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Chow! Venice: Savouring the Food and Wine of La Serenissima Customer Review: Absolutely buy this book!
If you only take one guidebook to Venice, make sure it’s this one. We took the 1st Edition along on our first trip to Venice last year and it changed a good holiday into an amazing experience.
There is a mouth-watering introductory section with guidance on what specialities to look out, very useful for a first timer. The main section reviews recommended bars, cafes and restaurants, usefully divided into geographical areas so you can easily plan an itinerary to fit in with sight-seeing. The enthusiasm of the authors for good food and for the city of Venice shines through on every page.
The reviews of bars and restaurants are completely honest and reliable, not only for the quality of food but also for the ambience and helpfulness of the staff. We didn’t have a single bad experience in visiting any of the places recommended in the book. The excellence of the food and the friendliness of the people we met are all part of our happy memories of this beautiful city.
Whether this is your first or fiftieth trip to Venice, you won’t regret buying this book.
Customer Review: A great way to have a great holiday in a great city
I have been to Venice twice now, and finding good restaurants the first time was very difficult. I have just come back from my second trip, and in five days we dined at six of the authors’ recommendations, and they were all excellent.

Some of these restaurants would be impossible to find any other way (e.g. Locanda Montin).

This book made our vacation a real gourmet experience

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The Backyard Vintner: The Wine Enthusiast’s Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Wine at Home (Backyard)

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The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories Customer Review: Reading this book is like drinking wine.
The first story goes slow but as you get used to it, you ask for more. Wonderful name for a wonderful book.
Customer Review: The Short Story died when John Fante stopped writing.
The Bell didn’t Jar for Fante. He wrote like a man on fire, a fire of his own creation, a fire that lit up the sky and said ‘Here I am! Take me or cover your eyes!’ His stories are nearly flawless, all are great, and some are beyond great: they are burned into us and they are art. ‘A Wife for Dino Rossi’ is Everyman’s Long Day’s Journey. ‘Home Sweet Home’ and ‘Hail Mary’ drive the reader forward like a speeding locomotive - on Fire. Thank you, Black Sparrow Press for allowing us to warm our hearts and our minds. Thank you, Mr. Fante for never cooling; your sparks have lit a thousand flames.

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The Hungarian Cookbook: Pleasures of Hungarian Foods and Wines Customer Review: Hungarian Cooking for NonHungarian Tastes
“The Hungarian Cookbook” by Susan Derecskey is a real cookbook. If I wanted to learn how to cook Hungarian dishes (and I do), I would use this book. Everything about it is practical. This is no coffee table decoration filled with pictures of quaint cafes on the Duna, but something as useful as the Betty Crocker, and Better Homes and Garden cookbooks.

Derecskey starts the reader off with a quick explanation of the techniques and ingredients peculiar to a Hungarian meal. Equipment, she says, like pots and pans, are standard. None of the ingredients are unusual or hard to find. The Hungarians especially love to use bacon, bread crumbs, butter, caraway seeds, cooking fat, onions, sausage, sour cream and tomatoes. You already know about paprika.

There is a short introductory, but helpful chapter on wines, naming and describing ten major Hungarian wine types.

Each chapter presents the expected categories, like fish, poultry and pork. She gives us the Hungarian translation for each food type, and for each recipe as well.

The recipes themselves are nicely described. Since the book is void of pictures of prepared dishes (the only crucial drawback), she relies on a strong prose style. That is often missing from other international cookbooks filled with poetic takes on the romance of the local culture. Never self-indulgent, Derecskey is personal, comfortably providing her preferences for spicing quantity and serving styles.

This isn’t a gourmet book. The recipes here produce the foods being made in modern Hungarian homes. The author refers frequently to relatives who gave her insight for some of the more difficult dishes. Clearly written for nonHungarian tastes and cooking styles, it may disappoint some cooks. Those looking for a more authentic but slightly gourmet taste should look for Chef Gundel’s cookbook, based on his famous restaurant menu.

She gives us enough cultural discussion to keep the book from being bland, while never losing focus for why we purchased the book — to learn how to make specific Hungarian dishes.

Finally, right after the chapter, “Desserts and Cakes” (?dess?gek ?s Tort?k), there is a handy state-by-state shopping guide with 56 butchers, delicatessens and import stores.

I fully recommend “The Hungarian Cookbook.”

Anthony Trendl
Customer Review: Good inroduction to hungarian cooking
I have hungarian heritage, and needed a cookbok to serve finer dishes for our guests. I live in the USA and appreciated that all the measurements and temperature was translated to the american system. By now I have tried 10 different dishes and I am disapointed. Everything tastes the same. As my husband puts it: Your normal hungarian dishes has a firecracker of tastes in comparison to these recepies. So if you need inroduction, try it. If you would like to get the best of hungarian cooking this is just not good enough.

