers mushrooms, identifying poisonous
N O
Nash brewery National Beer Wholesalers Association National Brewery National Can Company National Malt Products Manufacturers' Association Navigation Acts (1651) near beer "needle" beer New Albion Brewing New Amsterdam The New England Farmer New England New Hampshire The New Storz Cook Book (Storz) New York Robert Carter Nichols non-alcoholic beer non-alcoholic benchmark Nu-Kraft nutritional value of Barley-Malt oatmeal stout Oderbrucker (barley grain) Governor James Oglethorpe An Open Letter to the American People (Busch) oysters and beer
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Pablo (non-alcoholic Pabst) Pabst Brewing Company Pabst cheeses Pabst-ett (cheese product) Pagosa Springs Brewing Company Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Doctor Louis Pasteur "pasteurization" of bottled beers pearlash William Penn Pennsbury brewhouse Pennsylvania Peter Ballantine brewery Pete's Place brewpub Phenix Cheese Company Philadelphia Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese Pilsen (Plzen) brewery pilsner beer pilsner beer, adjuncts, brewing with pilsner beer, Bohemian pilsner pilsner beer, bottling of pilsner beer, early American pilsner beer, origins of Pilsner Urquell brewery Sir John Pitt Poor Richard's Ale Poor Richard's Tavern Spruce porter beer Poughkeepsie brewpub Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving. A Treatise Containing Practical Instructions in Cooking (Henderson) Premier Malt Joe Prichard Pete Prichard Principles of Brewing Science and An Analysis of Brewing Techniques (Fix) prohibition prohibition, fearing return to prohibition, saloon opposition to prohibiton, repeal of Promptuarium Paravulum public relations campaign
Q R
Quakers Quartering Act (1765) Peyton Randolph Red Hook brewery retail outlets, beer Revenue Act (1764) Rhinelander Bock beer Rhode Island rituals and practices, beer Roanoke settlement Robert Smith Ale Brewing Company Franklin D. Roosevelt Rosie the Riveter Royal Society (London) rum, as debilitating substance rum, demon rum, Pennsylvania duty tax on rum, usage in food rum ration for Continental Army rum trade, influenced American cuisine Jacob Ruppert Benjamin Rush
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SABMiller brewery Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) Saccharomyces uvarum (yeast) salertus (leavening agent) saloon saloon food saloon, beer and lunch in saloon, opposition to during prohibition 1880-1920 (Duis), The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston saloons, opposition to prohibition saltpeter, use of Samuel Adams Boston Lager Samuel Adams Cream Stout Samuel Adams Scotch Ale Sandwich Book of All Nations (Girnau) Schlitz Brewery Schlitz Malt Syrup in the Home (Schlitz) Schmidt brewery Christian Schmidt Scott (barley grain) Session Premium Lager Seven Years' War Paul Shipman ship's beer Shoreline Brewery and Restaurant Siebel Institute of Technology Doctor John E. Siebel Sierra Nevada Brewery Porter Sierra Nevada Brewery Amelia Simmons Tony Simmons Singing Sands Oatmeal Stout skimmings small beer Al Smith sourdough culture for baking Walter Staib steam beer steinies (non-returnable bottles) Stevens Point brewery Graham Stewart Storz Brewing Company Harriet Beecher Stowe Stroh Brewing Company strong beer strong beers, shelf life with Dave and Sam Strupeck suffigkeit beer Sugar Act (1764) sugar, smuggling of non-British super-premium beer
T U
Francois Tanty taste preferences, changing taverns taverns, increased number of tax revenues on beer temperance beer temperance movement Theo. Hamm Brewing Company Thomas Jefferson Tavern Ale Captain George Thorpe 300 New Ways of Making Delicious Sandwiches (Girnau) Throwback Lager Townshend Duties (1767) trade protectionism Treaty of Westminster (1674) Tried and Tested Cookie Recipes (Girnau) twopenny ale William Uihlein United Brewers Industrial Foundation United East India Company United States Brewers Association United States Brewers Foundation
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Vassar College James Vassar Matthew Vassar Vaterland Nathan Vaughn Velveeta cheese Victory Brewing vinegar processing Virginia Virginia, barley cultivation dismissed Virginia, beer in early Virginia, homebrew from fermentables Virginia, imported beer from England Virginia, malt substitutes Virginia, native corn as substitute for barley Virginia, tobacco as cash crop Virginia ale, reliant on English Virginia beer, corn stalk Virginia Company (London) Virginia Gazette Virginia malt barley, lacking quality Virginia malt, imported English Virginia small beer, brewed low-alcohol Volstead Act
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John Wagner Wagner's beer Wahl & Henius Institute of Chicago Doctor Robert Wahl Wahl-Henius Institute War of 1812 Washington Porter George Washington Webb Resolution West India Company West Indies Tom Weston wheat Wayne Wheeler whiskey Whitbread Brewery white corn flakes added to mash White Horse Tavern White House Cook Book: A Selection of Choice Recipes Original & Selected (Ervin and Gillette) Widmer Brothers Blonde Ale Widmer Brothers Brewery Kurt and Rob Widmer Widmer's I.P.A. beer The Wiedemann Book of Unusual Recipes Wiedemann brewery wild yeast causing bad beer President Woodrow Wilson Governor John Winthrop Jr. Wisconsin's State Brewers Association women consumers World Beer Championships Wurzburger beer Wurzburger Hofbrau AG
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Yakima Brewing & Malting Company Yards Brewing Company yeast, baker's yeast, cake of yeast, finding supply of yeast, grain meal for holding yeast, leavening of breads/cakes yeast, pure, isolation of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast, Saccharomyces uvarum yeast, supply of, finding yeast, wild, causing bad beer yeast skimmings yeast strains, isolation of pure Yuengling Traditional Lager
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