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General News: New Book About Gin from A to Z
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| Gaz Regan. |
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| The book is available from Xlibris. |
September 28, 2009
If you ever want to impress your friends with your intimate knowledge of the many varieties of gin, there’s a new book out that tells you everything you’d ever want to know about the drink.
Local Cornwall author and cocktail mixologist Gaz Regan wrote The Gin Compendium, a 370-page guide to the intricate flavors of the popular liquor. Gaz, aka Gary, Regan got the idea for the hefty tome when he was moving between homes and realized the masses of information he had accumulated about gin was enough to write a book.
The son of pub owners on the northwest coast of England, Gaz grew up behind the “stick” pouring ale and he’s made the finer points of alcohol consumption into a career. He’s been writing about cocktails and concocting delicious drink recipes -- some of which you will find in his new book – for years as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and as the author of several books, including The Joy of Mixology.
In The Gin Compendium, readers will find amusing anecdotes about Gaz’s early attempts to serve martinis and other mixed drinks to bankers, actors, rugby players and diplomats in a neighborhood bar on the upper East Side of New York or down at a British pub at the South Street Seaport, where British bankers sought solace and familiarity --- and, of course, gin.
Gin today can be found with an amazing variety of ingredients, Gaz discovered when he did more research for the book. The foundation of gin is juniper berries, but the herbs that go into many contemporary gins come straight off the apothecary’s shelf. There’s angelica root, chamomile, rose petal, orris root and bergamont, just to name a few of the ingredients used to create a New Western dry gin,
Traditionalists will learn what’s special about their favorites, be it Bombay Dry Gin or Beefeater Gin, and they may even be tempted to experiment with Juniper Green Organic Gin or some Rogue Pink Spruce Gin, all profiled in The Gin Compendium.
Even if not a gin drinker, readers will enjoy reading Regan’s humorous accounts of his missteps in the bartender business, where he is now put on a pedestal by many for his cocktail expertise. Some 1,500 bartenders subscribe to his online newsletter filled with cocktail ideas and recipes; another 6,500 are followers of Ardent Spirits, an online website he writes with Mardee Regan.
The book itself can be purchased from Amazon.com or in selected bookstores. Gaz published the book through Xlibris, a self-publisher who prints the book on demand. He got the book in print with the help of many, including local food writer and editor Martha Schueneman, a Cornwall-on-Hudson resident, who edited it.
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