http://www.killingtime.com/Pegu/2008/07/30/book-review-jigger-beaker-glass/ A site about Pegus, and other ramblings on the cocktail life. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.killingtime.com/Pegu/2008/07/30/book-review-jigger-beaker-glass/comment-page-1/#comment-2658 Daniel Luth Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:02:28 +0000 http://www.killingtime.com/Pegu/?p=362#comment-2658 Where can I acquire a copy of The Charles H. Baker Jr. Companion please? Where can I acquire a copy of The Charles H. Baker Jr. Companion please?

]]> http://www.killingtime.com/Pegu/2008/07/30/book-review-jigger-beaker-glass/comment-page-1/#comment-835 Tex Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:37:21 +0000 http://www.killingtime.com/Pegu/?p=362#comment-835 Doug I agree with your sentiments about this book--that it is fabulously entertaining, and a valuable but impractical resource. If you are aware of St. John Frizell's work on this subject then please disregard this notice. But if not, I attended his seminar on this book at Tales and acquired a copy of The Charles H. Baker Jr. Companion, which lays to rest many of the concerns about this work's poor organization and indexing. I have been using it side by side with the original book and it is extremely helpful. Frizell and Martin Doudoroff have indexed all of the drinks by name as well as by ingredient; and have standardized the recipes into a format that is more useful than Baker's paragraph style. (He also has a biographical article about Baker in the current Oxford American, which I have yet to read.) Doug I agree with your sentiments about this book–that it is fabulously entertaining, and a valuable but impractical resource. If you are aware of St. John Frizell’s work on this subject then please disregard this notice. But if not, I attended his seminar on this book at Tales and acquired a copy of The Charles H. Baker Jr. Companion, which lays to rest many of the concerns about this work’s poor organization and indexing. I have been using it side by side with the original book and it is extremely helpful. Frizell and Martin Doudoroff have indexed all of the drinks by name as well as by ingredient; and have standardized the recipes into a format that is more useful than Baker’s paragraph style. (He also has a biographical article about Baker in the current Oxford American, which I have yet to read.)

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