Download or read book Africa Uncorked written by John Platter and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cloth edition of Africa Uncorked won the Glenfiddich Best Drink Book and the Gourmand Best Book in the World on New World Wines prizes."Vivid and absorbing: the first really new departure in wine books since-when?" -Hugh Johnson"Wise and visionary ... an exceptionally good read." -Jancis Robinson, editor of the Oxford Companion to Wine
Download or read book Time Out Cape Town written by Editors Out and published by Time Out. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated dramatically where two oceans meet at the base of the Table Mountains, Cape Town boasts stunning beaches, an irresistible Mediterranean climate, delicious cuisine, and affordability. Time Out Cape Town profiles the city's best places to stay, play, dine, and visit including day-trips to the world-renowned Winelands and the breathtaking Western cape. Charts, maps, and color photographs throughout make this an indispensable guide to a stunningly beautiful, world-class city.
Download or read book Uncorking the Past written by Patrick E. McGovern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lively gastronomical tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating search for booze. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, brings us up to date on what we now know about the creation and history of alcohol, and the role of alcohol in society across cultures. Along the way, he integrates studies in food and sociology to explore a provocative hypothesis about the integral role that spirits have played in human evolution. We discover, for example, that the cereal staples of the modern world were probably domesticated in agrarian societies for their potential in fermenting large quantities of alcoholic beverages. These include the delectable rice wines of China and Japan, the corn beers of the Americas, and the millet and sorghum drinks of Africa. Humans also learned how to make mead from honey and wine from exotic fruits of all kinds: even from the sweet pulp of the cacao (chocolate) fruit in the New World. The perfect drink, it turns out-whether it be mind-altering, medicinal, a religious symbol, liquid courage, or artistic inspiration-has not only been a profound force in history, but may be fundamental to the human condition itself. This coffee table book will sate the curiosity of any armchair historian interested in the long history of food and wine.
Download or read book Wine written by Hugh Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate understanding of the world of wine filtered through the vast knowledge and experience of the recognised world expert, this book addresses every aspect of the world of wine.
Download or read book Unquenchable written by Natalie MacLean and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We wine writers tend to be obsessive souls. How else can a person stay fascinated throughout a career with just one drink? Compare us to food writers: Over their lives, they'll encounter thousands of ingredients and ways of combining and cooking them. Wine, by contrast, is just fermented grapes. But it engages our primary senses-smell, taste, feel-in a way that is both hedonistic and cerebral. That's why I've spent the past several years traipsing around the world, visiting wineries, tasting their offerings, and searching for the world's best cheap wines. The narrative is as familiar as Arthur's quest for the grail and as naive as Dr. Seuss's plaintive search for the affirmative in Are You My Mother? With her signature conversational style, Natalie MacLean takes you on a whirlwind journey through the world of wine, searching for great taste at a low cost. By turns confessional-with guilty admissions from a penny-pincher who loves simple pleasures-and spirited, Unquenchable is informed by MacLean's decade-long career as an award-winning wine writer. In this engaging and enlightening book, MacLean recounts her adventures with the most passionate personalities in some of the most gorgeous, off-beat places in the world-from the crazed vintner who explains his philosophy while speeding down the Autobahn to the Sicilian winemakers you don't want to disappoint with your tasting notes. Yet there's plenty to take away from her inspired recommendations for food pairing to lists of favorite value wines and vintners, plus plenty of pointers that will enhance your own drinking pleasure.
