Sparkling wine is great for celebrating, but pour it into a cocktail and the real party begins. Tiny Bubbles stirs up 40 refreshing concoctions using Champagne, Prosecco, Cava, and other bubbly wines. Drinks include favorites like Mimosasand Champagne Cocktails, plus wonderful new inventions like the homage to maraschino cherries, the Marasco Fizz, and the sweet-tart Melagrana with its …
Fabulous Fizz: Choosing Champagne and Sparkling Wine for Every Occasion
Choose champagne and sparkling wine with confidence. In this book, Alice King explores how fizz is made and where it comes from in the perfect introduction to one of life’s greatest pleasures. She divides the wines into light and elegant aperitifs, medium-bodied for every day and richer wines for special occasions and suggest wines for every social gathering. …
World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine, Revised and Updated Edition
The first in-depth guide to sparkling wines of the world from champagne to California, Italy to Australia and beyond. A facinating first section describes the history of sparkling wine and proves beyond any doubt that it was the English rather then the French who first produced a fizzy wine. The main body of the encylopedia is devoted to …
The quintessential guide to the luxuries of the gods, Champagne & Caviar & Other Delicacies makes the most extravagant foods accessible to every food lover by explaining the best ways to find, select, order, prepare and enjoy the world’s most exquisite culinary indulgences. Opulent color spreads present everything from champagne, caviar, and chocolate to foie gras, smoked …
When the evening’s winding down, and it’s time to digest the meal, relax your mind, and get ready for a good night’s sleep, there’s nothing more delightful than an after-dinner drink. Here is the ideal guide to choosing and enjoying that nightcap, and it covers not only the traditional brandy, cognac, and port, but exotic and contemporary choices, …
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously declared, “Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.” The author of the latest entry in our Instant Expert series could not agree more. Champagne celebrates the world’s most luxurious drink, providing expert insight into all aspects of champagne production, from the various growing regions, types of grape, and …
The Bubbly Bar: Champagne and Sparkling Wine Cocktails for Every Occasion
Emphasizing intense flavor combinations, fresh ingredients, and minimal effort, this guide to mixed drinks using champagne and sparkling wine includes recipes for classic drinks like the Kir Royale and the Bellini, as well as the more contemporary Ginger Title: The Bubbly BarAuthor: Hunt, Maria C.Publisher: Random House IncPublication Date: 2009/08/25Number of Pages: 112Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: …
Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of “invented traditions.” In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the nature of French national identity but also over the extent to which diverse and sometimes hostile provincial communities became …
Through an introduction to the Champagne region, the history of the wine and the development of the champagne method, this book traces champagne’s beginnings as a still wine and, via the appointment of a young monk, Dom Pierre Perignon, as Cellarer at the Abbey of Hautvillers, its evolution into the sparkling wine known today. An examination of wine …
The School of Sophisticated Drinking: An Intoxicating History of Seven Spirits
Wherever and whenever people have been found talking, they have been found drinking: an age-old pastime with an equally storied history. Alcohol and civilization have developed in close quarters, sometimes supporting each other and sometimes getting in each other’s way.The School of Sophisticated Drinking, which began as an ongoing series of lectures at Berlin’s legendary Victoria Bar in …