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If you like tea, this book is for you. Good coffee table book. Lot of interesting facts and some good recipes inside also. Interesting read... Get more detail about 365 Things Every Tea Lover Should Know.

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I heard her interview with Bob Edwards on NPR radio. She knows all kinds of trivia and minutiae about bourbon. I'm buying the book based on her interesting interview. Stay tuned.Get more detail about The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book.

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my wife wanted this book, has several receipes, easy to follow, alot of ways to reduce calorie intake. Good tasting drinks!Get more detail about SkinnyTinis: All the Fun for Half the Calories.

Cheap Grossman's Guide to Wines, Beers, and Spirits

There may be more recent books focused on wine or beer, but this is the most comprehensive guide to alcoholic beverages in general. Tired of listening to a couple of colleagues discussing a subject that I knew nothing about, I read this fascinating book, and soon turned the tables: until I showed them evidence, they simply would not believe that Amaretto was made made from apricot pits rather than almonds! Many other products, like Spanish sherry, have interesting details and histories that I had never suspected. About the organization, roughly one-third is devoted to wines (a chapter per country), one-third to other alcoholic beverages, and one-third to technical advice and appendices on menu-planning, storage, vintages, etc. A highly enjoyable and informative book, very nicely balanced.Get more detail about Grossman's Guide to Wines, Beers, and Spirits.

Buying Coffee: Scrumptious Drinks and Treats

This is a gorgeous little book that could serve quite well as a gift. The photos are eye-catching, delectable, and frequent. The recipe layout is clean, simple, and easy to read. Directions are easy to follow, and there are no unnecessarily complex recipes in here.

The book starts off with a modest amount of information aimed at helping you to produce a wonderful cup of coffee. (This is largely information such as different brewing methods, a few notes on different roasts, and a page of tips and hints.) This is followed by 'recipes' for the basic coffee drinks that everyone loves. However, the book swiftly moves on to the recipes you won't find in every other book; this seems to me to be a very good compromise.

'Coffee' includes recipes for new and different coffee drinks (one of my favorites is a coffee-based ice cream soda), tidbits to enjoy with your coffee (such as a fantastic pastry to dip in your coffee that's easily assembled from a sheet of puff pastry and some crystallized ginger), and coffee-flavored treats. We made an ice cream recipe from this book that was out of this world. If you're feeling adventurous you could make a coffee-flavored cake with coffee-toffee icing, or you could keep things simple (yet impressive) with java jolt truffles or coffee caramels. Every recipe we tried came out beautifully, and the directions were detailed and easy to follow.Get more detail about Coffee: Scrumptious Drinks and Treats.

Purchase The Art of the Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the Classics

I like this book. I got it at the bookstore and thought I might have to return it because there are so many recipes that call for home infusions, which take hours-weeks to finish before you can even make the cocktail. However, it's worth it. The Brazil 66 is AMAZING (cachaca, bit of fresh OJ, fresh limes muddled in thick simple syrup--no prep needed)! This book reminds me of a cookbook with tips, stories, and advice. It would make an excellent gift.Get more detail about The Art of the Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the Classics.

Order Home Winemaking Step by Step: A Guide to Fermenting Wine Grapes

Worthwhile, well written, practical, comprehensive, and easy to follow reference for small scale winemaking hobbyists. Jon Iverson takes the mystery out of the science and includes tips and tricks, personal insights, and his own personal rasberry liqueur recipe. Whether you have access to fresh grapes or kits, this book will guide the new amateur winemaker down a successful path and help you develop intermediate knowledge over time that leads to your own personal style. A recommended read.

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this is a beautifully photographed cookbook. i've tried several recipes and they are very yummy. if you are looking for etiquette i would recommend another book. but for recipes this one is very nice.Get more detail about Afternoon Tea.

Shop For Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body

I'm very impressed with Raw Energy. I've been looking for ways to add more raw food to my diet, but not necessarily at dinner. And I don't have time, nor the organization, for raw food cookbooks that make you start an entree 3-5 days ahead of time to sprout, soak and dehydrate the creation. This book focuses on snacks.

