A Tasting Course

Taste your way to whisky wisdom.The best way to find out about whisky is by drinking it. Perfect for the whisky curious, this truly hands-on handbook helps you to discover your own personal whisky sty

A fresh take on the world of wine, showing you what you need to know and exploding wine myths. Can't smell honeysuckle or taste tobacco? So what. This book focuses on you, helping you to discover whic

Giving readers the confidence to discover, buy, and drink wines that they'll enjoy, Wine: A Tasting Course helps you explore and develop your palate in your own time and at your own pace. Offering a v

A practical course in learning how to appreciate wine. It features step-by-step pictures that show you what other courses only tell you and the tasting notes throughout help build your confidence.

There is no more inspiring place to buy, drink or study wine than at Berry Bros & Rudd's historic building in St James's, London. And now you can explore the pleasures of wine through the book pro

Radar Meteorology: A First Course introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the technology and application of radar in 21st century meteorology and atmospheric sciences. The book, designed to accompany university courses in radar meteorology, will have three distinct parts. In the first part, the reader will be introduced to electromagnetic wave propagation and radar design considerations. This part will then develop the techniques used to retrieve the key quantities central to radar meteorology: the effective radar reflectivity factor, the Doppler radial velocity and spectral width, and polarization variables. The second part will focus on operational meteorological applications, including data quality control, precipitation estimation and hydrometeorological applications, warm season mid-latitude severe weather, cold season hazardous weather, and tropical cyclones. The third part of the book will focus on research applications, including research

Whether it is in Madrid's cafés or in Barcelona's fish markets, van den Brink takes you on a trip through Spain where tasting and smelling are the key occupations.

From swashbuckling pirates and Caribbean sugar plantations to rum punch and trendy tiki bars, rum is one of our best loved and most historic liquors.The Short Course in Rum began, naturally, as a look

New & Expanded, With Nearly 350 Bourbons Including the Major Producers, Craft Distillers, and Independent Bottlers! The Bourbon Tasting Notebook is a handy logbook for any bourbon enthusiast. With

Winner of the Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature."When a war ends it does not go away," my mother says."It hides inside us . . . Just forget!" But I do no

Whether you're a brew master or just a beer lover who loves to throw a party, this complete kit is for you. Carlo Devito'sHow to Host a Beer Tasting Party contains everything you'll need to host a bee

Mountain Tasting gathers a wide cross section of haiku and a selection of the diaries of the wandering Japanese poet, Santoka (1882-1940). Santoka lived his life in the long zen hermit wandering poeti

A collection of one hundred recipes that showcase the best from New Mexico's home kitchens. It includes such recipes as: green and red chile stews, albondigas (meatballs), carne adovada (pork braised

Here's a fun way to discover the nuances of artisan beers from lagers and ales to porters and stouts. Tasting profiles from the booklet get the ball rolling—they break down beer into style categories

"Alice Vollenweider's 'Culinary Journey' through Italy fuses anecdotes with recipes, a winning combination."?Times Literary SupplementAlice Vollenweider's Tasting Italy is at once a travelogue, a cook

While anthropologists often have been accused of failing to "study up," this book turns an anthropological lens on an elite activity – wine tasting. Five million people a year, from the US and abroad,

Seaburg, a journalist who has synesthesia, details her experiences with the phenomenon, as well as those of many famous people who see colors in music, taste foods when speaking, or experience other b

Patterned after the successful Books to Check Out series, this clever journal is perfect for novice and veteran oenophiles alike who want to keep track of their favorite red, white, ros , sparkling,

Clive S. Michelsen, Sweden’s reigning wine pundit, provides “a thought provoking new addition to the arena of wine-tasting study” with his book Tasting and Grading Wine, which gives readers “original