"Jim Beam Bourbon Cookbook: Over 70 Recipes & Cocktails to Make with Bourbon,” Thunder Bay Press, $19.99, 192 pages, hardcover Driving through Kentucky to take in the state’s bourbon trail and the ...

Admittedly, I was a bit trepidatious about taking on this assignment. I am certainly a bourbon drinker and I love a classic Old Fashioned or Manhattan, or sometimes at the end of a long night, just a ...