Chow Venice: Savoring the Food and Wine of La Serenissima
by Ruth Edenbaum, Shannon Essa
 | | The city of Venice is one of the most beautiful in the world, but a visit is too often marred by meals at bad restaurants with high prices, unscrupulous waiters, and tasteless food. With this book in hand, the traveller will find the best places to eat and drink in Venice, from a simple sandwich to pizza to an elegant four course meal, in places off the beaten track as well as steps away from the Piazza San Marco. The reader will learn how, when and what the Venetians eat and drink, where to get the best cichetti (Venetian bar snacks) and where to find restaurants and bars open after 10.00pm. In addition to forty restaurants and forty bars, there is a list of markets, speciality food stores and wine shops. Whether you are visiting Venice for three days, three weeks or three months, Chow! Venice is a guidebook that will prove invaluable.
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| The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine: New and Improved
by Dorothy J. Gaiter, John Brecher
| | Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, authors of The Wall Street Journal's popular "Tastings" column, have now completely updated and expanded their uniquely user-friendly guide to finding and savoring the world's best wine. As in the first edition, Dottie and John-as they are known to their fans-offer practical, knowledgeable tips to guide you through the bewildering rows of bottles found in wine stores and groceries.
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| Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers
by Malcolm Kushner
| | The world's first complete book of wine humor. Hundreds of funny quotes, definitions, anecdotes and news items about mankind's favorite beverage. Plus wine cartoons from The New Yorker.
The perfect gift for anyone interested in wine. And that's no joke!
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| The Instant Wine Connoisseur
by Mervyn L. Hecht, Judy Lamm
| | A practical guide to tasting, buying, and cooking with wine. With its help you'll proceed immediately onto what's really important: the taste of wines. It is not a book "that requires you to study and memorize . . . because people don't do that, most wine drinkers are lost when . . . looking for a wine label. So I lead you into tasting the differences among the major wines . . . with just enough information to get you started, for you to enjoy the great pleasure of wine."
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| Red, White and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass
| | In Red, White and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass, Natalie MacLean chronicles her last three years sipping, spitting and slogging her way through the international wine world to visit some its most evocative places and to meet some of its most charismatic, obsessive and innovative characters. This journey includes tasting the world’s most seductive pinot noir in Burgundy’s ancient vineyards, picking grapes under a hot California sun, working retail at a high-tech shop in New York City, disgorging champagne bottles (nearly taking out the cellar master’s eye) and working at a five-star restaurant (dripping red wine across the table linens). The book has been described as A Year in Provence meets Kitchen Confidential then goes Sideways.
Red, White and Drunk All Over was recently chosen the Best Wine Literature Book in the English language at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The competition receives more than 6,000 books from 60 countries each year. The awards were created at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany ten years ago to reward those who \"cook and drink with words.\" The book has become a bestseller and is now in its fourth reprinting.
Rex Pickett, author of Sideways, says that Natalie “writes about wine with a sensuous obsession and her book is “often laugh-out-loud funny… terrific.” Eric Asimov of the New York Times, notes that, “Ms. MacLean is the disarming Everywoman … she loves wine, loves drinking … a winning formula.” Newsweek observes, “MacLean\'s book refreshes with its evenhanded treatment of the outsized personalities populating this industry” The Los Angeles Times believes that “Red, White, and Drunk All Over will please the palates of wine lovers everywhere.” To listen to an excerpt from the book, and for Natalie’s free food-and-wine matching tool and e-newsletter, visit www.nataliemaclean.com.
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| On Wine: A Master Sommelier and Master of Wine Tells All
by Doug Frost with foreword by Robert Mondavi
| | Down-to-earth and full of good information, Doug Frost's On Wine reflects its author's relaxed yet authoritative approach to the grape's joys. Why is wine less popular in America than it should be? "Because people are confused as to how it's to be used," says the commonsensical Frost, one of only three people to have achieved Master of Wine and Master Sommelier distinctions.
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| Blood is Thicker than Beaujolais
The Wine Lover's Mystery Series
by Tony Aspler
| | Tony Aspler is the creator of these vintage mystery novels in which Ezra Brant (an internationally known wine writer) solves an intriguing series of murders in three of the world's most renowned wine regions. Along the way, Brant tastes his way through the fascinating inner sanctum of the wine world, from exclusive award ceremonies to centuries-old and suspenseful wine cellars.
