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Jan 24 2009
The Romans were famous for their sumptuous banquets and their love of festive revelry. This authentic mix of herbs and spices ensured the tastiest wine for their merry-making.
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Jan 24 2009
Behind every successful winemaker sits a faithful bow-wow - Huon Hooke. Wherever wine is made, you re likely to find a good dog stalking the cellar or the vineyard. The Deluxe Edition of Wine Dogs features over 150 wineries across Australia and New Zealand and over 210 stunning photos of their loyal woofers. It is an expanded re-print of the original Wine Dogs book first published in 2003. Along the way, the mutts and purebreeds are interspersed with short essays by Huon Hooke, Max Allen, Snoopy, Chester Osborn, Robert O Callaghan, Lisa McGuigan and many more. Find out which dog tried to fly John Singleton's helicopter, who bit Len Evans and discover the identity of the legendary Mars Bar thief of McLaren Vale. Wine Dogs is a photographic journal of stunning photographs and great yarns created all for the love of dogs and wine. www.winedogs.com
Customer Review: BEST EVER DOG PICS
This book is fabulous! The photos are the best dog pictures I have ever seen. The write ups for each dog are hilarious. Whenever I am feeling down, I pick up the book and find myself laughing in seconds. It is one of my very favorite books. The Wine Dogs USA is just as good. If you love dogs, you have to have it.
Customer Review: delightful book
I now have the whole collection from these great photographers.It's something you never tire of looking at if you love dogs AND wine like we do.
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Jan 23 2009
Roland Champagne Vinegar is prepared by fermenting wine until it becomes sufficiently acidic. It is mild and versatile, perfect for use in marinades, salad dressings and sauces. Roland Champagne Vinegar pairs particularly well with seafood dishes. It can also be combined with Roland Smooth Dijon Mustard, Roland Olive Oil, and fresh herbs to create a special vinaigrette.
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Jan 22 2009
Andrea Immer has one of the world's best, and least pretentious, wine palates. In her debut cookbook she proves that her taste in food is just as finely honed and down-to-earth. Presenting 125 recipes that pair magnificently with wine, she shows how to bring these great flavor combinations to the dinner table—with minimum fuss and at minimal cost. Her food and wine matches are guaranteed to make even weeknight meals special occasions.
Wine enthusiasts and epicures alike could not be in better hands: World-renowned Master Sommelier Andrea Immer is also a graduate of the French Culinary Insitute, where she refined her already formidable cooking skills and understanding of food flavors, and where today she is dean of wine studies. In her new book, she solves that most vexing dinner dilemma—which wines to serve with what foods.
Drawing on her sophisticated understanding of tastes, she offers up internationally inspired delicacies like Cumin-crusted Lamb; Fettucine with Proscuitto, Sage, and Mushrooms; or Tarte Tatin with Bourbon and Vanilla. She also offers down-home dishes like Fast-Track Baby Back Ribs, Turkey Quesadillas with Sesame Sweet Potato–Mole Sauce, or Cheese Grits with Shrimp and Chorizo. Everyday Dining with Wine is filled with recipes emphasizing a robust harmony of flavors for every course from soup to dessert.
Andrea believes that wine should be a part of everyday dining—for both pleasure and health. With this book in hand, you can choose a recipe and then find the wine that complements it best, or start with a special bottle and discover its perfect food partner. Here, too, are Andrea’s answers to such common and perplexing questions as “Where should I store my wine?”; “Once I open a bottle, how long will it be good?”; “Does the shape and quality of glassware matter?”
Wine and food belong together, whether for a weeknight meal or a dinner party. With Everyday Dining with Wine there is no guesswork involved in making any meal a cause for celebration.
Customer Review: Great info for everyone!
I love Andrea - I watch her on fine living network. She truly wants to make wine accesible to everybody. The recipes in here are very nice but the most helpful is of course, her wine recommendations. She makes both general and specific wine recommendations. I have spent the past summer getting to know some whites I never tried before - Riesling, Voignier, Gewurtztraminer and I absolutely am in love with them because of this book!
