Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink written by Ned Halley and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a slack-ma-girdle? Or a submarino? How did White Horse whisky get its name? Or Old Bawdy barley wine? How do you make a really dry martini? Or beer? Or champagne? The answers to these enquiries and thousands of others are revealed in this unique guide to every kind of alcohol, compiled by dedicated drinker and collector of little histories, Ned Halley, who is an award-winning writer on beer, a nationally syndicated wine columnist and author of numerous books on drink. In a straightforward A to Z format, 'The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink' identifies thousands of individual brewers, distillers and winemakers, as well as the names of their products. The dictionary aims to be of real, practical help in locating beers and ciders, wines and spirits of every hue to their maker and place of origin. Here, too, are descriptive terms used on labels, along with the less-formal words used by producers and purveyors to promote their products in the market place. Origins, from village breweries to entire wine-producing regions, are located by nation, province and district. In many cases, there is a mention of when a producer or product was established, perhaps a word about the founder or a brief explanation of a curious-sounding brand name. The book is laced with historical anecdotes, a thousand cocktail recipes, essays on topics from the Guiness dynasty to the principles of brewing, from the discovery of distilling to the history of excise duty - and illustrated with hundreds of drink labels from all around the world.
Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations written by Connie Robertson and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotations have exercised a particular fascination for humanity since the birth of recorded language and their potency in the age of the soundbite is stronger than ever. We revel in quotations, compete to know them, love them, hate them and inscribe them in books and on buildings, and this freshly revised and updated dictionary includes a wealth of new material among its 13,000 familiar, serious, outrageous, witty and thought-provoking entries.The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations is an essential work of reference for every writer, journalist and speech-maker, as well as being a treasure-trove for the browser and the simply curious. From the Roman poet Ovid's observation that 'Judgement of beauty can er, what with the wine and the dark' to Oscar Wilde's that 'Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes', there is a wide diversity of sayings to add spice to our conversation and enrich our daily lives. The book is alphabetically arranged by author and indexed by keyword for ease of use.
Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Culinary Menu Terms written by and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wordsworth Dictionary of Culinary & Menu Terms contains over 12,000 entries and should prove useful to budding chefs and gourmands, fascinating to browsers and crossword enthusiasts, and a handy companion for hungry travellers or those wishing to avoid the potential pitfalls of self-catering and ordering meals in restaurants in foreign lands. In short, this book is essential reading for those who want to know the difference between chiorro, chiozzo, choko and chorizo, or who cannot tell a kaboucha from a kabanosi. Rodney Dale has assembled and arranged a rich diet of terms used for ingredients and recipes which are encountered in cuisine world-wide. This pabular vocabulary will be eagerly embraced by all those interested in and engaged in food and its preparation from whatever culture and tradition they may come.
Download or read book Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.
Download or read book The Dictionary of Drink written by Graham Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drinking Occasions written by Dwight B. Heath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of this book is to describe the variety of drinking occasions that exist around the world, primarily in modern, industrialized countries. As such, it celebrates the diversity of normal drinking behavior and illustrates a wide range of beneficial drinking patterns. Attention is also paid to the relations between drink and culture that prevail in non-Western societies and in developing countries. The aims of the book are twofold: to deal directly with the challenge of how to define responsible drinking in the face of the world's many different drinking styles, and to portray the many ways in which people have thought about or used alcohol as an integral part of their culture
Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms written by C. M. Schwarz (ed) and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1993 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has more than 600 phrases, sayings, and expressions and contains explanations.
Download or read book The Dictionary of Drink and Drinking written by Oscar Adolf Mendelsohn and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase Fable written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms written by Martin H. Manser and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary aims to help users to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but is also useful as a general word reference. Special features include: an alphabetical A-Z listing; numbered senses for words with more than one meaning; British and American variants; and specially marked colloquial uses.
Download or read book Food and Drink Idioms in English written by Laura Pinnavaia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idioms carry an aura of mystery for all speakers, owing to the discrepancy between their literal and non-literal meanings. This book clears up some of these ambiguities, by examining a series of expressions that have derived from the most instinctive and essential of all human behaviour: eating and drinking. The quantity and quality of 276 food and drink idioms are explored, investigating two hundred and fifty years of English monolingual lexicography and forty years of usage as attested by contemporary linguistic corpora. The examination of these idioms’ syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, historical, social and cultural characteristics will foster in speakers a whole new approach to idiom comprehension and usage, and will constitute thought-provoking ground for further research in other idiom domains.
Download or read book Boozy Brunch written by Peter Joseph and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Boozy Brunch,you have your pick of more than one hundred eye-opening drink recipes and twenty-five food pairings, with entertaining drink histories and liquor-laden quotes from the famous and infamous. The first book of its kind, Boozy Brunch offers brunchy alternatives and revved-up variations to the classic set of champagne-, coffee-, tea-, and fruit or vegetable juice-based cocktails that will help you make the most of your brunch. Plus, you’ll find a set of hangover cures for those still recovering from the night before.
Download or read book The Dictionary of Drink written by Graham Edwards and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnum opus for anyone interested in drink, with over 57, 000 entries, in an easy access A-Z format.
Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations written by G. F. Lamb and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of Drink and Drinking written by Oscar Adolf Mendelsohn and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of Drink written by Oscar Adolf Mendelsohn and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Definitive Drink Dictionary written by Walter Hoving and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains over 6000 drink concoctions collected in over five hundred cities, towns, little hamlets and many villages in over fifty countries and all of the fifty states. That is almost three times the number of recipes in any other drink book that has been published up to this time. The drink recipes and other bits of information and humor were collected over a period of fifty-two years of traveling, dining, drinking and working in the Hotel and Restaurant industry. Most of the recipes were told to me by bartenders, wine stewards, wine producers, distillery managers, liquor salesmen, brew masters and drinking folk that I met in my travels, including a "white lightning" entrepreneur. Throughout this book there are hundreds of jokes, quotes, toasts, quips, statements, recommended name brand alcoholic delights, ways to make your own, serious and amusing anecdotes and philosophies by famous and infamous people that I have collected in my travels or enjoyed over a cocktail in some distant oasis. I have tried to give proper credit, where credit is due; but for those that I can find no origin, I simply call them "Trixieism's" You be the judge."
