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I'm a professional cook and this book it's just gorgeous! I took lots of ideas for my own creations and it works perfectly! Full of great recipes, beautiful plating, tips, beautiful pictures (for me this is very important in a cooking book!)..totally recommend it!!Get more detail about Wild Sweets: Exotic Dessert and Wine Pairings.

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Interesting tale of drinks preoared by the bartenders of the famed Hotel Ritz and Papa Hemingways home away from home.Get more detail about The Cocktails of the Ritz Paris.

Cheapest The Bryant Family Vineyard Cookbook: Recipes from Great Chefs and Friends

I'm not much of a cook, but I enjoyed this book. The vineyard/wine pictures are lovely (but there are no photos of the food). The recipies are clearly written with lists of ingredients. Directions appear to be easily followed. Proceeds from the book are for charity. Congratulations to Ms. Bryant and Mrs. Fentress on a job well done!Get more detail about The Bryant Family Vineyard Cookbook: Recipes from Great Chefs and Friends.

Cheap The Ultimate Fruit Winemaker's Guide: The Complete Reference Manual For All Fruit Winemakers

This book appears to be an unfinished draft that was rushed to print without proper editorial overview. It fails to live up to it's own title. As a "Complete Reference" manual it doesn't include apples as one of the major fruits for making wine/cider even though it does describe how important hard apple cider is in the history of fruit wines, nor is there even a recipe for hard apple cider. Speaking of recipes, the ones given are all in metric - not great for the US market. Although there is a chapter on organic and kosher wines, there is precious little information on how to make them. Throughout the book, but especially towards the end, references are made to photos that are missing, or text that wasn't included. Did an editor even read the drafts before printing? It's far from complete.Get more detail about The Ultimate Fruit Winemaker's Guide: The Complete Reference Manual For All Fruit Winemakers.

Buying Red Wine for Dummies

I'm glad to see that so many people do not mind applying the term "dummy" to themselves when it comes to trying new things. Even though the black and yellow cover clashes horribly with my copies of Emmerson and Tennyson on the bookshelf, I am not ashamed. I would hope that the self-professed "snob" who wrote one off these reviews has the sense not only to use his large vocabulary with caution, but also to spell "label" properly when communicating how snobbish s/he is. Get more detail about Red Wine for Dummies.

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This is an excelent book for your library and a must read for anyone with health issues. It bridges the time from N. W. Walker's RAW Vegetable JUICES (1936) to the present with references to other masters in the art of juicing. A very much welcomed addition to my alternative health care collection.

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Purchase Bock (Classic Beer Style Series ; 9)

This series has some great books this one included the only provblem in fact I have with this series is they changed the size of the books in later style volumes which is very anoying to me Get more detail about Bock (Classic Beer Style Series ; 9).

Order Espresso Coffee: The Chemistry of Quality

For those interested in learning more about coffee science, this is perhaps one of the best books out there. Covers everything from basic cultivation to roasting chemistry.

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This purchase was for a person who enjoys wine. I read a few pages of this book and felt encouraged to read more.Get more detail about Chicken Soup for the Wine Lover's Soul: A Toast to the Perfect Occasion (Chicken Soup for the Soul).

Shop For The Gourmet's Guide to Cooking with Wine

This book could be labeled enchanting. Absolutely enchanting. Cooking with wine is a nice technique for adding flavor to one's dishes. I use it pretty often, from my old dinner party standby, Beef bourguignon, to my wife's family recipe for spaghetti sauce (or, as they refer to it, "gravy"). This book expands my wine cooking horizons considerably.

The book begins with a warning from Julia Child: "If you put rot-gut in, you'll get rut-gut out." Only use wine in a recipe that you would drink yourself! The author notes that (Page 6) ". . .a nice wine will only enhance a dish, such as in a sauce whose flavors are intensified through reduction."

Some of the recipes in here I have made before, such as Beef Bourguignon, Coq au vin, Coquilles Saint Jacques, Chicken Piccata, and so on. But the recipes of these tried and true dishes are different enough from mine that I can experiment.

The book proceeds as follows:

Introduction. Here, we get a brief essay on cooking with wine, a listing of wines that are good for cooking, and how long it takes alcohol from the wine to burn off.

Appetizers and soups. Here are some nice examples of wine with appetizers and soups. Chablis Vichyssoise: An old favorite, Vichyssoise, gets some new life with two cups of Chablis. Or French Onion Soup Chardonnay. I don't much enjoy Chardonnay, but I can see how this would add a nice taste to French Onion Soup. Indeed, this recipe is different from the one that I have used, and "Vive la difference!" Then there is a recipe for a salad dressing, featuring 1/4 cup of sherry (Allison's House Dressing).

The Great European Classics. Here, we see a series of classic recipes and their use of wine. Already mentioned, Beef Bourguignon, Coquilles Saint Jacques, Coq au Vin (with white wine instead of red; an interesting change of pace). Other interesting classics mentioned in this section: Veal Marsala and Veal Oscar.