So this book is good for beginners to intermediates - if you really are a true newbie and don't know where to start - I would also highly recommend The Wine Club by Maureen Petrosky.
Customer Review: Invaluable
As a beginner learning about wine and food, this book has been invaluable. I highly recommend it.
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Jan 22 2009
Roland Raspberry Red Wine Vinegar is prepared by fermenting fine selected French wines until the raspberry vinegar becomes sufficiently acidic without allowing it to reach the point of bitterness. It's 7 degree acidity gives it full strength and full bodied fresh fruit flavor preferred by most chefs. Raspberry Wine Vinegar can be used in salad dressings with nut or olive oils. Fruit salads are also enhanced by a touch of raspberry vinegar. It can also be used to de-glaze a pan when cooking chicken breasts or on sauteed veal chops.
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Jan 21 2009
Great with our Tuscan Triangles. Add 1 Cup of mayonnaise and 1 cup of sour cream, 2 T of your favorite wine and enjoy. You can also divide the recipe to make 2 separate times. Lovely small metal tin presentation, great for traveling with and impromptu gifts.
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Jan 21 2009
Customer Review: Not for Brand-New Beginners
For beginners, I would rate the book 2 stars. For more experienced winemakers, this would be a fantastic reference book.
After reading the reviews here, I purchased this book, to be our very first book to tell us how to make wine. At the same time, I was trying to purchase winemaking equipment as a Christmas gift for my husband and was hoping this book would help me know what to buy. The book has a lot of recipes and great details, but not a really simple step-by-step "how-to" for the person who knows nothing at all about winemaking. The 10 minute free video that came with the equipment I bought showed more step-by-step than this book.
There is no index.
I think my husband would take one look at this book and say "Wow, I don't have the time to read this and figure it all out!" It leaves me with the impression that winemaking is difficult, tricky, and time-consuming.
Example: When I was trying to figure out what corks to buy, it does tell to use 1 1/3 inch corks for wines you intend to drink within 12-18 months and 1 3/4 inch ones for those to be aged longer. But that's all it tells. It doesn't tell me whether to buy straight ones or tapered ones, #7, #8, #9, etc.
I am now going to buy First Steps in Winemaking, hoping that will have some simpler answers.
Customer Review: New to Winemaking? So am I.
A friend over seas, living in a country where one must make their own, recommended this gem to me last year. Since then, although possessed of no previous knowledge or experience, I succeeded rather easily in making good wines. I also compared the wine from the recipes in Anderson book with highly recommended kits from Vino Del Vida. Although much easier and quicker, the kit product, while very satisfactory according to those who have tasted it, did not measure up to the superior wine made from Anderson's recipes. Practical suggestions for equipment, where to purchase it and techniques are explained in a straightforward fashion. With a relative small cash outlay and this book, you can be well on your way to an interesting hobby.
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Jan 20 2009
Olio Carli, the producers of our fine olive oil and balsamic vinegar, have recently released their red wine vinegar for sale in the United States. Pliny the Elder, the famous Roman Naturalist (70 AD) said, Vinegar possesses great merits for its many uses, without it life would lose some of its pleasantness. This Carli vinegar is made with fine red wine and aged in wooden barrels, using traditional methods.
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Jan 20 2009
Customer Review: Trust me it deserves five stars!
Absolutely invaluable in my quest for uncovering order behind Italian wine classifications (there is none by the way). The only other in depth books that cover Italy so well are the Vino Italiano and Italian wine for dummies...trust me even though it is a dummies book it is well done.
This text covers Northern Italy while the companion, Brunello to Zibbibo covers everything from Tuscany south.
Customer Review: Wonderful Resource
I am still working my way through it, but this is an extremely informative book. It contains tons of information about regions of Italian wines that are not often addressed. The lists of quality producers for each grape, region, etc. make it easier to have a safe choice when ordering from a wine list.
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