Conversations on Talent, Technique, and Terroir Natalie Berkowitz In these fascinating interviews, winemakers from the United States and abroad clarify the complex process of converting grapes into wine, with more than forty vintners candidly discussing how a combination of talent, passion, and experience shape the outcome of their individual wines. Each winemaker offers rare insight into how new technologies are revolutionizing historic winemaking practices. The interviews are supplemented with personal recipes and maps of winemaking regions. An aroma wheel captures the vast array of wine's complex flavors and aromas. Read an excerpt $27.95 $19.57 Use discount code WINBER at check-out Cloth | 336 pages | 43 illus. | £19.95 |
Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity Joanne Finkelstein Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display of self-identity, especially in the affluent West where the restaurant, from local café to Michelin-starred establishment, deftly stages these performances. In this follow-up to her classic Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life-restaurant dining-and uses it to examine the dramatic effect our public behavior and social habits have on our private desires and sense of identity. Use discount code FASFIN at check-out Cloth | 224 pages |
Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages Andrew Smith Now available in paperback!A companion to Andrew F. Smith's critically acclaimed and popular Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, this volume recounts the individuals, ingredients, corporations, controversies, and myriad events responsible for America's diverse and complex beverage scene. Smith revisits the country's major historical moments-colonization, the American Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, the temperance movement, Prohibition, and its repeal-and he tracks the growth of the American beverage industry throughout the world. The result is an intoxicating encounter with an often overlooked aspect of American culture and global influence. Read the chapter Most Popular Drink of the Day (hint: it rhymes with "deer" Use discount code DRISMI at check-out Paper | 336 pages | £13.95 |
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