Beef, Veal, Pork, and Lamb. I enjoy Steak Diane a great deal. I have not made it in the past; I note that there is an array of recipes available. Here is a nice variation. The wine used? Madeira. Also, cognac (or brandy). I've tended to use a meatloaf recipe from "Joy of Cooking," but the one in this book will be my next meatloaf effort--Mom's Madeira Meatloaf with Cremini Gravy. The meatloaf has standard ingredients--plus the Madeira. The gravy features cremini or portobello mushrooms with, you guessed it, more Madeira.

There follows sections on Poultry, Seafood, Pasta, Side dishes, and Brunch.

Great pictures of the dishes. The instructions, for the most part, are straightforward. A good concept lies at the heart of this volume and that concept is executed well.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Coffee and Tea

If you've ever wanted to know everything there is to know about coffee and tea, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Coffee & Tea is certainly a good resource. From growing locations to harvesting methods, processing to transport, home-roasting to blending, and even the best way to pull a shot of espresso, Travis Arndorfer and Kristine Hansen explore the world of these gourmet beverages from start to finish.

For sheer volume and completeness of information this book is a winner; I learned an incredible amount of wonderful history and useful information from it. For liveliness of writing--an important consideration in the long-running "Complete Idiot's Guides" line, which strives to make often-complex subjects accessible to the general public--it does a solid job, although it's hard to go step-by-step through the complexities of pulling espresso, properly tamping grounds, and cleaning an espresso machine without things getting a tad boring.

I have only one major reservation regarding this book, and it was enough to bring my rating down a bit. The authors manage to convey the impression through all of their detailed information that unless you're buying incredibly fresh beans, grinding them with an expensive grinder, brewing them with an expensive brewer, and preferably roasting green beans yourself in small batches with your own roaster, then you're simply not drinking good coffee. I honestly couldn't look through their recommendations and find a middle ground that I'd consider affordable that they'd consider drinking good coffee.

Given the typical market of the CIG books, this seems incongruous. It's one thing to tell you how to spend incrementally more depending on your budget and time available to get the most out of your coffee experience, but this book makes it seem like no one except wealthy, semi-retired folks or professionals who do this for a living can make "good" coffee. That's a shame, because I think it's likely to make a good handful of readers throw up their hands and say "well, if I can't do it right, why bother to go beyond my normal cheap cup and explore any of this at all?"

If you have an interest in the details of coffee and tea I do recommend that you pick up this book. Just make sure you're willing to be a little stubborn in putting aside the authors' overly-restrictive definitions of good coffee, and go with what you feel up to.Get more detail about The Complete Idiot's Guide to Coffee and Tea.

All Belgian Beers Review

As others have commented, this is definitely a book only for true Belgian beer connoisseurs who might be looking to track every beer they possibly can. Minimal details are provided and, to be honest, the huge book is still far from complete, but the array of Belgian beers described is still remarkable. Also, good info is offered on brewery names and locations. This book is not for the average enthusiast, but certainly has a niche for true beer Meisters!Get more detail about All Belgian Beers.

Make Your Juicer Your Drug Store Top Quality

This is a great book. Yes it's true it was written years ago, but the nutritional information about vegetables and fruits is still valid today. It's a great book to have in case you are feeling sick or just want to stay healthy! I gave it 4 stars only because it could be expanded, other than that, it's a 5 star book.Get more detail about Make Your Juicer Your Drug Store.

The American Wine Society Presents: Growing Wine Grapes This instant

Very basic information at best. Not really much help if you are seriously thinking of growing your own grapes. Many questions, like what variety should I grow, in not addressed properly as far as a Merlot or Cabernet etc. In fact the word "Merlot" is not even in the book! How far apart should the vines be planted? Beats me! I guess I'll have to look in another book. Get more detail about The American Wine Society Presents: Growing Wine Grapes.

An Invitation to Tea (Teatime Pleasures) Immediately

Yes, a sweet book, as others have described it. But, I was a tad disappointed that it was so thin when I received it. I would not have paid nine bucks for this book if I had seen it first. This is the type of book I would pick up at a gift shop for three or four dollars, max. Still contemplating returning this one; I wouldn't even have to box it up - just stick it in an envelope and mail it back.Get more detail about An Invitation to Tea (Teatime Pleasures).

Educating Peter: How Anybody Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert Best Quality

Far from a wine connoisseur and an amateur of a first degree is the most apt description of my current relationship to wine. Having said that, a glass of wine is a ritual I enjoy on a regular basis and for that reason "Educating Peter" grabbed my attention at the bookstore.

"Educating Peter" felt like an unfinished work. It is clear that Lettie Teague knows the subject, but the sheer amount of information she attempts to cover leads to a number of very brief chapters which at times feel like an outline to a larger thought process - unfortunately, as a reader I couldn't fill in those gaps myself. Having said that, it is an entertaining and a quick read. "Educating Peter" won't turn you into a first class sommelier, but it will introduce you to the language and give you enough high-level background to approach the subject of Wine in a more intelligent manner.Get more detail about Educating Peter: How Anybody Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert.

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This book is full of great recipes, but you cannot find them unless you know the name in advance. Not for someone who is trying to find something by type, style or ingredients. Be sure to have lots of time if you are looking for ideas. But good recipes if you have the patience to find them.Get more detail about The Ultimate Little Frozen Drinks Book.