The Deluxe Savoy Cocktail Book
The Unabridged Classic--Updated & Expanded First published in London in the 1930s while the US was still in Prohibition, The Savoy Cocktail Book continues to set the standard for mixology excellence. This enhanced edition from Echo Point Publishing shares those ideals, and goes one step further by encouraging aspiring mixologists to add new creations to their lists.Harry Craddock was the bartender's bartender who served the distinguished clientele of London's elegant Savoy Hotel. The legendary mixologist captured the spirit of the times in this thoroughly delightful collection of over 750 cocktail recipes. Craddock is credited with popularizing many familiar classic drinks, including several that he invented himself, most notably the White Lady and the Corpse Reviver#2. This enhanced edition includes important extras from experienced mixologist Will Bissonnette on the topics of: The well-stocked home bar;Cocktail philosophy, or how to design and mix your own original creations;Glossary of ingredients-the original Savoy had an impressive beverage list, several of which are now rare or impossible to find, so included is a list of suitable substitutes;Glossary of measures.Period Art Deco design throughout the book reflects the elegance of the 1930s. Readers will recognize many of the drinks-still popular today-and rediscover many more classics worthy of reviving. The Savoy Cocktail Book has been a staple for bartenders the world over for many decades and is a must for beverage connoisseurs and everyone wishing to learn the art of mixing the perfect libation.This book is also available from Echo Point Books in paperback (ISBN 1648372139).
For the Love of Coconuts - Kerala Cuisine, Obviously
This book is the result of the author's absolute love for good food. Her exposure to the multiple cuisines of the land has influenced the recipes that have been documented in this book. Most of the recipes are everyday dishes made at her home. The book also features some fusion desserts created by the author that add some zing to the traditional sweets.Hope you try the recipes and enjoy them too.Sherin Mammen completed her masters in MA in English Literature from Utkal University And a PG Diploma in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. After brief stints in teaching, journalism, advertising and e-learning, she has now settled as a food blogger, recipe developer and home chef. Sherin has published several articles on education, lifestyle, careers and food for mainstream newspapers and websites."If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J.R.R. Tolkien
Betty Crocker 20 Best Gluten-Free Dessert Recipes
Bring Back Dessert with Gluten-Free RecipesPhoto of Every RecipeEating gluten free can be a challenge, but with these easy recipes, it's a snap! Bake up Chocolate Cake with Praline topping or Vanilla Cupcakes with Caramel Sea-Salt Frosting. Enjoy the fruits of the season with Apple Pie and Easy Strawberry Pie, or make the kids happy with Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Pie.With these desserts, eating gluten free is simple and delicious.
Betty Crocker 20 Best Summer Drink Recipes
Enjoy Sumer Sipping with Refreshing DrinksPhoto of Every RecipeSummer and the sound of ice cubes clinking just go together, and the cool drinks here are perfect all through the warm months. Serve Frosty Iced Caramel Capuccino and Lemon-Ginger Tingler on a hot day; enjoy breakfast in a glass with Super-Athlete Spinach Smoothies or a Peanut Butter-Banana Smoothie. And come cocktail hour, whip up a Thai-Basil Mojitarita or a pitcher of White Wine Sangria. You'll find the best summer beverages right here.
Betty Crocker 20 Best Snack Mix Recipes
Mix It Up with Fresh Ideas!Photo of Every RecipeIn a snack mix rut? Betty Crocker has the answer with 20 lively choices to brighten up parties, lunch boxes, and everyday snacking. Change up your favorite Original Chex Party Mix with Hiker's Trail Chex Mix and Chex Moroccan Crunch; branch out with Hearty Munch Mix and Oven Caramel Corn. You'll love snacking your way through these fun new recipes.
Granny Anne’s Most Loved Dessert Recipes
In a busy, modern age it's an easy option to purchase your dinner-time treats ready-made from the supermarket. But there is an easy and proven way to really impress your family - prepare simple and delicious old-time desserts by hand. And you will save money. Mum loved to cook. These dessert recipes are the ones she made for us and her grandchildren - our favourites.
