Friday, February 6, 2009

Food Culture in France or Complete Encyclopedia of Wine

Food Culture in France (Food Culture around the World Series)

Author: Julia Abramson

French cooking has been seen as the pinnacle of gastronomy. Food Culture in France provides an accessible tour of haute cuisine but also mainly the everyday food culture that sustains the populace. It illuminates the French way of life as well as showing what the popular cooking shows, such as Julia Child's, were based on. Readers will find the basics discussed in narrative chapters on food history, major foods and ingredients, cooking, typical meals, eating out, and diet and health.



New interesting textbook: Smoothies Blends and Shakes or Cooking from the Heart

Complete Encyclopedia of Wine: How to Choose and Enjoy the Wines of the World

Author: Robert Joseph

The Complete Encyclopedia of Wine provides essential information on which wines to drink region by region?from California to New Zealand, and from the grandest Bordeaux ch'teau to the minutest estate in Chianti or the most high-tech Napa winery?covering the best vintages of the leading vineyards and the exciting output of the small wineries. Hundreds of the world's great wines are described and evaluated. Every page is an information-packed celebration of the world's most varied and complex alcoholic beverage. It won't turn you into an instant wine expert, but it will provide you with the knowledge you need to buy wine with confidence and so enhance your enjoyment of the luscious liquor of the vine.



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