Discovering Wine or Making It Easy

Discovering Wine: A Refreshingly Unfussy Beginner's Guide to Finding, Tasting, Judging, Storing, Serving, Cellaring, and, Most of All, Discovering Wine

Author: Joanna Simon

Discovering Wine has been hailed by new and experienced wine lovers everywhere as the classic, approachable introduction to the luscious world of wine. In this revised and updated edition, Simon addresses the latest wine trends and provides brand-new information on vintages recently established in countries and continents around the globe.

More than 250 full-color photographs, maps, and charts beautifully complement Simon's effervescent approach to the fascinating world of wine, and help to dispel the mystique that so often surrounds the subject. She provides the crucial hints that will help you to become a wine aficionado -- virtually overnight. You will learn how to

• Taste and judge wine like an expert
• Correctly match food and wine
• Follow the newest guidelines for serving and storing your wines
• Discern classic wines from those that emulate them
• Understand the importance and role of grapes
• Know when a particular wine is ready to drink

In addition to demystifying wine, Simon explores famous vineyards and explains how the winemakers use grapes to their most delicious advantage. And after a concise but thorough roundup of today's wine styles, Simon conducts a tour through the wine regions of the world -- from Chianti to Coonawarra, from Médoc to Moldova, and everywhere in between.

As entertaining as it is informative, Discovering Wine is destined to remain the definitive beginner's guide to wine.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

PART ONE

How to get the most out of every glass

Why and how to taste
A perspective on serving
Matching food and wine
Ways to store your wine
The hardest question: when to drink

PART TWO

The making of first-class wine

The importance of grapes
The main classic wine styles,and alternatives
The vineyards: where and why
Choices in the vineyard: tending vines
The winemaker's role

PART THREE

Where the best wines are made

France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Portugal
USA and Canada
South America
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Austria and Switzerland
Eastern Europe
Eastern Mediterranean
UK and Other countries

Index

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Making It Easy

Author: Food Network Staff

Savory recipes that cooks can prepare with little time and effort, yet with fabulous results. Delicious meals for busy families or impromptu crowds. Dozens of irresistible appetizers, main dishes, sides, and desserts for any occasion. Great tips and shortcuts for faster meal planning and preparation.

Tea and Teatime Recipes or Putting up Fish on the Kenai

Tea and Teatime Recipes

Author: Maggie Stuckey

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Table of Contents:

An Introduction to Tea

Herbal Tea

Spiced Tea

Healing Teas

Great Tea Recipes

Hot Tea

Iced Tea

Great Recipes to Serve with Tea

Finger Foods

Tea Sandwiches

Scones and Muffins

Pastry Puffs

Tarts

Cakes and Cookies

Fruit Desserts

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Putting up Fish on the Kenai: A Guide to Processing Alaska Salmon in the Cook Inlet Tradition

Author: Hazel J Felton

This "how-to" manual pays tribute to smoking and canning or "jarring" one of Alaska's most prized resources. The book contains many photos to illustrate the process, as well as historic and contemporary pictures.

Art of the Cocktail or The Marthas Vineyard Cookbook

Art of the Cocktail: 100 Classic Cocktail Recipes

Author: Philip Collins

The Art of the Cocktail presents one hundred examples of the mixmaster's art that are both beautiful and tasty. From the elegant, classic Martini to the blockbuster Sloe Gin Fizz, the range and inventiveness of these recipes is both astounding and inspiring.

This book is more than a memorial. It provides recipes for the drinks, suggestions for serving them, and photographs of swirling liquors in lovely vintage glasses. The Art of the Cocktail is a reminder that the consumption of alcohol requires more than a container and a beverage. At once functional and attractive, it is a perfect complement to the drinks celebrated in its pages.

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The Martha's Vineyard Cookbook: Over 250 Recipes and Lore from a Bountiful Island, 4th Edition

Author: Louise Tate King

TASTE THE ESSENCE OF NEW ENGLAND Through the centuries inhabitants of Martha’s Vineyard have harvested the bounty of its vine-covered land and the ocean that surrounds it. This newly updated and comprehensive cookbook contains more than 250 authentic recipes that reflect the culinary heritage of the peoples who have made this tiny island their home—Wampanoag Indians, English and Scottish whaling families, Portuguese fishermen, and many others.
More than twenty brand-new recipes grace this edition, including new sections that celebrate the recipes of the island’s Brazilian and African American residents.
With recipes ranging from savory to sweet interspersed with fascinating tidbits and tales about the Vineyard’s past and present, this delightful cookbook captures the flavor of New England, both then and now. Try these delicious dishes:
Roast Leg of Vineyard Lamb  Portuguese Chowder  Broiled Trout with Apricot Glaze
Snowball Cake  Lobster Salad Rolls  Black Walnut and Pumpkin Muffins  Christmas Eve Salad  Butternut Squash Casserole Cranberry Crisp  Brazilian Coconut Rice  Sweet Potato Pie

Table of Contents:

Foreword   Florence Fabricant     vi
Foreword   Henry Beetle Hough     viii
Acknowledgments 2008     x
Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     xii
Chowders     1
Fish     13
Shellfish     49
Moors and Meadows     79
Meat, Game, and Poultry     103
Vegetables and Salads     135
Blueberries and Cranberries     167
Cakes, Cookies, and Breads     187
Pies, Puddings, and Other Desserts     201
Sundries     217
Portuguese and Brazilian Cookery     235
African-American Cookery     257
The Old-Timers     271
Epilogue     287
Index     289

Wilderness Chef or Gourmet Vegetarian Feasts

Wilderness Chef: The Art and Craft of One-Pan Lightweight Trail Cooking

Author: John R Weber

Soups, stews, casseroles, biscuits, muffins and desserts can all be prepared in one pan over a single burner stove in the wilderness. John Weber's latest volume of The Wilderness Chef, The Art and Craft of One-Pan Lightweight Trail Cooking is a collection of more than 200 unique recipes that are easy and fast to prepare, lightweight and have the taste, texture, color and variety of meals cooked at home.

All the meals can be prepared using ingredients found in almost all medium to large grocery stores; no more expensive, hard-to-find commercially prepared outdoor foods. Best of all, by using TVP (textured vegetable protein) as a meat substitute, the meals can be made entirely from lightweight dry ingredients. You don't have to carry cans, jars or fresh foods into the wilderness to have great tasting meals anymore.

In addition to the recipes, John discusses camp sanitation, drying your own foods, pre-trip packing of foods and how to use the Outback Oven. He is truly a Wilderness Chef and with the help of The Wilderness Chef, The Art and Craft of One-Pan Lightweight Trail Cooking you can be too and change boring camp meals into culinary celebrations using only one pan.

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Gourmet Vegetarian Feasts: An International Selection of Appetizing Recipes for All Occasions

Author: Martha Rose Rose Shulman

A former food editor of Cosmopolitan and winner of the Tastemaker Award, Shulman presents a tempting variety of vegetarian recipes, from appetizers to desserts.