Beverages category: 3182 books
Cork Dork
A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK
“Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably...
The Billionaire's Vinegar
The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it.
The New York Times bestseller, updated with a new epilogue, that tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas...
Judgment of Paris
California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
The only reporter present at the mythic Paris Tasting of 1976—a blind tasting where a panel of esteemed French judges chose upstart California wines over France’s best—for the first time introduces the eccentric American winemakers and records the tremendous aftershocks of this historic event...
For All the Tea in China
How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China
In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China—territory...
Quick and Easy Thai
70 Everyday Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Now busy home cooks can bring the fantastic flavors of Thai cuisine into the kitchen with a simple trip to the grocery store. Nancie McDermott, experienced cook, teacher, and author of the best-selling cookbook Real Thai, presents this collection of 70 delicious recipes that focus on easy-to-find...
Making Homemade Wine
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-75
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 1981
Want to impress your friends? Serve up some outstanding wine with dinner--and then tell them it's homemade!
In Making Homemade Wine, author Robert Cluett takes the mystery out of winemaking. Using his simple nine-step process, you'll learn how to make superb-tasting wines right in your own...
Educating Peter
How I Taught a Famous Movie Critic the Difference Between Cabernet and Merlot or How Anybody Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Lettie Teague knows wine. She has been the wine editor at Food & Wine magazine for almost a decade. The only question she is asked more than "Can you recommend a great wine for under $10?" -- great cheap white: Argiolas Costamolino Vermentino from Sardinia; great cheap red: Alamos Malbec from Argentina...
by Jeff Alworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Winner of a 2016 IACP Award
The ultimate reader- and drinker-friendly guide to the world’s ales and beers, and the book that approaches the subject in the same way beer lovers do—by style, just like a welcoming pub menu.
Divided into four major families—ales, lagers, wheat beers,...
Tangled Vines
Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberately...
by Estelle Carraz-Bernabei
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Enhance your life with the great therapeutic and healthful benefits of teas. From green tea to herbal decoctions that can treat obesity to the common cold. Find useful ways to relax the mind, strengthen the body, and soothe the soul. In the book of Healing Teas for your Body, Mind & Soul you will discover:...
And a Bottle of Rum, Revised and Updated
A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Now revised, updated, and with new recipes, And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquors
From the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits and cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a history...
by Paul Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
This book is a handy guide on how to make 50 Quick Cocktails. Some famous and favourite cocktail recipes are included, along with some new ones for you to try. Why not try a Vodka Martini, a TNT, or maybe even slip 'Between The Sheets' for your favourite drink. Please drink responsibly.
by Karen MacNeil
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Announcing the completely revised and updated edition of The Wine Bible, the perennial bestselling wine book praised as “The most informative and entertaining book I’ve ever seen on the subject” (Danny Meyer), “A guide that has all the answers” (Bobby Flay), “Astounding” (Thomas Keller),...
by Sharon Tyler Herbst
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
What's a Dirty Martini? How do you pronounce Cuarenta Y Tres? Which glass do you use for a Stinger? How did the Margarita get its name?
Answers to these questions and thousands more can be found in The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide**,** a one-stop, user-friendly cocktail guide featuring more than...