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Coffee Drinks | 
| Author: Michael Turback
Creator: Leo Gong
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 358011
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 104
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1580089267
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.3373
EAN: 9781580089265
ASIN: 1580089267
Publication Date: September 2008
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Product Description
Whether you're attracted to the aroma, the ritual, the caffeine, or all of the above, these innovative drinks will keep the senses percolating. Recipe contributors include cutting-edge coffee purveyors and a highly competitive cadre of coffeehouse baristas.
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| Customer Reviews:
 excelent recipes October 26, 2008
Christine H. (Eaton Rapids, michigan)
very nice book with some simple coffee recipes. I like the fact it has pictures to see the final product
 Not equal to Turback's previous books October 21, 2008
H. Grove (Maryland, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was looking forward to Michael Turback's Coffee Drinks cookbook with great anticipation. I absolutely adored his Mocha and Hot Chocolate. They're adventurous books, and require a willingness to hunt down unusual ingredients or get creative if you're missing a piece of equipment, but despite that they're eminently usable by a creative and open-minded cook. Unfortunately, I can't entirely say the same about Coffee Drinks.
When you can get to the finished products in this book, they are quite delicious. So if you have an espresso machine, a frother, and a whipped cream canister that takes nitrous oxide chargers, then you won't have any trouble making some amazing drinks out of here. That said, there are still other concerns. One is that, while the book does include sources for all of the unusual ingredients and equipment, there's still the possibility that some things won't be available for very long or are very expensive. For example, there's a recipe that uses fennel pollen as an ingredient. In addition, many of these recipes are quite complex---a much larger proportion of them, it seems to me, than in those previous books.
I don't mind a coffee drinks book that's designed to cater to people with expensive or gourmet tastes. However, the previous Turback books always reined that in with an edge of practicality. That isn't the case this time, in my opinion.
This is also the first of his books where I've found anything in a recipe that appeared to be a mistake. For example, the reason why some of the recipes in this book require a whipped cream canister with nitrous oxide chargers is because they make whipped cream out of a mixture that's mostly half-and-half. One of those recipes says that you can use a mixer instead. However, having tried to do so (and yes, we have a good, high-powered mixer), I can assure you that no matter how long you sit there going at it on the highest speed, it isn't going to whip up---it simply doesn't have enough fat content to do so without help.
I'm rating Coffee Drinks as highly as I am because of those delicious results, and because it does have one ideal audience---professional and hobby baristas. People who have all the expensive gadgetry that goes with making fine coffee and don't mind hunting down expensive or rare ingredients. People who don't mind spending an hour or so on one set of drinks, making a variety of syrups or other components. I'm disappointed, however, that the book doesn't make it clear on the outside that its value is so limited outside of this audience---and I'm even more disappointed that Turback didn't write this book to appeal to the wider audience of his other books.
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