When Ezra Brant travels to France for the release of the Beaujolais Nouveau, he never imagines that he will stumble upon murder, fraud, and international intrigue – starting with a body tumbling through a cave-cellar trapdoor.
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| Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide
by Pierre-Antoine Rovani (Contributor), Robert M., Jr. Parker
| Wine Faqs: Real Questions-Real Answers
by Anita L. Laraia
| | Wine FAQ's: Real Questions--Real Answers is a super book for the wine lover--easy to read, easy to handle or transport in purse or briefcase, easy to understand, easy to reference, easy on the eyes. One no longer needs to be in a quandry about which wine to purchase or serve when this book is part of your library.
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| How To Pronounce French, German, and Italian Wine Names
By Diana Bellucci
| | Using the proven Bellucci Method™ with (Quietics)™, readers learn the proper phonetic pronunciation of more than 15,000 wine names, terms, regions and grape varieties in five different languages - French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. With the help of professional language teachers trained in the Bellucci Method™, mastering the French nasal n, the German umlaut, and the Spanish rolling r has never been easier. Even the most linguistically-challenged person can quickly and painlessly reference the proper wine pronunciation without having to learn international languages, and can concentrate on any curriculum or conversation at hand.
“carefully crafted pronunciations… only the strictest linguists will quibble with her results.” ~ Mark Knoblauch, ALA Booklist January, 2004
“A new book may help...Its goal is not to teach you the languages comprehensively, but simply to make you more confident the next time you order wine” ~ Dana Nigro, WineSpectator.com October, 2003
“This is one of the best and most effective methods I’ve seen on the subject.” ~ Karen MacNeil, author of The Wine Bible
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| Wine for Women : A Guide to Buying, Pairing, and Sharing Wine
by Leslie Sbrocco (Author)
| | Leslie's first book, Wine for Women, A Guide to Buying, Pairing and Sharing Wine, published by (William Morrow/HarperCollins) is due out in October 2003. Written with the majority of wine counsumers in mind, the book is focused on helping women squeeze more enjoyment out of every bottle sipped and dollar spent on wine. It's a fresh and informative resource that makes exploring wine easy.
You'll also find Leslie's unique approach to pairing wine with food and her practical tips for entertaining make this a must have book for anyone who enjoys wine.
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| WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT
by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page
| | The most comprehensive guide to matching food and drink ever compiled, by the James Beard Award-winning author team of Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg, with practical advice from more than 70 of America's leading pairing experts.
At a great meal, what you drink is just as important as what you eat. This groundbreaking food and beverage pairing reference allows food lovers to learn to think like a sommelier, and to transform every meal — breakfast, lunch, and dinner — from ordinary to extraordinary.
Exceptional in its depth and scope — with over 1500 entries — WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT is based on the collective wisdom of experts at dozens of America's best restaurants, including Alinea, Babbo, Bern's, Blue Hill, Chanterelle, Daniel, Emeril's, The French Laundry, Frontera Grill, The Inn at Little Washington, Jean Georges, Masa's, The Modern, Per Se, Rubicon, Tru and Valentino.
You'll find authoritative recommendations for stocking your cellar and kitchen with must-have beverages, from wines to waters. You'll also learn what to drink with everything from French toast to Chinese food, and what to eat with everything from Pinot Noir to green tea, to create mouthwatering matches. Follow the authors' three simple "Rules to Remember" when making a match — or just dive into the wide-ranging listings in chapters 5 and 6.
This "incisive, hip writing team" (Publishers Weekly) distills history, geography, science, expert technique, and original insight to create a remarkably user-friendly and engaging reference sure to become an instant classic essential to every connoisseur's bookshelf.
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| The Encyclopedia of Sauces for Your Food
by Charles A. Bellissino, Kimberly L. Bellissimo (Illustrator), Joan Packard (Editor)
| | The Encyclopedia of Sauces for Your Food is a 35 year personal, proprietary and professional collection of favorite sauces for all the foods you'll eat, except pasta. It's uniqueness is in the layout, where virtually every chapter is dedicated to a single type food. The book begins with a chapter on Glazes and Stocks, which are the basis for so many great sauces. Followed by an extraordinary chapter of sauces, that are a chef's dream collection of the worlds most famous and often used sauces.