Absolute Corkers
A wonderfully humorous collection of the lies and legends of the wine world.Is it naff to take a bottle of wine to a dinner party? Are red wine and cheese really a match? Should you stick to the house plonk in restaurants? What's so funny about wine? Is it the fact that we take it so seriously?Ned Halley's affectionately irreverent wine jaunt unearths some of the quaint histories and dark secrets of many of the world's most famous wines. Instead of lordly suggestions for the cellar, here is vulgar advice on investing in wine for profit.Wine and health also comes under the spotlight: is it good for us or bad for us? And then there's wine criticism: are writers who tell you what to drink, and what not to drink, simply insane? There's a look, too, at wine marketing: are the biggest-selling brands as good as the hype?
The Beginner’s Guide to Cake Decorating
Learn the basics of decorating cakes with this super-simple guide for beginners Decorating your own cakes is both fun and easy with cake maven Autumn Carpenter at your side. In The Beginner's Guide to Cake Decorating, adapted from her best-selling First Time Cake Decorating, you'll learn everything about the basic tools you will need, hacks to make cake decorating easy, and how to plan and design your own cake style. This book is the only basic primer you will need to get started. Other books on cake decorating are often overwhelming, offering unattainable expert-level ideas and complicated instructions, but The Beginner's Guide to Cake Decorating sticks to the basics so you get the results you want. You will be able to decorate cakes for any occasion, from baby showers to birthdays. With fuss-free instructions and no-fail results, you will not only impress your friends and family, but yourself too! This accessible, easy-to-follow cake decorating reference features: All the information you need to get started--The book includes essential equipment and tools; recipes for cakes, fillings, frostings, icings, and fondants; introductory techniques; and hacks and shortcuts to make everything easier. A variety of methods and styles--Choose from a wide range of techniques, including piping, molding, hand modeling, stencils, and more, and styles from flowers to banners and ribbons to letters. Crystal-clear instructions--Photographic step-by-step projects will help you learn the basics so you can customize your own designs successfully. The best place to start your cake customizing exploration is this all-in-one beginner's guide from one of cake decorating's best teachers!
Home Bar
With over 60 cocktails to shake, muddle and stir, Home Bar features the favorite boozy recipes of drinks expert and TV host Andy Clarke alongside colorful commentary on how to host a festive soiree at home.From basement bars to man caves and backyard tiki huts, the home bar has been a beloved, boozy playground for nearly 75 years. While the heyday of home bars arose in the US after World War II, these days the global pandemic has led us all to invest heavily in our homes and reluctant to mingle with randoms. What better way to entertain than by having friends over for a few drinks!According to Instagram, today's home bar is an upmarket concept featuring a trolley, some swanky ice cubes, homemade syrups, and reassuringly overpriced bottle of spirits. Sounds time-consuming, but help is at hand! Inside Home Bar, food and drink connoisseur Andy Clarke reveals his top tips on fuss-free entertaining and how to curate the essential kit - from swizzle sticks to spirits, glasses to mixers, and so much more. His recipes will include classic favorites, batch tipples to save time, mocktails as well as his own boozy inventions, guaranteed to get the party started.
Wine
Wine: An Introduction for Americans by M. A. Amerine and V. L. Singleton brings clarity and authority to a subject too often obscured by romance, mysticism, or narrow focus. While countless books promise to guide the novice drinker, many either entertain without informing, intimidate with arbitrary rules, or drown the reader in technical detail. Amerine and Singleton--two of the most respected figures in American enology--set out to provide what had long been missing: a comprehensive, factual, and accessible introduction to wine written from an American perspective. Their aim is not to prescribe rigid dogma but to explain principles, correct misconceptions, and open the world of wine to informed enjoyment. With particular attention to U.S. production practices and California's central role--responsible for nearly 90 percent of American wine--this book situates American readers within their own marketplace while also surveying the global traditions that give wine its richness. Technical explanations are balanced with cultural context, enabling readers to understand not only how wine is made but also how it is used and appreciated. The authors emphasize facts where available and considered judgments where necessary, while offering carefully selected references for those who wish to explore further. Wine: An Introduction for Americans remains a landmark text: a clear, reliable, and inviting guide that demystifies wine and empowers readers to approach the subject with both confidence and curiosity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Tasty Latest and Greatest
Hundreds recipes to help you master the cooking basics, hack the pantry, and make everything from vegetarian go-tos to crowd-pleasing snacks to irresistible desserts. Tasty Latest and Greatest is THE must-have companion for home cooks of all skill levels-whether you're a sometimes cook or a master meal prepper. With hundreds recipes, clever hacks, and must-know techniques, this cookbook will teach you how to kill it in the kitchen. In no time at all, you'll be poaching like a pro, searing perfectly tender steaks, chopping veggies at warp speed, and frosting cakes. Beyond knockout cheese pulls, slow-cooked stunners, vegetarian go-tos, meals for meat-lovers, and insanely good sweets, discover large-scale showstoppers. With Tasty Latest and Greatest in your kitchen, there is no meal-big or small-you can't conquer.
