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| Open the pages of this inspiring guide and you uncork the exciting world of wine. Award-winning wine writer Joanna Simon steers the reader through a tantalizing range of styles, grape varieties, and wine-producing regions and offers refreshingly down-to-earth advice on how to buy, taste, serve, and store wine for maximum enjoyment. | An illustrated guide to the world's wine regions. From Alsace to Western Australia, and from Piedmont, Italy to the Colchagua Wine Valley of Chile, Wines of the World delivers essential information about each of the 35 major wine-producing regions in the world. | Complex flavors don't necessarily mean complicated recipes; these are easy-to-follow recipes with step-by-step instructions. The regions included in this book are the Maghreb: Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria; Southeast Asia and China: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and China; Japan; Lebanon and Syria, and a selection of countries from former French West Africa and islands in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. |
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| This lavishly illustrated A-Z reference is a must have for gardeners or anyone interested in the role of fresh herbs in a healthy lifestyle. A unique and innovative combination of cookbook, gardening guide, and organic reference, New Book of Herbs illustrates how growing and using fresh herbs can enhance ones home, health, and garden. | Japanese cuisine is renowned for being among the healthiest and tastiest in the world. Low-fat and less dependent on meat and dairy products, the Japanese way of eating is exactly how Westerners are trying to eat today. Kimiko Barber is the perfect teacher to show both beginner and advanced home cooks how to prepare 120 delicious recipes. | The first volume in a new series on regional food and cooking, this unique cookbook lets you create the spirit of Provence in your own home. As you follow a week-long course, you will learn more skills each day as you look over the shoulder of the Provencal chef-teacher—just like one of his students! |
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| Enjoy the freshest and most flavor-filled tastes each season has to offer with this blend of traditional innovative recipes based on the best seasonal ingredients.120 simple and sensational recipes for every season of the year! |
Do you like bold reds? How about fruity whites? What's your personal wine style? One of the fastest-rising stars in the world of wine has discovered a fun, fresh, and intuitive way to learn how to recognize the flavors you like best- and pick exactly the right bottle of wine every time. | Whether you are looking to find out more about the brewing and history your favorite beer or want to discover a hidden gem that you've never tried, this book tells and shows you everything you need to know from comprehensive tasting notes to how to choose and serve each beer correctly. |
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| The quintessential book for any sushi lover, Sushi: Taste and Technique shows you all you need to know about this exceptionally delicious and healthy cuisine, how to locate the freshest ingredients, how to use the right equipment, and how to master the etiquette of eating sushi correctly. From makizushi to hand rolls to vegetarian versions, this book teaches you how to create any kind of sushi. | Covering the essential techniques of mixing, kneading, shaping, and baking bread, and accompanied by an inspirational bread gallery with over 100 recipes, this is the perfect guide for both novice and experienced bakers. |
Every great party begins with great-tasting appetizers, whether it is an informal gathering of friends and family or an elegant champagne soiree. From spicy cilantro shrimp to eggplant caviar crostini, the authors show you how to prepare more than 250 simple yet sensational canapes. |
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| The essential insider's guide to every major wine-growing region in the world, the book offers dozens of helpful Top 10 lists covering a broad range of topics, including Best-Value Producers, Greatest-Quality Wines, and Most Exciting or Unusual Finds. | This affordable paperback on the ever-popular subject of chocolate is created for people with full and busy lives. Clear explanations on everything you should know about cooking and decorating with chocolate--for yourself or as gifts--are enhanced by dozens of detailed photographs. Step-by-step instructions and beautiful, full color photographs make this the perfect guide for the novice or seasoned choco-phile. | Written by three Michelin-starred chefs: Charlie Trotter, Marcus Wareing, and Shaun Hill, this book covers every cutting technique—chopping, slicing, dicing, carving, filleting—for every relevant ingredient: meat, fish, shellfish, vegetables, herbs, and fruit. |