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| Windows on the World Wine Course: 2002 Edition
by Kevin Zraly, Peter M. F. Sichel (Introduction)
| | Subtitled Millennium Edition, this 14th annual update is again authored by Kevin Zraly, founder and teacher of the Wine School, begun in 1976 as an offshoot of New York's Windows on the World restaurant. On 200 colorful and clutter-free pages full of maps, wine labels, and sidebars full of facts and anecdotes, Zraly acts as your Sherpa through eight classes.
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| Australian Wine Vintages 2003
by Robin Bradley
| | This unique and famous annually up-dated guide to the wines of Australia has 12,000 entries covering 1,400 wines from 360 makers.
Available as a 372 page superbly printed 5 colour pocket-sized book.
The current edition is the 20th (2003) published in August 2002.
Each wine listed is ranked out of a maximum of 5 stars by author Robin Bradley (including some superb wines which earn the Gold Star status - among the great wines of the world), and each vintage of each wine is rated by the winemakers out of a maximum of 7.
The makers also stipulate the ideal year to drink each wine, and there is a dollar value calculated for every entry (except where the ideal time to have drunk the wine is prior to now).
Over 800,000 copies in all editions have been sold, an indication of how indispensable the Gold Book has become to wine lovers since the first edition in 1979.
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| Andrea Immer's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone
by Andrea Immer, Anthony Giglio (Editor)
| The Wine Bible
by Karen MacNeil
| | Though it drinks deep of its subject, Karen MacNeil's Wine Bible deftly avoids two traps many wine books fall into: talking down to wine novices or talking up to more experienced enophiles. The book avoids these traps through MacNeil's obvious, and infectious, love of her subject, which comes out in almost every sentence of the book, and which lets her talk about wine in a way that combines the good teacher, the trusted friend, and the expert sommelier.
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| The Encyclopedia of Sauces for Your Pasta
by Charles A. Bellissino, Enid Wingate (Editor), Eleanor Dedic-Aievoli (Editor)
| | The Encyclopedia of Sauces for Your Pasta The culmination of a 56 year collection of practical and delicious pasta sauce recipes from my family, family, associates and any little old Italian lady I could sweet talk into giving me her personal favorite recipe. For your convenience the book is arranged by ingredient groupings, so you can select sauces made from tomatoes, vegetables, creams, nut meats, seafood, red meat, poultry, herbs, legumes, butter and oils, fruits, cheeses, wines and liqueurs.
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| Wine for Every Day and Every Occasion : Red, White, and Bubbly to Celebrate the Joy of Living (Hardcover)
| | From Publishers Weekly
Rather than overload budding oenophiles with a comprehensive survey of winemaking, grape varietals, regions and producers (which Gaiter and Brecher nicely did in The Wall Street Journal Guide to Wine), the authors of the WSJ's "Tastings" column structure this book around holidays, events and common challenges such as traveling, negotiating wine lists and shopping confidently. It's an accessible, pleasurable read, showcasing the couple's unpretentious love of wine, from the jug to the rare vintage.
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| The Italian-American Cookbook: A Feast of Food from a Great American Cooking Tradition
by John Mariani
| Death on the Douro
The Wine Lover's Mystery Series
by Tony Aspler
| | Tony Aspler is the creator of these vintage mystery novels in which Ezra Brant (an internationally known wine writer) solves an intriguing series of murders in three of the world's most renowned wine regions. Along the way, Brant tastes his way through the fascinating inner sanctum of the wine world, from exclusive award ceremonies to centuries-old and suspenseful wine cellars.
A series of bizarre, murderous accidents interferes with Ezra Brant's visit to an old friend's port farm and winery - a Quinta - and interrupts his research for an upcoming book. His research reveals the story of a man who drowned in the Douro in 1861 – an event Brant is convinced was murder. When murder strikes the Quinta, twin investigations into past and present murders come together in a shocking and unpredicable way.
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