Making Wild Wines and Meads or Gentleman at the Table

Making Wild Wines and Meads: 125 Unusual Recipes Using Herbs, Fruits, Flowers and More

Author: Pattie Vargas

Go Wild!

Make Extraordinary Homemade Wines from Everything but Grapes!

Elegant, exotic wines, honey meads, spicy metheglins, and fruity melomels -- there's no end to great-tasting elixirs you can make using ingredients from your local market and even your own backyard!

You'll find easy, step-by-step winemaking instructions plus memorable recipes, including:

-- Apricot Wine

-- Dry Mead

-- Marigold Wine

-- Almond Wine

-- Cherry Melomel

-- Cranberry Claret

-- Peapod Wine

-- Lemon-Thyme Metheglin

--Strawberry Wine

-- Rose Hip Melomel

Table of Contents:

1 Winemaking Made Easy

2 Making Wines from Fruits

3 Making Wines from Flowers, Nuts & Vegetables

4 Making Meads, Melomels & Metheglins

5 Making Wines from Herbs

6 Making Wine Coolers & Wine Punches

Glossary of Winemaking Terms

Resources

Index

Interesting textbook: Edible Estates or Champagne

Gentleman at the Table: A Concise, Contemporary Guide to Table Manners

Author: John Bridges

A Gentleman at the Table will give any man the knowledge he needs to maneuver any dining situation - from a casual meal of fried chicken at his mom's house to a seven-course dinner at the finest restaurant in the world. It includes. . .

• How to set a table
• How to pronounce more than 100 unusual food names
• How to use obscure eating utensils
• How to perform the Heimlich maneuver
• How to eat more than 25 foods that are challenging to eat gracefully such as lobster, snails, fried chicken, and pasta.

In a society where more and more people eat with plastic forks and spoons at fast food restaurants, it is still important that a man know proper dining etiquette. There are still situations where not knowing what a finger bowl is or not knowing how to pronounce an item on a menu can have an effect on what others think of you. Showing he has little working knowledge of table manners at a lunch meeting or on a job interview over dinner may have an important impact on a man's life.

Like all the books in the GentleManners series, A Gentleman at the Table is easy to use, non-threatening, and an entertaining read.