Download or read book Around the World in Eighty Wines written by Mike Veseth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, celebrated editor-in-chief of The Wine Economist Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines. The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg’s home base, and follows Fogg’s itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so each of the eighty wines must tell an important tale. We head back across Northern Africa to Algeria, once the world’s leading wine exporter, before hopping across the sea to Spain and Portugal. We follow Portuguese trade routes to Madeira and then South Africa with a short detour to taste Kenya’s most famous Pinot Noir. Kenya? Pinot Noir? Really! The route loops around, visiting Bali, Thailand, and India before heading north to China to visit Shangri-La. Shangri-La? Does that even exist? It does, and there is wine there. Then it is off to Australia, with a detour in Tasmania, which is so cool that it is hot. The stars of the Southern Cross (and the title of a familiar song) guide us to New Zealand, Chile, and Argentina. We ride a wine train in California and rendezvous with Planet Riesling in Seattle before getting into fast cars for a race across North America, collecting more wine as we go. Pause for lunch in Virginia to honor Thomas Jefferson, then it’s time to jet back to London to tally our wines and see what we have learned. Why these particular places? What are the eighty wines and what do they reveal? And what is the surprise plot twist that guarantees a happy ending for every wine lover? Come with us on a journey of discovery that will inspire, inform, and entertain anyone who loves travel, adventure, or wine.
Download or read book Food Lit written by Melissa Brackney Stoeger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential tool for assisting leisure readers interested in topics surrounding food, this unique book contains annotations and read-alikes for hundreds of nonfiction titles about the joys of comestibles and cooking. Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction provides a much-needed resource for librarians assisting adult readers interested in the topic of food—a group that is continuing to grow rapidly. Containing annotations of hundreds of nonfiction titles about food that are arranged into genre and subject interest categories for easy reference, the book addresses a diversity of reading experiences by covering everything from foodie memoirs and histories of food to extreme cuisine and food exposés. Author Melissa Stoeger has organized and described hundreds of nonfiction titles centered on the themes of food and eating, including life stories, history, science, and investigative nonfiction. The work emphasizes titles published in the past decade without overlooking significant benchmark and classic titles. It also provides lists of suggested read-alikes for those titles, and includes several helpful appendices of fiction titles featuring food, food magazines, and food blogs.
Download or read book The University Wine Course written by Marian W. Baldy, Ph.D. and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How and why to Build a Wine Cellar written by Richard M. Gold and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular classic, which is based on the author's personal experiences of building a wine cellar in his home and collecting wines for fun and investment, is now completely updated for the modern wine collector. All of the essential construction specifications to maintain the ideal temperature and humidity conditions for long-term storage of wine are provided for the home craftsman or professional contractor. Insulation, refrigeration, and passive systems are detailed and the construction of racks and storage bins is also explained with helpful illustrations. A practical guide to selecting, recording, tracking, and enjoying your wines at their peak performance is included.
Download or read book A Guide to the Elite Estates of the Mosel Saar Ruwer Wine Region written by Rudi Wiest and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Wine Lover s Cookbook written by Malcolm Hébert and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This kitchen companion features the top 100 award-winning recipes from the Wine Institute's National Cooking with Wine Contest. They range From Artichoke Appetizer with Wine and Cold Apricot Soup to Limehouse Chicken and Pumpkin Beef Stew, these recipes were culled from more than 2,800 submissions, and featured recipe was screened and tested in order to provides readers with the most unique and reliable eating options. An in-depth chapter on California wine, a wine and food chart, and cooking with wine tips are also included.
Download or read book Making Sense of Wine Tasting written by ISBN:978-1-891267-03-1 and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blood of the Colony written by Owen White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of the wine industry’s role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire. “We owe to wine a blessing far more precious than gold: the peopling of Algeria with Frenchmen,” stated agriculturist Pierre Berthault in the early 1930s. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, Europeans had displaced Algerians from the colony’s best agricultural land and planted grapevines. Soon enough, wine was the primary export of a region whose mostly Muslim inhabitants didn’t drink alcohol. Settlers made fortunes while drawing large numbers of Algerians into salaried work for the first time. But the success of Algerian wine resulted in friction with French producers, challenging the traditional view that imperial possessions should complement, not compete with, the metropole. By the middle of the twentieth century, amid the fight for independence, Algerians had come to see the rows of vines as an especially hated symbol of French domination. After the war, Algerians had to decide how far they would go to undo the transformations the colonists had wrought—including the world’s fourth-biggest wine industry. Owen White examines Algeria’s experiment with nationalized wine production in worker-run vineyards, the pressures that resulted in the failure of that experiment, and the eventual uprooting of most of the country’s vines. With a special focus on individual experiences of empire, from the wealthiest Europeans to the poorest laborers in the fields, The Blood of the Colony shows the central role of wine in the economic life of French Algeria and in its settler culture. White makes clear that the industry left a long-term mark on the development of the nation.
