Everything you could possibly want to know about wine, in one fully up-to-date A-Z volume!The Oxford Companion to Wine is a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth A-Z reference book on every aspect of wine:more than 4,000 entries covering topics from history through geography, geology, soil science, viticulture, winemaking, packaging, academia, technology, and regulations to people and places, tasting, writing, and the language of wine. The system of cross-references takes the reader from one entry to another, showing how all these topics are interconnected in the fascinating story of wine in its most traditional and modern forms. This new fifth edition, which benefits from the knowledge and experience of over one hundred new contributors, all experts in their field or geographical region, is expanded by 272 new entries, and every existing entry has been reviewed, updated, and polished. The text is more international than ever, written for wine lovers of every persuasion, including those who love wine but want

Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780804185592 Author 作者 Thorisson, Mimi Pages Number 页数 304页 Publisher 出版社 Clarkson Potter Publishers Publication Date 出版日期 2014年10月28日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 16开 Shipping Weight 商品重量 566g Language 语种 ENG Book Contents 内容简介 With beguiling recipes and sumptuous photography, "A Kitchen in France" transports readers to the French countryside and marks the debut of a captivating new voice in cooking. When Mimi Thorisson and her family moved from Paris to a small town in out-of-the-way Medoc, she did not quite know what was in store for them. She found wonderful ingredients--from local farmers and the neighboring woods--and, most important, time to cook. Her cookbook chronicles the family's seasonal meals and life in an old farmhouse, all photographed by her husband, Oddur. Mimi's convivial recipes--such as Roast Chicken with Herbs and Creme Fraic

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Coffee has never been better, ormore interesting, than it is today. Coffee producers have access tomore varieties and techniques than ever before and we, asconsumers, can share in that expertise to make sure the coffee wedrink is the best we can find. Where coffee comes from, how it washarvested, the roasting process and the water used to make the breware just a few of the factors that influence the taste of what wedrink. Champion barista and coffee roaster James Hoffmann examinesthese key factors, looking at varieties of coffee, the influence ofterroir, how it is harvested and processed, the roasting methodsused, through to the way in which the beans are brewed. Country bycountry - from Bolivia to Zambia - he then identifies keycharacteristics and the methods that determine the quality of thatcountry's output. Along the way we learn about everything from thedevelopment of the espresso machine, to why strength guides onsupermarket coffee are really not good news. This is the first bookto chart the coffe

Don’t run. Don’t hide. Vegan cookies are going to invade yourcookie jar, one delicious bite at a time. Join award-winning bakersIsa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero (authors of the hitcookbook Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World) as they continue theirworld-domination mission—with dairy- and egg-free batches ofeveryone’s favorite treats. Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar includes more than 100irresistible recipes for cookies, bars, biscotti, brownies, andmore. Discover festive desserts that are sure to impress family andfriends at any occasion, from birthdays to bake sales. Or simplytempt yourself with: ? Magical Coconut Cookie Bars ? Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Brownies ? Peanut Butter Crisscrosses ? NYC Black Whites ? Key Lime Shortbread Rounds ? Call Me Blondies ? Macadamia Lace Cookies Throughout the book, Isa and Terry share their best mixing,baking, and decorating techniques and tackle age-old cookieconundrums. Learn the sec

The extremes of American eating--our equal urges to stuff and tostarve ourselves--are easy to blame on the excesses of modernliving. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of theAmerican intestine back to that cold morning when the firstfamished Pilgrim clambered off the Mayflower, and he discovered thealarming truth: We've been this way all along. With outraged witand an incredible range of sources that includes everything fromCotton Mather's diary to interviews with Amish black-marketraw-milk dealers, Kaufman offers a highly selective,take-no-prisoners tour of American history by way of the Americanstomach. Travel with him as he tracks down our earliest foodies;discovers the secret history of Puritan purges; introduces dietgurus of the nineteenth century such as William Alcott, whobelieved that "Nothing ought to be mashed before it is eaten";traces extreme feeders from Paul Bunyan to eating-contest champDale Boone (descended from Daniel, of course); and investigates ourblithe efforts to re-create

Lucky Peach is a journal of food writing, published on aquarterly basis by McSweeney's. It is a creation of David Chang,the James Beard Award-winning chef behind the Momofuku restaurantsin New York, Momofuku cookbook cowriter Peter Meehan, and ZeroPoint Zero Production--producers of the Travel Channel's EmmyAward-winning Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. The result of this collaboration is a melange of travelogue,essays, art, photography, and rants in a full-color, meticulouslydesigned format. Recipes will defy the tiredingredients-and-numbered-steps formula. They'll be laid outsensibly, inspired by the thought process that went into developingthem. The aim of Lucky Peach is to give a platform to a brand offood writing that began with unorthodox authors like Bourdain,resulting in a publication that appeals to diehard foodies as wellas fans of good writing and art in general. What's inside? -David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, remembers his fathervia pickles and cream. -Jonathan Gold and Robert Siets

Now in paperback–the debut cookbook from the beloved Italiancook, restaurateur, and public television personality. Lidia Bastianich is famous for her Italian-American cooking, butthis cookbook–her first–captures the distinctive cuisine of hernative Istria, located on Italy’s northeastern Adriatic coast nearthe border of the former Yugoslavia. This book is also her mostpersonal; in addition to the recipes, she has included numerouspersonal stories, memories, and photographs from herchildhood. With La Cucina di Lidia, you can savor antipasti such as Polentawith Fontina and Mushrooms or Shrimp and Mixed Bean Salad. Rice andpastas include Plum Gnocchi, Risotto with Squash Blossoms, andZucchini and Tagliatelle with Leek Sauce. Entrées feature fish(Swordfish in Sweet and Sour Sauce), fowl (Roast Chicken withRosemary and Orange), meat (Stuffed Breast of Veal), and game (DuckRoasted with Sauerkraut). Desserts range from Chocolate ZabaglioneCake to Apple-Custard Tart. Here is an Itali