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Donna Sue's Down Home Trailer Park Bartender's Guide
by Donna Sue Boxcar and RuAnn Boxcar
Available from Amazon
$11.01
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Features
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Citadel September 1, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0806525657
ISBN-13: 978-0806525655
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
From Publishers Weekly
Following in the footsteps of Ruby Ann Boxcar (Ruby Ann's Down Home BBQin' Cookbook), sibling Donna Sue Boxcar serves up the liquor to go with her younger sister's cooking. But the outcome isn't quite the same-the asides aren't as witty (mostly, they are straightforward, but with g's lopped of the end of words, as in "marryin' your own cousins"). Many of the drinks might actually please drinkers who don't live in trailer parks, though. Boxcar, who works as a barmaid and exotic dancer at the Blue Whale Strip Club, opens her book up with a toast: "May your glass always be full and your bottom up." After a solid primer on stocking the bar and bartending tips ("don't be afraid of tastin' a guest's drink before servin' but never take a sip from a guest's glass, unless you know for sure he's in the bathroom"), Boxcar breaks down chapters by alcohol type, offering her own mixes alongside traditional drinks: there's the Quickie (bourbon, white rum, triple sec), the Italian Surfer (brandy, amaretto, pineapple juice, cherry) and the Stripper's Slipper (gin, triple sec and several juices). The often funny photos might warrant a toast, such as a photo of stripper Ms. Amy with a pet slug on her shoulder, which prompts Boxcar to recall her own animal act: "I was performin' and a cockroach fell out of my bra."
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
A while ago my husband decided to take up bartending as a hobby. He got a drink guide, but that's all it was: a drink guide. So this past November for our wedding anniversary I bought him this book. He was thrilled. Donna Sue's Down Home Trailer Park Bartending Book does what all other mixology books should do: it takes you by the hand, and shows you how to set up a bar, what items are the most popular, and how to mix a drink correctly. This book first introduces you to the wildly zany coworkers of Donna Sue's at the Blue Whale Strip Club where she dances and enjoys making drinks mostly for herself. Then after you've laughed till you've cried, it teaches you about the tools of the trade, teaching you things like what glass to use, etc. It gives you mixing tips, and then a whole lot of drink recipes, which are divided by the main ingredient in them. It has a chapter a list of what your humble but equipped home bar should have. It also has a great chapter on shots and one that even includes bad pickup lines. As a bartender, my husband is far from pro, but now he has a skill he can use when friends come over as well as some funny Donna Sue stories to share. The book is informative, precise, extremely comical, and very very helpful.
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