Comfort and Joy: Cozy Christmas Recipes, Favorite Holiday Memories and the Sweetest Gifts from the Heart
Author: Gooseberry Patch
Cinnamon, pine, cranberry and sage...and plenty of gingerbread! Comfort & Joy Cookbook is filled with a sampling of cozy recipes that are sure to warm your family this winter. Try savory chicken with mushrooms, 3-cheese potatoes and parmesan herb bread. Top off the meal with rich and creamy snow cocoa and farmhouse cut-out cookies. Tips include decorating touches that evoke memories of home, and we've also included an entire chapter of crafts and comforting holiday memories you'll enjoy all season long.
New interesting book: Death by Pad Thai or Hidden Kitchens
Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide
Author: Robert M Parker
Thoroughly revised and updated, this sixth edition of the Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide has been eagerly awaited by seasoned collectors and occasional drinkers alike. No one wants to waste his or her precious dollars on an unenjoyable bottle, and with Parker's advice in hand, no one ever will.
Employing his famous 100-point rating system and copious tasting notes, Parker evaluates more than 8,000 wines of recent vintage from all the major wine-producing regions of the world. More than 3,000 specific growers and producers from the world's leading viticultural areas are evaluated separately, and Parker's independence from the trade allows him to be completely honest in his opinions.
This latest edition has been revised, updated, and expanded to offer increased coverage of Italy and Australia, while continuing to provide the most extensive and authoritative reviews in the world of the wines of all regions covered previously
In addition to the valuable ratings information, Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide includes all the information today's consumer needs in order to select the perfect bottle, store it, spot a badly stored and abused bottle, and find the best wine values. Quite simply, Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide is the indispensable resource on wine from America's most knowledgeable and influential authority on the subject.
Publishers Weekly
Amateurs and experts alike will find this handbook valuable and easy to use. Parker evaluates the world's major viticultural regions, their best producers/growers and the quality of recent vintages, and provides wine-buying strategies. The heart of the volume is an easily grasped grading system that the author developed for his monthly newsletter the Wine Advocate, where portions of this work previously appeared. Parker never succumbs to florid writing or rehashed legends: the straightforward advice is meant to help readers understand wine and buy it knowledgeably. Assessments are well informed and thought out, although they naturally exhibit a personal element. This reference is packed with solid information presented with common sense. Illustrations not seen by PW. Author tour. (May 20)
Library Journal
Parker, a well known wine expert and an excellent writer, reviews the wines of France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, California, and Oregon in depth. After a particularly well written beginning chapter that includes lots of helpful facts, he lapses into 600 pages of tasting notes and chatty commentary. For each region, he gives accurate, concise information and a summary of recent vintages. In addition to naming the best growers, he rates them and offers a buying strategy for investors. Parker also includes the retail price and his numerical rating for each wine. Tiny chapters on the ``best of the rest'' conclude the book. Offering much valuable information, the book has only minor flaws and is an excellent buy. Recommended for libraries with serious wine readers. Carolyn I. Alexander, USACDEC Technical Information Ctr., Fort Ord, Cal.
Table of Contents:
| Introduction | 1 | |
| How to Use This Guide | 1 | |
| Organization | 1 | |
| Viticultural Areas Covered | 1 | |
| Rating the Producers and Growers | 2 | |
| Vintage Summaries | 2 | |
| Tasting Notes and Ratings | 3 | |
| Quoted Prices | 4 | |
| Wine Price Guide Codes | 5 | |
| The Role of a Wine Critic | 5 | |
| About Wine | 7 | |
| How to Buy Wine | 7 | |
| How to Store Wine | 8 | |
| The Question of How Much Aging | 9 | |
| How to Serve Wine | 12 | |
| Food and Wine Matchups | 14 | |
| What's Been Added to Your Wine? | 17 | |
| Organic Wines | 18 | |
| The Dark Side of Wine | 18 | |
| The Growing International Standardization of Wine Styles | 18 | |
| Destroying the Joy of Wine by Excessive Acidification, Overzealous Fining, and Abrasive Filtration | 18 | |
| The Inflated Wine Pricing of Restaurants | 21 | |
| Collectors versus Consumers | 21 | |
| Unspeakable Practices | 23 | |
| Wine Producers' Greed | 24 | |
| Wine Writers' Ethics and Competence | 25 | |
| In Vino Veritas? | 26 | |
| Safety Guidelines | 27 | |
| What Constitutes a Great Wine? | 29 | |
| Making Sense of Terroir | 33 | |
| Recommended Reading | 35 | |
| The Wine World's Biggest Lies | 38 | |
| A Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Understanding the Language of the Wine-maker | 38 | |
| Wine on the Internet | 39 | |
| The Wines of Western Europe | 41 | |
| Chapter 1 | France | 43 |
| Alsace | 43 | |
| Bordeaux | 126 | |
| Burgundy and Beaujolais | 387 | |
| Champagne | 624 | |
| The Loire Valley | 632 | |
| The Languedoc-Roussillon | 645 | |
| Provence | 686 | |
| The Rhone Valley | 693 | |
| Bergerac and the Southwest | 905 | |
| Chapter 2 | Italy | 909 |
| Piedmont | 909 | |
| Tuscany | 1023 | |
| Other Significant Red Wines of Italy | 1080 | |
| Chapter 3 | Germany and Austria | 1114 |
| Chapter 4 | Spain and Portugal | 1136 |
| The Wines of North America | 1177 | |
| Chapter 5 | California | 1179 |
| Chapter 6 | Oregon | 1452 |
| Chapter 7 | Washington State | 1478 |
| Chapter 8 | The Mid-Atlantic States | 1499 |
| The Best of the Rest | 1501 | |
| Chapter 9 | Australia and New Zealand | 1503 |
| Chapter 10 | Argentina and Chile | 1594 |
| Chapter 11 | South Africa | 1597 |
| Index | 1599 |
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