Cook / Beverages Books

This sweeping guide to all aspects of wine appreciation, the wine trade, and wine-making has over 3,000 entries, focusing on everything about wine from decanters to wine politics. The third edition continues to recognize wine in its many roles--as a commercial commodity, as a work of art, and as a source of pleasure.

For minutes and pennies per bottle, you can brew delicious beer at home. This book tells you everything you need to get started, and includes American, Canadian, and European brewing methods.

The wine maker Robert Mondavi writes about the good life in the wine business in this candid autobiography. Mondavi writes about his family, the sacrifices he has made for his achievements, and the rewards of a life lived with passion and daring.

A respected wine writer introduces and explains an international array of wines in this companion to the television series. With information on what to serve with what, what to order in a restaurant, and how to taste and store wine.

This collection reworks for the stage Ted Hughes's acclaimed 1997 translations of Ovid.

This classic is relied on by wine buffs both professional and amateur.

Sisters Norma Jean and Carole Darden traveled for seven years, visiting relatives, researching and recording the history of their family, and collecting traditional recipes, rare photographs, and recollections of family rituals and celebrations.