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This accessible reference guide provides all the facts you need to enjoy classic drinks to the full. The book contains a review of the best wines of the world, with advice on what to look for when tasting a wine, and suggestions for choosing wines to serve with food. It then explores the history and production of beer, with lively descriptions of all the main types, such as bitter, brown ale, lager and stout. Finally, the book looks at spirits, liqueurs and fortified wines, including gin, vodka, whisky, Cointreau, Southern Comfort, Marsala, sherry, port and vermouth. Combining informative text with over 1500 glorious photographs, this is an essential guide to alcoholic drinks...
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Made from grains, molasses, potatoes, and even grapes, vodka is the traditional beverage in eastern Europe and Scandinavia, but has recently become ultra-fashionable elsewhere in the world. This extensive guide highlights vodkas both from the traditional producing countries—Russia, Poland, Finland, Sweden, and the Baltic States—as well as newer distilleries worldwide, from Kazakstan to New Zealand. Tasting notes on the different styles and flavors are included along with information on the origins, history, and regions of vodka production. Dozens of classic and refreshing new recipes round out this comprehensive guide to one of the world’s most popular liquors. ...
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Using Charles Darwin’s survey of emotions as a starting point, Stuart Walton’s A Natural History of Human Emotions examines the history of each of our core emotions—fear, anger, disgust, sadness, jealousy, contempt, shame, embarrassment, surprise, and happiness—and how these emotions have influenced both cultural and social history. We learn that primitive fear served as the engine of religious belief, while a desire for happiness led to humankind’s first musings on achieving a perfect utopia. Challenging the notion that human emotion has remained constant, A Natural History of Human Emotions explains why, in the last 250 years, society has changed its unwritten rules for what can be expressed in public and in private. Like An Intimate History of Humanity and Near a Thousand Tables, Walton’s A Natural History of Human Emotions is a provocative examination of human feelings and a fascinating take on how emotions have shaped our past. ...
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