Food ideas for bourbon tasting party

[Kosmonaut]

What foods would be good to serve at a bourbon tasting party?

[Emme]

Shrimp Cocktail with Bourbon cocktail sauce

Burgoo!
http://www.horsehats.com/kentucky-der...

Filet of Buffalo with a Bourbon Demi

Blackened Lobster

[David A. Goldfarb]

New York style would be slices of grilled fillet mignon served on rounds of bread, no silverware. Read Joseph Mitchell's story about the New York institution of the "beefsteak" called "All you can hold for five bucks," which is included in his book, _Up in the Old Hotel_ among other places. _The New Yorker_ revisited the phenomenon of the beefsteak a couple of years ago as I recall, but Mitchell's story is a real American culinary classic, and a bourbon tasting and beefsteak seem like a match made in... well let's just say they'd be a good match.

[chica]

Bonbons. =)

I never knew that "Congress declared bourbon to be "America's Native Spirit" and its official distilled spirit." Maybe you can use foods that go with a national theme?

[Kringler]

These are all great ideas. Just now, I ate some chorizo that I ordered from La Tienda with my Woodford Reserve---good, but probably not as good as the Southern USA suggestions by diropstim.

[diropstim]

think Southern, since that's where Bourbon is born: Sweet potato fritters and/or beignets, andouille sausage skewers, boudin noir, spicy boiled shrimp, crawfish boulettes (spicy fried crawfish balls bound with egg, panko, trinity etc), buttermilk fried chicken nuggets, just about anything dipped in remoulade or ravigote sauce... crap this reminds me I think I'm out of bourbon...Oh and spicy pickled okra and string beans ROCK.

[Biggie]

something with bacon to compliment the subtle smokiness of the bourbon

[Kosmonaut]

Hmm. Maple bacon candy, perhaps?

[kate used to be 50]

I am assuming you are having tidbits and not a dinner. So I would suggest an antipasto platter, olives, nuts (salty and/or spicy, or both!).

Of course any pecan sweets would be good. Small pecan cookies bars perhaps?

Enjoy.

[Kosmonaut]

Candied pecans, maybe?

[jillp]

Something involving Colonel Newsom's Kentucky ham.

[Kosmonaut]

Well now, ham is a good idea.

[jillp]

Ham is ALWAYS a good idea. It should be required eating on a regular basis.

[Procrastibaker]

Chocolate!