Wine Science

On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberately set by a passionate oenophile named Mark Anderson, a skilled con man and thief with storage space at the warehouse who needed to cover his tracks.

As they struggle to survive in a barbarous fantasy land, a mother and daughter attempt to shake off the bonds of female slavery and escape to freedom.

Charles E. Hires and the Drink That Wowed a Nation chronicles the humble origin and meteoric business success of this extraordinary entrepreneur. Author Bill Double uses published interviews, correspondence, newspaper reports, magazine articles, financial data, and a small family archive to tell this story of native ingenuity. Here, the rough-hewn capitalism of the gilded age, the evolution of the neighborhood drugstore, the rise of advertising in creating mass markets, and the emerging temperance movement all come together in a biography that fizzes with entrepreneurial spirit.

Patrick Hunt has been teaching in Humanities at Stanford University for the past 20 years. His Ph.D. is from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, University of London in 1991. He is a National Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America since 2009 and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since 1989. National Geographic Society has sponsored some of his archaeology fieldwork. He appears frequently on PBS, NOVA, National Geographic and History Channel broadcasts.

First, Catch is a cookbook without recipes, an invitation to journey through the digressive mind of a chef at work, and a hymn to a singular nine-dish festive spring lunch. In Eagle’s kitchen, open shelves reveal colorful jars of vegetables pickling over months, and a soffritto of onions, celery, and carrots cook slowly under a watchful gaze in a skillet heavy enough to double as a murder weapon. He is a tour guide to the world of ingredients, a culinary explorer, and thoughtful commentator on the ways immigration, technology, and fashion has changed the way we eat.

Better Than Homemade is food biographer Carolyn Wyman’s freewheeling and entertaining cultural history of the innovative packaged foods that changed the way we eat. It highlights the fascinating stories behind the food inventions; the histories behind the brands and icons that have become synonymous with them; the jingles that have made them such a large part of our popular culture; and the recipes that have tutored generations of homemakers and comfort-food master chefs.

From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmers' markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens - and especially to vegetables. Whether it’s an heirloom tomato, curled cabbage, or succulent squash, from a farmers' market or a backyard plot, the humble vegetable offers more than just nutrition - it also represents a link with long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding. In this charming new book, those veggies finally get their due.

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

Kelley Fanto Deetz draws upon archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a nuanced study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. She reveals how these men and women were literally "bound to the fire" as they lived and worked in the sweltering, and often fetid, conditions of plantation house kitchens.

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

国际巅峰调酒大师、品酒大师，有酒神之称的李解冻，为了品尝出土的已成膏状汉代美酒醉死于而立之年。当他一觉醒来时，却发现自己来到了一个名叫五行大陆的世界……國際巔峰調酒大師、品酒大師，有酒神之稱的李解凍，為了品嚐出土的已成膏狀漢代美酒醉死於而立之年。當他一覺醒來時，卻發現自己來到了一個名叫五行大陸的世界……

Have you ever pondered... What led to the creation of the humble sandwich? Why does chocolate have that irresistible allure? What's the story behind our morning cup of coffee? Like the ever-curious, you've perhaps questioned the origins of these everyday items on your plate. Prepare yourself for an enlightening journey as you uncover your favorite foods' unexpected and perhaps slightly peculiar history.

For most people, giving up the day job and moving to a beautiful area of France and living off the vines is an impossible but delicious dream. In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband decided to sell up in Britain and emigrate to the Dordogne. Their idea was to buy a house with a few vines attached and employ someone to tend to the wine while they earned their living with some financial consultancy work.

Here is a brilliant recounting of the life of Odysseus after his safe return to the island of Ithaca, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. Countless readers and listeners have thrilled to the adventures of Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey, but what further adventures awaited him after his ten years of war and ten years of wandering? Narrated by Telemachus to the bard Phemios, On Wine-Dark Seas speaks of the human drama of a man gone twenty years from home and family, a man who saw Troy on the night of its destruction, a man who lives the special quest which is his destiny.

It is adventure on the high seas when the lady Snowraven sets sail to reclaim the fabled banner of the doomed expedition, lost long ago. But, she is soon entangled in the war of ideology that is reshaping the very fabric of her world - between those creating machines of industry, fueled by ethanol, and those clinging to the old ways of "magic" holding steadfast to the glowing Nexil-Orbs and the elite classes that create them.

For fans of the Table Manners podcast, Jessie and Lennie’s cookbook is brought to life in this unique audiobook. This audiobook features seven recipes from the book, cooked live in Lennie’s kitchen, as well as an exclusive Q&A with Jessie and Lennie taking you behind the scenes of Table Manners family stories and anecdotes taking you through their favourite easy, complex, summer, Christmas and Jewish-ish recipes.