Part memoir, part guidebook, part cookbook, and all partshilarious, Two for the Road shares the lessons the Sterns havelearned during thirty years of sampling regional fare on America'sback roads. If you want a great restaurant, forget the YellowPages, ask the local cop--and avoid anything that calls itself"world famous." Sure bets are places with a giant plastic pig onthe roof or pictures of Jesus on the walls. As the Sterns searchfor the Holy Grail of barbecue, they relate achingly funnyadventures and misadventures, and what emerges is a big picture ofAmerica, revealing exotic eating customs that flourish right underour noses.

对于在商店、餐馆或网上购买葡萄酒的人来说，这是一本必不可少的参考书。现在已经是它出版的第41年，作为一个全面的，*新的年度指南，目前无任何竞争对手。 休.约翰逊为全世界的葡萄酒、种植者和葡萄酒产区提供了简明扼要的事实和评论。他展示了哪些葡萄酒可以买，哪些可以喝，哪些可以去酒窖，哪些种植者可以去寻找，以及原因。书中提供关于葡萄品种的明确信息，当地特产，以及如何搭配葡萄酒，使得两种食物口感达到*佳。这款新版本还包括西拉和加纳克葡萄的彩色增刊 Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 41st year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute annual guide. Hugh Johnson provides clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world. He

BBQ-joint owner Lulu Taylor knows pretty much everyone inMemphis who loves ribs. But one person she'd rather not know isTristan Pembroke, a snooty pageant coach with a mean streak. Whenshe finds Tristan's dead body stuffed in a closet at a party, thepolice are suspicious- especially since Lulu's developed a tastefor being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Caught in asituation stickier than molasses, Lulu must clear her name, or riskgetting fried...

By now, you’ve heard of (and maybe tried) them all: thelow-carb diet, the grapefruit diet, the miracle diet . . . the listgoes on and on. Fad diets may promise a quick fix, but few deliverlasting results. If you’re like millions of other Americans, you’restill struggling to lose weight and get in shape—without harmingyour long-term health in the process. It’s time to leave behind the one-size-fits-all approach todieting. Now, the American Heart Association, the nation’s mosttrusted authority on heart-healthy living, introduces itsfirst-ever comprehensive weight-loss book. No-Fad Diet helpsyou create a personalized plan to lose weight in a healthful way.After a simple assessment of your current habits, you choose theeating and exercise strategies that best fit your needs. You’lllearn how to set realistic goals, eat well to lose extra poundssafely, and add physical activity to keep the weight off forgood. This book offers more than 190 delicious, all-new recipes,including Cream of Triple-Mush

From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbookpublishing-one of the food world's most admired figures-comes thisevocative and inspiring memoir. Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of blandAmerican food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. Onreturning to the States she published Julia Child's Mastering theArt of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomichistory. A new world now opened up to Jones as she discovered, withher husband Evan, the delights of American food, publishing some ofthe premier culinary luminaries of the twentieth century: fromJulia Child, James Beard, and M.F.K. Fisher to Claudia Roden, EdnaLewis, and Lidia Bastianich. Here also are fifty of Jones'sfavorite recipes collected over a lifetime of cooking-each with itsown story and special tips. The Tenth Muse is an absolutelycharming memoir by a woman who was present at the creation of theAmerican food revolution and played a pivotal role in shapingit.

What was eating them? And vice versa. In What the Great Ate, Matthew and Mark Jacob have cooked up abountiful sampling of the peculiar culinary likes, dislikes,habits, and attitudes of famous—and often notorious—figuresthroughout history. Here is food · As code: Benito Mussolini used the phrase “we’re makingspaghetti” to inform his wife if he’d be (illegally) dueling laterthat day. · As superstition: Baseball star Wade Boggs credited his on-fieldsuccess to eating chicken before nearly every game. · In service to country: President Thomas Jefferson, America’soriginal foodie, introduced eggplant to the United States and wrotedown the nation’s first recipe for ice cream. From Emperor Nero to Bette Davis, Babe Ruth to Barack Obama, thebite-size tidbits in What the Great Ate will whet your appetite fortantalizing trivia.