Use this as practitioner culinary evidence, not as chemical or alcohol-safety authority.
Chef-method section preceding the recipes.
Lee distinguishes a bottle’s full tasting profile from the narrower flavor function that remains after reduction, dilution, heat, and interaction with other ingredients.
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How to Cook with Bourbon
Paraphrase checked against searchable text and the rendered PDF sheets 30–33 on 2026-08-27; PDF-sheet pagination, not print pagination.
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Paraphrase: Lee distinguishes a bottle’s full tasting profile from the narrower flavor function that remains after reduction, dilution, heat, and interaction with other ingredients.
Context: Chef-method section preceding the recipes.
Boundary: Use this as practitioner culinary evidence, not as chemical or alcohol-safety authority.
Locator: 30–33. Numerical coordinates are supplied PDF sheets, not print pages. This passage was checked within the full338-sheet textual and visual review. Verification confirms the attributed paraphrase, not every underlying claim or an independent experiment.
Bourbon as Kentucky foodway, landscape, and institution — Lee