Download or read book Grape Man of Texas written by Roy Renfro and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grape Man of Texas is the first biography of Thomas Volney Munson (1843-1913), the internationally recognized horticulturist who developed over 300 new varieties of grapes, some of which are still grown today on almost every continent. He is perhaps best known for his work in fighting the phylloxera epidemic of the late nineteenth century, which nearly destroyed the world's vineyards. His solution—grafting vinifera onto certain resistant native rootstocks from Texas—earned him the Chevalier du Merite Agricole in the French Legion of Honor and numerous accolades. This second edition introduces new insights into the phylloxera period, Munson's many papers and publications, and his far-sighted grasp of the needs of twentieth century agriculture and transportation. It details the continuing influence of both his research and his hybrid grapes on modern viticulture and new varieties of vitis that have been bred from them around the world.
Download or read book Getting Started with DuckDB written by Simon Aubury and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyze and transform data efficiently with DuckDB, a versatile, modern, in-process SQL database Key Features Use DuckDB to rapidly load, transform, and query data across a range of sources and formats Gain practical experience using SQL, Python, and R to effectively analyze data Learn how open source tools and cloud services in the broader data ecosystem complement DuckDB’s versatile capabilities Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionDuckDB is a fast in-process analytical database. Its ease of use, versatile feature set, and powerful analytical capabilities make DuckDB a valuable addition to the data practitioner’s toolkit. Getting Started with DuckDB offers a practical overview of DuckDB’s fundamentals and guidance for effectively using its powerful capabilities. Through extensive hands-on examples, you’ll learn how to use DuckDB to load, transform, and query a variety of data sources and formats, including CSV, JSON, and Parquet files, semi-structured data, remotely-hosted files, and external databases. You'll also find out how to leverage DuckDB's performance optimizations and friendly SQL enhancements. You'll explore how to use DuckDB’s extensions for specialized applications, such as geospatial analysis and text search over document collections. In addition to working through examples in SQL, Python, and R, you’ll also dive into using DuckDB for analyzing public datasets and discover the wider ecosystem of open-source tools and cloud services that supercharge DuckDB-powered workflows and applications. Whether you’re a seasoned data practitioner or new to working with analytical data, this book will rapidly get you up to speed with DuckDB’s versatile and powerful capabilities, enabling you to apply them in your analytical workflows and projects.What you will learn Understand the properties and applications of a columnar in-process database Use SQL to load, transform, and query a range of data formats Discover DuckDB's rich extensions and learn how to apply them Use nested data types to model semi-structured data and extract and model JSON data Integrate DuckDB into your Python and R analytical workflows Effectively leverage DuckDB's convenient SQL enhancements Explore the wider ecosystem and pathways for building DuckDB-powered data applications Who this book is for If you’re interested in expanding your analytical toolkit, this book is for you. It will be particularly valuable for data analysts wanting to rapidly explore and query complex data, data and software engineers looking for a lean and versatile data processing tool, along with data scientists needing a scalable data manipulation library that integrates seamlessly with Python and R. You will get the most from this book if you have some familiarity with SQL and foundational database concepts, as well as exposure to a programming language such as Python or R.
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Wine written by Julia Harding MW and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 2734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to know more in order to increase their enjoyment of this endlessly fascinating liquid, and those who are intent on studying wine, professionally or privately. This is a huge treasure trove of knowledge, for the first time breaking the barrier of one million words, but the alphabetical format and the links between the entries make it easily navigable, and the language, while not shying away from complex science, is intended to open the door to every curious reader looking for answers on every question they have ever wanted to ask about wine.
Download or read book Adventures in Africa Under the British Belgian and Portuguese Flags written by John Bensley Thornhill and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