Honey Wines and Beers
When amateur wine making was at it's height Clara Furness penned these pages. A long series of articles appeared in the British Bee Journal, and many Beekeepers' and Winemakers' Associations in the South will remember her demonstrations and talks.​​ A handbook which encourages all beekeepers to see mead making as a natural consequence of keeping bees.
Granny Anne’s Most Loved Dessert Recipes
In a busy, modern age it's an easy option to purchase your dinner-time treats ready-made from the supermarket. But there is an easy and proven way to really impress your family - prepare simple and delicious old-time desserts by hand. And you will save money. Mum loved to cook. These dessert recipes are the ones she made for us and her grandchildren - our favourites.
Wine
Wine: An Introduction for Americans by M. A. Amerine and V. L. Singleton brings clarity and authority to a subject too often obscured by romance, mysticism, or narrow focus. While countless books promise to guide the novice drinker, many either entertain without informing, intimidate with arbitrary rules, or drown the reader in technical detail. Amerine and Singleton--two of the most respected figures in American enology--set out to provide what had long been missing: a comprehensive, factual, and accessible introduction to wine written from an American perspective. Their aim is not to prescribe rigid dogma but to explain principles, correct misconceptions, and open the world of wine to informed enjoyment. With particular attention to U.S. production practices and California's central role--responsible for nearly 90 percent of American wine--this book situates American readers within their own marketplace while also surveying the global traditions that give wine its richness. Technical explanations are balanced with cultural context, enabling readers to understand not only how wine is made but also how it is used and appreciated. The authors emphasize facts where available and considered judgments where necessary, while offering carefully selected references for those who wish to explore further. Wine: An Introduction for Americans remains a landmark text: a clear, reliable, and inviting guide that demystifies wine and empowers readers to approach the subject with both confidence and curiosity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Drinkable Healing Herbal Infusions
Harness the healing power of plants Herbs possess powerful medicinal properties--and they are all around us. You can find plants in your own garden or local grocery store that calm nerves or fight infections. This guide shows you how to tap into this healing power through the process of herbal infusion. Learn how to use herbs to brew teas, syrups, honeys, and tinctures that can boost your health--and taste great. What sets this book of herbal healing infusions apart from the rest: All about herbalism--Dive into the world of natural healing as you explore the most commonly used herbs, where to get them, and how they can help you heal. Get enthused to infuse--Brew everything from teas to tonics with simple instructions for every step of the infusion process--including serving suggestions for enjoying your drinks. 100 home remedies--Promote heart health, boost brainpower, and improve your mood with recipes for healing every part of you. Embrace natural healing and become a home herbalist with help from this standout guide.
