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  • The Wandering Vine

    Wine, the Romans and Me

    WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS DEBUT DRINK BOOKOF THE YEAR 2019WINNER OF THE LOUIS ROEDERER INTERNATIONAL WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018'Wine is alive, ageing and changing, but it's also a triumph over death. These grapes should rot. Instead they ferment. What better magic potion could there be, to convey us to the past?'Impelled by a dual thirst, for wine and for knowledge, ... Read more

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  • Forks in the Road

    Michelin, the Motorcar, and the Invention of Destination Dining

    A cultural history of the Michelin Guide-and how a tire-selling scheme revolutionized food, France, and fine dining as we know it.The Michelin star is the most recognizable, prestigious, bitterly coveted honor in all of dining. It's known to drive restaurants to the brink of perfection, hordes of tourists to their doors, and their ambitious chefs to madness. But the Michelin Guide began as a ... Read more

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    Forks in the Road

    Michelin, the Motorcar, and the Invention of Destination Dining

    by Nina Caplan ...

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    6 hours 40 min

    A cultural history of the Michelin Guide—and how a tire-selling scheme revolutionized food, France, and fine dining as we know it.The Michelin star is the most recognizable, prestigious, bitterly coveted honor in all of dining. It's known to drive restaurants to the brink of perfection, hordes of tourists to their doors, and their ambitious chefs to madness. But the Michelin Guide began as a ... Read more

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    Words of ancient wisdom from some of the world’s most seminal textsThe Wisdom of the Torah is an instruction in the central beliefs of three world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But by observing the Torah, or the Hebrew Bible, as a collected work of multiple authors spanning generations, the modern reader can look beyond its fundamental instruction. In these works, readers find many ... Read more

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  • Grandi Vini

    An Opinionated Tour of Italy's 89 Finest Wines

    Travel through the Italian countryside with Joseph Bastianich in search of the country’s eighty-nine finest wines.**Joseph Bastianich is steeped in Italian wines like no one else. Not only is he the co-owner, with Mario Batali, of some of America’s premier Italian restaurants, but he also produces wine on four separate estates—three in Italy—and is responsible for bringing Eataly, the ... Read more

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  • God in Your Body

    Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice

    Your body is the place where heaven and earth meet.The greatest spiritual achievement is not transcending the body but joining body and spirit together. But to do this, you must break through assumptions that draw boundaries around the Infinite and wake up to the body as the site of holiness itself.This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive treatment of the body in Jewish spiritual ... Read more

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  • In Vino Duplicitas

    The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire

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    As seen on ABC's The Con, an "engrossing account of wine fraud and forgery" that duped some of the biggest names in the elite world of wine collecting ( Wall Street Journal)In 2002, Rudy Kurniawan, an unknown twentysomething, burst into the privileged world of ultrafine wines. Blessed with a virtuoso palate, and with a seemingly limitless supply of coveted bottles, Kurniawan quickly became the ... Read more

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  • Bordeaux

    A Consumer's Guide to the World's Finest Wines

    With this fourth edition of the classic that launched his career, Parker strives to maintain his unprecedented independence, objectivity, clarity, and enthusiasm in reporting on the vintages of Bordeaux.Parker has not only added tastings for the vintages in the intervening years since the last edition, but he has also retasted and reevaluated a majority of the earlier vintages. His accessible and ... Read more

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  • How Judaism Became a Religion

    An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

    Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality--or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period--and why Jewish thinkers have ... Read more

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  • Vino Italiano Buying Guide - Revised and Updated

    The Ultimate Quick Reference to the Great Wines of Italy

    From the Barolos of Piedmont to the Brunellos of Tuscany, Italian wines offer an unparalleled range of tempting and unique choices. But how can you be sure to find the right bottle for your taste? In this completely revised and updated edition of the ever-popular pocketsize buying guide, Italian wine experts Joseph Bastianich and David Lynch show you the way.Vino Italiano Buying Guide—Revised and ... Read more

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  • In Search of Bacchus

    Wanderings in the Wonderful World of Wine Tourism

    From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Judgment of Paris and To Cork or Not To Cork comes a delightful, entertaining, and informative exploration of the thriving world of wine tourism.George M. Taber set out on the wine lover's ultimate dream: a journey to the twelve most beautiful and fascinating wine-producing regions around the globe. In Search of Bacchus chronicles that ... Read more

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  • Your Word Is Fire

    The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer

    The power of prayer for spiritual renewal and personal transformation is at the core of all religious traditions. Because Hasidic literature contains no systematic manual of contemplative prayer, the texts included in this volume have been culled from many sources. From the teachings of the Hasidic Masters—the Ba'al Shem Tov, the Maggid Dov Baer of Meidzyrzec, and their immediate disciples—the ... Read more

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