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  • The History of Texas Wine

    From Spanish Roots to Rising Star

    Sample the untold history of Texas's wine industry in this book filled with fascinating stories and photos.Spanish colonists may have come to Texas to spread Christianity, but under visionary Father Fray Garcia, they stayed and raised grapes. Later immigrants brought their own burgundy tastes of home, creating a unique wine country. When a North American pest threatened European vines, it was ... Read more

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  • The Drunken Botanist

    The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks: 10th Anniversary Edition

    by Amy Stewart ...
    The New York Times-bestselling guide to botany and booze celebrates its 10th anniversary with an updated edition— now including a guide to planting your very own cocktail garden to go with more than fifty drink recipes. This fascinating, go-to text about the plants that make our drinks is the ideal gift book for every cocktail aficionado, the perfect drinks book for every plant-lover.Sake began ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Flavour Principle

    Enticing Your Senses With Food and Drink

    Every great dish has a centre of gravity, a flavour or essence that pulls together other ingredients into a coherent and compelling whole. Indian curry spices, fiery Thai chilis, lemony citrus, smoky barbecue rubs—these are all flavours that we adore and that get our taste buds asking for more. Flavour is, quite simply, what makes us passionate about food and drink. At last, here is a cookbook ... Read more

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  • Kings of Texas

    The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

    by Don Graham ...
    Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience."-Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove"This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, ... Read more

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  • True Taste

    The Seven Essential Wine Words

    by Matt Kramer ...
    There's a world of words to describe wine, but only seven you need to know to understand it.Wine is one of the most written about beverages in our history, with dictionaries dedicated solely to the words and phrases used to describe it in the ever-expanding world of self-professed wine connoisseurs. Inside this informative guide, you will discover:New paradigms to better understand the wine worldA ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Tequila Guidance in Mixology, Pairing & Enjoying Life’s Finer Things

    Tequila. Much can be stated for this spirit. Shots and thoughts of seaside beach resorts may come to mind. Others may think of a worm floating in a bottle and that tequila is only good in a margarita. This book is aimed at correcting all those misconceptions about this wonderful and versatile beverage. Derived from Agave, a distant form of this spirit was first developed by the Ancient Aztecs, and ... Read more

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  • Tasting the Cape - Guide to the Cape Winelands

    Tasting the Cape is a guide to the world-renowned Cape winelands, a travelling companion and more. Filled with insights from one of South Africa's most influential food and wine critics, the book offers the wine lover a new and accessible approach to South African wines by grouping the featured estates by character - the formal types, the wacky ones and the quiet achievers. Tasting the Cape will ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Understanding Vineyard Soils

    by Robert White ...
    Terroir connotes a sense of place that imparts a distinctive character to wine. A central component of terroir is the soil and its immediate surroundings. Thus, an understanding of the basic properties of soils and how they function as a "living skin" on the earth's surface is of fundamental importance to grape growers and winemakers. Stripped of scientific jargon, Understanding Vineyard Soils ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Provence Food and Wine

    The Art of Living

    "Almost as much guide book as it is cookbook . . . the authors dive into the ingredients unique to Provencal cuisine and the history of the region." — KitchnProvence, the beautiful region that sits at the scenic crossroads of southern France, the Italian Alps, and the Mediterranean, has long been an area of historical import and distinct culture. But above all else, it is known as a producer of ... Read more

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  • Had a Glass 2015

    Top 100 Wines Under $20

    by James Nevison ...
    Series series Had a Glass Top 100 Wines
    The Globe and Mail best-seller, and #1 best-selling wine guide in British Columbia, is back!James Nevison's annual, unpretentious guide for everyday wine is back, with the top 100 wallet-friendly wines for 2015.In this expertly selected collection, you will find the very best value for your money across white, pink, red, sparkling, and fortified wines. Get the scoop on $10 wines that taste like ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • After The Boom In Tombstone And Jerome, Arizona

    Decline In Western Resource Towns

    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas—Tombstone and Jerome—historian Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecting the process of bust itself—the reasons and manners in which these towns declined as the mining booms ended. Tombstone was the site of one of the great silver bonanzas of the nineteenth century, a boom that started in the late 1870s and was over by ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Texas Hill Country Wineries

    Series series Images of Modern America
    The Texas Hill Country wineries have roots as old as any around. Texas grapes grow in soils made from ancient sea deposits, similar to the grape-growing regions of Europe. Texas wine culture arrived in the 1600s with Spanish missionaries who settled and planted vineyards in El Paso del Norte. The 1800s brought German and Italian immigrant farmers to Texas; they considered wine a staple of everyday ... Read more

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