The Beginner’s Guide to Candy Making
This super-simple guide to making candy features photo-illustrated step-by-step instructions and techniques for creating all kinds of yummy sweets. Making your own homemade candy may sound complicated, but it's easy and fun! Candy making in your home kitchen allows creative exploration that requires no experience and very little equipment, and the results can be used as inexpensive gifts or festive desserts for a range of occasions. The Beginner's Guide to Candy Making, adapted from The Sweet Book of Candy Making, offers an easy approach, basic recipes that everyone will enjoy, and creative hacks that will make candy making easier than ever. Even the most inexperienced cooks and bakers can learn to make their favorite candies for their favorite people. Inside, you'll find: Candy-making basics, including equipment, simple ingredients, techniques, and candy hacks that cover lessons on pulling taffy, rolling truffles, filling peanut butter cups, and much more Amazing no-fuss recipes for hard candies, chewy caramels, tasty toffees, melt-in-your-mouth fudge, decadent truffles, chocolates, marshmallows, and nut candies to name a few Hacks and quick fix tips for fixing candy batch's gone awry Perfect classics from Penuche Fudge to Lollipops Novel flavor combinations to try, such as Pistachio Marzipan Squares, Passion Fruit Marshmallows, Mango-Macadamia Nut Caramels, Lemon Meringue Lollipops, and more Ideas for gifting and decorating are included to make your candy gifts the talk of the neighborhood.
Rum Cocktails
Rum is the secret ingredient that will add dazzling taste to any recipe. Discover the endless possibilities of cooking with rum with this awesome cookbook. From savory starters to the rich main course, and dazzling desserts, you will have lots to choose from. These rum recipes in this book are the outcome of many years' worth of research, testing, and recording. Each of us has our own preference, so the rum drink recipes may not appeal to all, but I think a majority will appreciate it. Preparing a rum drink doesn't call for any skill and no fixed recipe is followed, so this activity suits anyone. All you need is a recipe that you can customize according to your taste, like adding your favorite ingredients and reducing or omitting those you dislike. It's that simple! I hope this will serve as your source of energy when you're exhausted and your trusty companion in concocting your own drinks in the kitchen. Be quick and grab your cookbook today!Grab your copy now!
The Tea Recipe Book
Take tea time to the next level with this delightful tea recipe bookTea just might be the perfect beverage. There's always a type or blend to fit your mood, whether you want to curl up with a hot cup of Earl Grey or cool off with an Iced Peach White Tea. With this teas book in your collection, you can celebrate the diversity of flavors as you learn how to make an array of tea drinks and tea-infused snacks.Give the perfect tea gift for tea lovers with: Brewing basics--Learn all about infusions, decoctions, making concentrates, and more as you delve into the fundamentals of optimal tea brewing.Herbal recipes and more --Indulge in 50 recipes ranging from a piping hot mug of Chocolate Chai to a refreshing glass of Thai Bubble Tea, plus some teatime treats to go with them!The ideal cup--Prepare any tea to perfection with tips on temperature, steep time, and using just the right amount of leaves for each drink.Prepare specialty tea drinks at home with the book of tea that makes each pot perfect.
Great Scoops
Ice cream really does make everything better. Compiled with love by the team at The Merry Dairy, Great Scoops features a cheerful collection of 80 easy, custard-style and vegan ice creams and delectable desserts. From hibiscus & passion fruit and bourbon black cherry to triple chocolate and caramel popcorn, this exciting new cookbook also includes recipes for signature sauces, toppings, and baked goods (say hello to chocolate chip cookies and meringue kisses). Best of all, the ice creams are nut-free, sesame-free, (and some even gluten-free). What can we say? This is good mood food at its best.And for those who are new to ice cream making, have no fear: the book includes a chapter covering everything there is to know about making both dairy and vegan ice creams and frozen desserts at home.Great Scoops is a captivating cookbook about artisanal ice cream, the people who craft it and the community that loves them for it. The delightful selection of classic and whimsical flavors reminds us that delicious homemade ice creams can be made year-round and, more importantly, that you're never too old (and it's never too cold) to enjoy a heartfelt scoop.
