Does soaking spices in alcohol count as a recipe? Sure does! We’ve had great success with booze-infused peppercorns and wanted to showcase ’em in the book.
But how to visualize? Pepper sitting in a brown liquid could be anything after all. Brand or no brand? First time we shot this, we opted for a little product placement nod to our go-to cooking (and party-mixer) bourbon, a $20 bottle of Bulleit. We’ve met an heiress to the liquor’s legacy at an Echo Park dinner party, so we have a soft spot for Bulleit.
In the end, it was too blatant and not so pretty. The solution, and one of our only dirty little photo shoot food tricks: the pic we ended up choosing is not of bourbon at all, but peppercorns floating in apple cider vinegar.
