Títulos en Vino y bebidas

Cedric Dickens, neto do escritor Charles Dickens, classifica os bebedores dos romances do avô: daqueles capazes de beber um Tâmisa inteiro aos que não dispensam um grog para celebrar a amizade.

O chef catalão Ferran Adriá fez maravilhas na cozinha de invenção de seu restaurante na Costa Brava. E seus achados de "desconstrução" ainda hoje influenciam a alta gastronomia.

Amor em tempos de murais. Frida Kahlo preparava comidas mexicanas para o comunista Diego Rivera, quando este pintava contundentes cenas em território imperialista: a Ford de Detroit.

Com um mar de molho de peixe fermentado, o gourmand Apicius empresta seu nome para receitas romanas reunidas no pioneiro De Re Coquinaria. No Monte Érice siciliano, marzipãs nos levam aos céus.

Uma das bebidas preferidas de Ernest Hemingway era o mojito, do Floridita, na Cuba onde morou. Mas foi com Mâcon da Borgonha que embalou uma viagem pela França com Scott Fitzgerald.

No cardápio ateniense, sempre há café grego (não turco) e ouzo. E quando se fala em vinho, cada país destila seus ditados, quase sempre na base de In vino veritas, "no vinho, a verdade".

COM SEUS SALTOS TEMPORAIS E GEOGRÁFICOS, E UMA INTENSA CONJUNÇÃO DE CULTURAS, HISTÓRIAS E MITOS, ESTÁ ALTURA DAS OBRAS CAPAZES DE ORGANIZAR NOSSAS EXPERIÊNCIAS EM GRANDES NARRATIVAS HISTÓRICAS.

Este audiolivro foi criado para todos os interessados em chás e seus benefícios a saúde. O guia abrange: cura pelas ervas, antiestresse, depressão ansiedade, cólicas, dores do dia a dia, cansaço, dormir bem, fortalecer o sistema imunológico, sabedoria milenar. Oferece ainda um glossário de ervas e chás. Seu guia de referência e consulta.

Cask Strength is more than a history book. In it, Mike Gerrard, an award-winning travel and drinks writer, investigates the making, buying, and selling of barrels and details how drinks like wine, tequila, rum, cognac, and others are enhanced by specific kinds of barrel production.

From an amateur affair made by retirees to a multi-million-pound industry with quality to rival Champagne, the rise of English wine has been one of the more unexpected wine stories of the past 30 years. In this illuminating and accessible account, award-winning drinks writer Henry Jeffreys takes you behind the scenes of the English wine revolution. It's a story about changing climate and technology but most of all it's about men and women with vision, determination and more than a little bloody-mindedness.

All tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result of collaborations among agave entrepreneurs, botanists, distillers, beverage distributors, bartenders, and more. How these groups come together in this "spirits world" is the subject of this fascinating new book by the acclaimed ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan and the pioneering restauranteur David Suro Piñera.

Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon tells the fascinating tale of the Buffalo Trace Distillery, from the time of the earliest explorations of Kentucky to the present day. Author and award-winning spirits expert F. Paul Pacult takes listeners on a journey through history that covers the American Revolutionary War, US Civil War, two World Wars, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.

Reflections of a Vintner recounts the lessons learned, relationships forged, and observations made from an insider's nearly 50-year journey through the burgeoning wine industry in Napa Valley. From the mid-'70s, when there were less than 50 wineries, to the present, with over 800, Tor Kenward shares his recollections as the region became a world-class wine destination.

Rum has been the drink of rebels since the Old World. Now, there's a new generation of rebels—the business women curating the taste of today's best rum companies. Rum Rebels is a story of female empowerment in a traditionally male-dominated industry. Each chapter of Rum Rebels profiles women in leadership, their rum, and the perfect cocktail pairing. Alongside women leaders and pioneers, this worldwide master class explores everything from palates to aging, providing first-hand stories from today's leading rum distilleries.

I "Et glas rødvin hver dag" peger Erik Olaf-Hansen på en række vine, der har særligt gode egenskaber. Han mener nemlig, der er al mulig grund til at nyde et glas vin hver dag. Erik Olaf-Hansen (1914-2004) er bedst kendt som Politikens mangeårige vinskribent. Han kastede sig straks efter studentereksamen over journalistikken og blev i 1945 ansat ved Politiken, hvor han skrev om sundhed og sygdom.

The brewing of beer is regarded by many as a more or less mechanical operation, yet there is much more to it. Great is its debt of gratitude to the labours of scientific men. The aim of this work is therefore to show the number of scientific investigations of the first order of importance, which have given rise to the brewing industry. Alfred Chaston Chapman (1869-1932) was a British chemist, whose work was especially focused on brewing and fermentation. In 1920, he was elected into the Royal Society.

Camille Di Maio's novel The First Emma is the true story of Emma Koehler, whose tycoon husband, Otto, was killed in a crime-of-the-century murder by one of his two mistresses - both also named Emma - and her unlikely rise as CEO of a brewing empire during Prohibition. When a chance to tell her story to a young teetotaler arises, a tale unfolds of love, war, beer, and the power of women. 

In this book, Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. He takes listeners on a world tour of whiskey and the science of flavor, stopping along the way at distilleries in Kentucky, New York, Texas, Ireland, and Scotland. Arnold puts the spotlight on a new generation of distillers, plant breeders, and local farmers who are bringing back long-forgotten grain flavors and creating new ones in pursuit of terroir.

Discover the underdog story of the improbable rise of small-batch distilling in America. This bracingly written, fast-paced work traces the relationship of Americans to spirits such as bourbon, scotch, vodka, gin, and rum. And it presents the full story of a plucky band of entrepreneurs who disrupted the nation's conception of how those libations could appear and taste - and how much they could cost.

With a specific focus on the United States of America, the methods that we use to discuss literature and other art are applied to wine-making and wine culture. The book explores the debates about how to evaluate wine and the problems inherent in numerical scoring as well as evaluative tasting notes, whether winemakers can be artists, the discourse in wine culture involving natural wine and biodynamic farming, as well as how people judge what makes a wine great.