Web Site of the Week: diffordsguide.com
Posted by: Christine Bulson
Recently I was writing a review of Difford’s Encyclopedia of Cocktails (Firefly, 2009) and discovered diffordsguide.com. Simon Difford apparently includes on this site, all or at least the majority of the recipes that are in the encyclopedia. You don’t have the opportunity to gaze upon a page (heavy stock paper) of recipes for a variety of cocktails using raspberries - Collins, Cosmo, Debonnaire, Lynchburg, Margarita, Maritini. You also miss amusing quotations – “I distrust camels and anyone else who can go for a week without a drink, ” attributed to Joe E. Lewis. The website does offer searching for cocktail recipes by type of cocktail (champagne, fruity, non-alcoholic, etc.), the major ingredients (four seach boxes), and of course the name. As in the print edition cocktails are rated on a scale of 1 to 5. This site is another example of how libraries may save money on acquisitions by using the Internet.
