Join in the smoothie craze at home! From old favorites to new combinations, these 150 recipes include such fantastic fruit flavors as Purely Peach and Coconut Mango. Readers will learn everything they need to know to whip up fruit, da...

A chocoholics compendium of more than sixty tempting recipes from chocolatiers from around the world features such concoctions as Lavender-Pistachio Hot Chocolate, Maple-Whiskey Hot Chocolate Toddy, Nutella Hot Chocolate, and many oth...

"A marvelous journey through the mad, manic, seductive subculture of wine and wine lovers." –Susan Orlean"The Kitchen Confidential of wine." –Madeline Puckette, Wine Folly"I loved this book." -Mary ...

Quirk's popular Field Guide series has taught readers how to identify stains, gestures, fruits and vegetables, meats, and even power tools. Now it's time to kick back and relax with Field Guide to Cocktails. Here are recipes for more ...

Appreciating Whisky offers the reader detailed, structured knowledge on how to develop his or her palate for whisky. Readers are first taken on a detailed tour of how whisky is produced, what each of its constituents and each of the s...

Wine is truly the world in a glass, without the travel hassles. However, it can be overwhelming with differences in wine terminology and traditions. Wine for Beginners takes the guesswork out of any wine occasion, allowing you to deco...

Climate change is changing the way winemakers make wine. Once temperate grape-growing regions are growing hotter, challenging winemakers to produce high quality wines in unfamiliar ways. Many of the negative effects of climate change ...

"I can assure you of this: nothing tastes better than your homemade batch of kombucha."--From the Foreword by Rana Chang, Owner/Founder, House KombuchaGet your kombucha brew on! Fresh, fragrant, and fizzy, home brewed kombuc...

His prose has a pleasing, gentle flow, with eddies of humor and yeastiness; Osborne displays a hungry mind....He takes the showboats down a peg, but he isn't a self-conscious iconoclast, just an odd fellow looking for a mouthful of ha...