Booze & Vinyl Vol. 2
A follow-up to the bestselling listening party guide, Booze & Vinyl, this is an all-new collection of groundbreaking music paired with mood-setting cocktails. Get set to party with 70 great records--organized by theme, from Rockin' to Beats, Mellow to Jazzy & Bluesy--spanning the 1950s to today. Each entry features liner notes on the album and two accompanying boozy beverage recipes that complement the music. Among the featured albums are: Are You Experienced? (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), Toys in the Attic (Aerosmith), Synchronicity (The Police), Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morisette), The B52s (The B52s ), Gipsy Kings (The Gipsy Kings), Violator (Depeche Mode), Ready to Die (The Notorious B.I.G.), Play (Moby), Lemonade (Beyonc矇), Coat of Many Colors (Dolly Parton), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John), So (Peter Gabriel), Whitney Houston (Whitney Houston), Oops!...I Did it Again (Britney Spears), Getz/Gilberto (Stan Getz and Jo瓊o Gilberto), A Love Supreme (John Coltrane).
Life is the Bubbles
Jeff and Mike, better known as the social media sensations, the Sparkling Winos, present their first book, Life is the Bubbles: An Effervescent Guide to Sparkling Wine. Just like this dynamic duo's captivating Instagram feed, the book is a bold, brash and colourful guide to all things sparkling. Presented in two parts, the book opens with fundamentals that will help you "find your sparkle" and identify your preferred sparkling wine style. This well-rounded guide is complete with food pairings (including some non-traditional favourites), unique cocktail recipes, and the Sparkling Winos' fool-proof Sabrage method. Fasten your seatbelts for the second half of the book. It's a whirlwind tour around the sparkling world, pausing long enough to dive deep into top-producing regions. This highly visual and lighthearted guide is the perfect companion for all wine lovers, whether you're just starting your wine journey or you're well on your way. Life is the Bubbles is everything you need to appreciate sparkling wine - just add bubbles!
Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake
*Recipient of the James Beard Media Award - Claiming the title of best book in the "Beverage without Recipes" category**Top 10 Nominee of the Spirited Award from the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation* This stunning guide invites you into the story of sake--an ancient beverage finding its way in a modern world. Whether you're a sake novice or an experienced connoisseur, Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake offers fascinating insights, practical tips, and rich stories about this popular beverage. Authors and experts Nancy Matsumoto and Michael Tremblay personally undertook the challenge of visiting 35 artisanal sake breweries in Japan, the US, and Canada to interview makers and document every stage of the sake brewing process. Nancy's celebrated journalistic background combined with Michael's sake sommelier experience have led to an engaging and informative look at the world of sake. With over 300 color photos and a lively narrative, this fascinating book provides: A comprehensive introduction to the science and history of sake brewing in JapanA look at how fine craft sakes are brewed today using traditional methods and no additives--only rice, water, koji, and yeastHistories of Japan's venerable breweries, some of them over 300 years old! An answer to why some breweries are able to turn out a superior quality of sakeA discussion of rice varieties and the contentious topic of terroir in the context of sake making.Current trends in the world of sake, including the fine sakes now brewed outside JapanTasting notes and recommendations for top craft sakes you have not heard about yetThis book also includes personal recipes from several top Japanese sake-brewing families along with food-pairing tips and a chapter on the authors' own Japanese sake-bar-going adventures.
Layer Up!
Layer it on. Layer it in. Level it up! In her newest book, beloved celebrity cake master Yolanda Gampp teaches you how to level UP your cakes by layering IN explosive flavors and delicious desserts. In this ultimate glow-up guide for cakes, How to Cake It and Crime Scene Kitchen star Yolanda Gampp plays with flavor profiles and shares twenty-one "stuffed-cake" recipes (plus seventy-two delicious stand-alone desserts, toppings, and buttercreams) to help you level up your cake game and prove that it really is what's inside that counts. Talk About a Surprise Inside. Sprinkles spilling out of cakes? That's great but your fave ooey gooey desserts, bursting out of cakes? YES!! You can expect an explosion of flavor (and actual desserts!) in every stuffed-cake recipe thoughtfully developed and rigorously tested by Yo herself. Layers on Layers of Flavor. Modern caking is all about layering! Each stuffed, "dessert-inside" cake recipe will also include recipes for other stand-alone desserts, such as key lime pie or cheesecake, that get sandwiched between or placed on top of delicious classic cake layers. Stylish Cakes, Flavor First. The outside of these mouth-watering, fondant-free layered cakes are aesthetically aspirational and insta-worthy; however, the primary focus of these recipes is indulgent flavor profiles. Big on Baking, Short on Time? Don't have time to make a layered cake? No problem! The stand-alone dessert and cake recipes included in each stuffed cake recipe can be used on their own.
