Chipotle Chicken Wings Spiked With Maker's Mark

Take some boozy advice from chef John Currence, the proprietor of Oxford, Mississippi’s iconic City Grocery, Boure, Snackbar, Main Event, Fat Eddie’s Lamar Lounge, and Big Bad Breakfast. The James Beard-winner isn’t shy about including a bit of bourbon in the recipes that fill his newest cookbook — Big Bad Breakfast: The Most Important Meal of the Day (Ten Speed Press). Among the breakfast and brunch entrees curated from other cooks and colleagues is this finger-lickin’ good wings recipe created by Genevieve Ko, a baker, recipe maker, and the author of Better Baking: Wholesome Ingredients,  Delicious Desserts (Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).  Ko’s Chipotle Chicken Wings recipe borrows a cup of inspiration from Currence’s Big Bad Breakfast restaurant and mixes in a heavy pour of Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon, the distilled whisky that uses red winter wheat rather than rye as its flavoring grain, allowing it to sit on the forward palate of the tongue.