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First Steps in Wine Making Customer Review: Definitive - If you choose one book - this is it!
C J J Berry was a master on winemaking. I have bought and read most books on winemaking. This is the one I always turn back to. If you have to buy one book on homewinemaking this is the one! He begins my explaining the concepts and techniques of winemaking in easy to understand terms. He also explains the science behind the process but he is never confusing or condescending. I have never come across a problems which has not been solved by his troubleshooting section and his procedures are comprehensive but easy to follow. The remainder of the book takes you through a wine making year with suggestions, recipies and leaves you confident enough to experiment successfully. All recipes are in metric, imperial and US measures. He leaves you feeling that country wines from fruit are nothing to be ashamed of and that you should not worry about trying to emulate wines you can buy. Having said that, many of the wines stand comparison to anything you can buy. First published in 1960 it has not dated and will remain a reference for all authors to aspire to. It is an invaluable reference for both beginners and those more advanced wine makers.
Customer Review: May be the only book of its kind you will ever need?
I got into wine making about ten years ago, having used a few home brew wine kits. I then wanted to try making my own from scratch. Sure enough this book was recommended to me as a starting point. Well, I have now made over 100 gallons of wine in those years since biying the book, and not one bottle has been spoilt, all of them drinkable, and some of them that good that my friends were amazed that I made them, and hadn’t bought it from a supermarket! It has plenty of tips, recipe ideas, etc in very easy to understand guidance. Starting off with the basics this gives you enough to progress on to bigger and better ideas. I can now adapt and make my own recipes for home made wines with ease. Although a little old fashion in his ways, he makes home brewing a pleasure and not a chore.

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The Emperor of Wine: The Story of the Remarkable Rise and Reign of Robert Parker Customer Review: A GLASS ACT
It is said that Robert Parker can make a millionaire out of you with his mouth. When he spits out the wine from his mouth it can either spiral you into a different stratosphere or can bury your winery for life. That he is more influential that perhaps most people in the world is clear when you see his influence spanning Tennessee and Tokyo. The Emperor of Wine by Elin McCoy is a tribute to the undisputed czar of the cabernet. It traces his modest beginnings from meatloaf to Michelin starred restaurants. Even today, a score of over 90 from Parker can set cash registers ringing over a humble Riesling. Interesting, Parker owes his heady rise to the top to his love for Pat, his girlfriend who lured him from the boondocks of America to the cafes of France. It is another matter that Parker to this day is married to the woman. The book is an interesting take on a charismatic and often arrogant oenophile. But for those who have even a passing love for the Lafite, The Emperor of Wine is mandatory reading. The bouquet of the book is heady, the body wholesome and the flavour just right. Knowing Parker, the book would have got a 90 plus. Uncork it and pour it into your library.

Customer Review: Simply brilliant!
Elin McCoy’s biography of the world’s most influential wine critic is a thoroughly research and brilliantly written book. This is not just the story of the remarkable rise of Robert Parker in the wine industry; it’s also a very concise overview of developments in the wine idustry over the last five decades.

Whether you like Parker or not, whether you care about his marks on the famous 100-scale or not, you will be fascinated by this book if you’re a wine aficionado. McCoy is a critical but very fair biographer, and having read this book it is hard to believe that anybody will come up with a better account of Parker’s rise in the future.

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The Wine of Youth: Selected Stories Customer Review: Reading this book is like drinking wine.
The first story goes slow but as you get used to it, you ask for more. Wonderful name for a wonderful book.
Customer Review: The Short Story died when John Fante stopped writing.
The Bell didn’t Jar for Fante. He wrote like a man on fire, a fire of his own creation, a fire that lit up the sky and said ‘Here I am! Take me or cover your eyes!’ His stories are nearly flawless, all are great, and some are beyond great: they are burned into us and they are art. ‘A Wife for Dino Rossi’ is Everyman’s Long Day’s Journey. ‘Home Sweet Home’ and ‘Hail Mary’ drive the reader forward like a speeding locomotive - on Fire. Thank you, Black Sparrow Press for allowing us to warm our hearts and our minds. Thank you, Mr. Fante for never cooling; your sparks have lit a thousand flames.

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The Wines of Chablis and the Grand Auxerrois Customer Review: The Wines of Chablis and the Grand Auxerrois
An up to date survey of this region was needed and this concise guide provides it. There is a good survey of Chablis putting the wine into its historical context and charting its ups and downs over the centuries. The domaine profiles are informative (and provide a good balance of detail) as are the vintage notes. A very useful reference book and well written.

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French Wines Customer Review: A Fabulous Book
The best wine book I have ever read. Interesting, full of facts, well written, beautiful pictures and superbly laid out. Must dash, off to drink some Burgundy!
Customer Review: Great Guide
A very useful book when trying to decide what French wines to buy, to drink now or lay down. I did the Bordeaux tour this Summer which I really enjoyed, I’m looking forward to touring other regions in the future. A great gift for anyone interested in wine.