I like that most recipes use ingredients I already have around the house. There are a few with more exotic ingredients like spirulina powder, but these are easy to skip over if you don't wish to buy the ingredient. Each recipe is fairly simple and straight forward. Most use a blender or food processor, a few use a dehydrator (but if you're into raw food, you probably already have these anyhow). There are lots of recipes that omit frequently allergic ingredients such as dairy, egg or gluten so I can make snacks for my friend with food allergies.

I just made Cashew Maple Oatmeal Squares and they taste just like an out-of-the-oven oatmeal cookie, but cold. There's also recipes for breakfast cereals, "milk"shakes and smoothies, dips, trail mixes and lots of desserts.

This book is going to be getting a lot of use at my house.Get more detail about Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body.

Wine: The 8,000 Year-Old Story of the Wine Trade

This was an extremely boring read, and read like a junior high text book. Way too much information, very few anecdotes. I can't remember anything interesting to take away from the book, and am sad I plowed threw the whole thing (I was on vacation, and that was the only book I brought.) I am a wine specialist and educator, and found no inspiration in this. Find another wine history book.Get more detail about Wine: The 8,000 Year-Old Story of the Wine Trade.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Bar Review

I was really disappointed with this book. The complete idiot's guide is an understatement. I have no experience working in a bar, but even I found myself reading this book and saying things like "Well, duh" to myself.

There were some pieces of info I found useful, but then the book stops and doesn't go into it. It will say things like "don't forget you need different types of glassware for different types of drinks" (no kidding, really?), but then doesn't give an idea of what you will need. Or it says "don't forget to price your food/drinks high enough to make a profit" (again, duh) but doesn't give you any formulas for actually producing the info you will need.

Basically, if you have any sort of business sense, any experience in the business world or project management or a bachelor's degree in any such field, you will be way over-qualified to read this book. I got more out of taking a local 1-week mixology course (a course that just teaches you how to mix drinks) than I got out of this book.

I ended up getting a few others that I have found VASTLY more helpful:

Small Business Financial Management Kit for Dummies (excellent book!!!)
Running a Bar for Dummies
Running a Restaurant for Dummies

The dummies series are much more comprehensive and provide more valuable tools and examples for actually creating what you will need. It gets down to the nitty gritty and assumes the reader has at least a basic business knowledge.Get more detail about The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Bar.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Smoothies Top Quality

I didn't know how to make a smoothie and this book had easy to understand recipes for a great smoothie of many different types.Get more detail about The Complete Idiot's Guide to Smoothies.

Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey This instant

As a self proclaimed beergeek, and avid homebrewer, I found Red, White, and Brew a very enjoyable read, that forces the reader to keep turning pages to see what's next on the beer menu. The author does a nice job of getting behind the scenes of some of America's best breweries, and sheds some light on what makes these unique people tick.

My only critisism of the author's writing style lies in the way he weaves his own personal life experiences in with each of the interviews. I found this to be confusing at times, not completely sure if he was spaeking about himself, or the subject of his interview.

All in all this is a book worthy of a read by anyone who enjoys the craft brew revolution underway in our country, or just likes reading about, as well as drinking beer.Get more detail about Red, White, and Brew: An American Beer Odyssey.

FOR GOD COUNTRY AND COCA-COLA Best Quality

Extensive and enlightening. Coke is not only a product, it is America in a bottle. This book is a history book and a handbook of marketing. English is spoken around the world thanks to Coke, and the title shows how much Americans consider this to be a due. Get more detail about FOR GOD COUNTRY AND COCA-COLA.

Successful Wine Marketing Get it now!

This is textbook on wine marketing, based on the annual wine marketing summer course at the University of California at Davis. It a mix of wine and business/marketing knowledge. I read it as someone who was curious about marketing wine, and someone who is generally wine interested, but am not in the business actively nor am I a marketing person. The book seemed well written, concise, and to the point. There are lots of examples, but this definitely looks and feels like a textbook rather than a popular business book. It's priced as a textbook as well, though inexpensive new copies are widely available.Get more detail about Successful Wine Marketing.