What's for Dessert
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A love letter to dessert by the New York Times bestselling author of Dessert Person ONE OF THE TEN BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Simply RecipesONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Bon App矇tit, Vice, Saveur, Mother Jones "Whether you're into flamb矇s, souffl矇s, or simple loaf cakes this book offers over 100 different answers to that all-important question: What's for dessert?"--Claire Saffitz Claire Saffitz returns with 100 recipes for all dessert people--whether you're into impressive-yet-easy molten lava cakes, comforting rice pudding, or decadent chestnut brownies. In this all-new collection, Claire shares recipes for icebox cakes, pies, cobblers, custards, cookies and more, all crafted to be as streamlined as possible. (No stand mixer? No problem! You won't need one.) To keep the recipes straightforward and simple, Claire makes sure each recipe is extra efficient, whether you're making a Whipped Tres Leches Cake with Hazelnuts or Caramel Peanut Popcorn Bars. Fans will find all the warmth, encouragement, and deliciously foolproof recipes with loads of troubleshooting advice that they've come to count on from Claire.
Chin Chin
Ever brought alcohol back from holiday, only to realise it doesn't taste the same? Or have you got a growing collection of gifted spirits that you have no idea what to do with?Have no fear, 'Chin Chin' is here.No ordinary cookbook, 'Chin Chin' will bring a splash of fun to your cooking, with an A-Z of alcoholic recipes.Forget fancy gadgets and specialist tools - these mouthwatering recipes are practical and easy - perfect if you want a little inspiration for everyday dishes or party pieces. But they also let you be creative: cooking is about personal expression after all.And - to make this even better - there's even a cheeky cocktail with each recipe, so you can reward your culinary creativity with a tasty tipple!So get into the spirit and enjoy yourself.Chin Chin!
Sandra's Wine Life
Learn to Achieve A WINE LIFE That's Perfect for YOU!SANDRA'S WINE LIFE is a consummate guide to the world of wine and offers fabulous, sip-worthy suggestions to turn year-round entertaining into memorable events. Summer barbecue? Winter apr癡s ski party? Holiday party with a need to impress? With Sandra's natural, engaging style, she leads beginners and wine connoisseurs through the seasons, sharing ideal wine choices, tasty recipes for perfect wine-pairing, and notable tips to make every event-even a romantic dinner for two-truly special. She also includes intriguing wine histories for great party conversation. With carefully selected information presented in a casual, fun format, this is the book to help readers find a wonderful WINE LIFE of their own!
Sandra's Wine Life
Learn to Achieve A WINE LIFE That's Perfect for YOU!SANDRA'S WINE LIFE is a consummate guide to the world of wine and offers fabulous, sip-worthy suggestions to turn year-round entertaining into memorable events. Summer barbecue? Winter apr癡s ski party? Holiday party with a need to impress? With Sandra's natural, engaging style, she leads beginners and wine connoisseurs through the seasons, sharing ideal wine choices, tasty recipes for perfect wine-pairing, and notable tips to make every event-even a romantic dinner for two-truly special. She also includes intriguing wine histories for great party conversation. With carefully selected information presented in a casual, fun format, this is the book to help readers find a wonderful WINE LIFE of their own!
The Ultimate Coffee and Expresso Cookbook
INTRODUCTION Whether it's a morning drip or an evening espresso martini, amazing coffee is an art form. This Coffee Recipe Book is your guide to understanding how everything comes together for an artisanal coffee drink. With 100 different recipes ranging from classic cappuccino to specialty lattes, there's a delicious option for everyone. Easily match the expertise of your favorite cafe, with the perfect mix of the techniques and tools needed to give your daily grind a good home. Brew up the perfect coffee drink just like a barista-in the comfort of your own home. Whether you like it with milk and sugar, lots of foam, on ice or extra caffeinated, one thing is for sure-we all love our coffee. And most of us take coffee a very specific way. From the simplest (straight and black) to the most complicated (half skinny, half 1% milk extra hot Americano with an extra shot and whipped cream), there seems to be no end to the ways in which we can order our coffee.
Crushed
"For oenophiles and anyone interested in ways climate change is affecting what's on the table, this is a must-read." Publishers WeeklyTake a tour of wine and spirit production around the world and how climate change is affecting it at every stage - from cultivation to consumption. Climate change is altering the very nature of wine and spirit production around the world. From the unimaginably destructive fires that rip through California's wine country with terrifying frequency to the floods and hail storms that threaten grape and grain harvests from Bordeaux to Kentucky and beyond, no one involved in the world of beverage production is immune. Thankfully, it's not all doom and gloom: The rising temperatures brought on by climate change have allowed southern English wine producers to gain a foothold in the world of sparkling wine: Their best bubblies are finally gaining the kind of respect that producers have dreamed about for decades. CRUSHED takes readers on a tour of the world of wines and spirits, and tells the stories of the visionary growers and producers in eight key regions that are being affected by a climate whose shifts have been far more sudden and dramatic than they ever could have predicted.CRUSHED is written for everyone who enjoys a nice glass of wine or a great dram of whiskey, and who has ever wondered how it got from its literal roots to the glass they're holding in their hand. It's for anyone who is interested in the ways in which our dramatically shifting natural environment is affecting the beverages we've all taken for granted.Over the course of eight gripping chapters, each one focusing on a different part of the wine and spirits world, readers are taken into the lives of the people responsible for some of the most delicious drinks in the world in fascinating, revealing, and riveting ways. Plenty of books have been written about the effects of climate change on our food system, yet none has so vividly given readers the opportunity to understand how their beloved wines and spirits are being affected. Until now.
Bottled Poetry
California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always been true. James T. Lapsley's entertaining history explains how a collective vision of excellence among winemakers and a keen sense of promotion transformed the region and its wines following the repeal of Prohibition. Focusing on the formative years of Napa's fine winemaking, 1934 to 1967, Lapsley concludes with a chapter on the wine boom of the 1970s, placing it in a social context and explaining the role of Napa vineyards in the beverage's growing popularity. Names familiar to wine drinkers appear throughout these pages--Beaulieu, Beringer, Charles Krug, Christian Brothers, Inglenook, Louis Martini--and the colorful stories behind the names give this book a personal dimension. As strong-willed, competitive winemakers found ways to work cooperatively, both in sharing knowledge and technology and in promoting their region, the result was an unprecedented improvement in wine quality that brought with it a new reputation for the Napa Valley. In The Silverado Squatters, Robert Louis Stevenson refers to wine as "bottled poetry," and although Stevenson's reference was to the elite vineyards of France, his words are appropriate for Napa wines today. Their success, as Lapsley makes clear, is due to much more than the beneficence of sun and soil. Craft, vision, and determination have played a part too, and for that, wine drinkers the world over are grateful. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Bottled Poetry
California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always been true. James T. Lapsley's entertaining history explains how a collective vision of excellence among winemakers and a keen sense of promotion transformed the region and its wines following the repeal of Prohibition. Focusing on the formative years of Napa's fine winemaking, 1934 to 1967, Lapsley concludes with a chapter on the wine boom of the 1970s, placing it in a social context and explaining the role of Napa vineyards in the beverage's growing popularity. Names familiar to wine drinkers appear throughout these pages--Beaulieu, Beringer, Charles Krug, Christian Brothers, Inglenook, Louis Martini--and the colorful stories behind the names give this book a personal dimension. As strong-willed, competitive winemakers found ways to work cooperatively, both in sharing knowledge and technology and in promoting their region, the result was an unprecedented improvement in wine quality that brought with it a new reputation for the Napa Valley. In The Silverado Squatters, Robert Louis Stevenson refers to wine as "bottled poetry," and although Stevenson's reference was to the elite vineyards of France, his words are appropriate for Napa wines today. Their success, as Lapsley makes clear, is due to much more than the beneficence of sun and soil. Craft, vision, and determination have played a part too, and for that, wine drinkers the world over are grateful. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
