Savvy Shopper: All You Need to Know about the Food You Buy
Author: Rose Princ
Inspired by her weekly column in "Telegraph Weekend", this is Rose Prince's guide to buying the tastiest, highest-quality food with peace of mind and a clear conscience. Following the success of "The New English Kitchen", Rose Prince's eye-opening guide to shopping, cooking and eating in a cost-effective and environmentally conscious way is a must-have reference book. Taking the best of Rose's journalism, this guide encourages readers to look for the right qualities in the food they buy, to ask the right questions of food producers and retailers, and to eat better—and with greater awareness of the provenance of their meals. With its easy-to-read format and listings of essential stockists and markets, "The Savvy Shopper" is absolutely essential for anyone who cares about how they shop, cook and eat.
New interesting textbook: Belleza al minuto or Everything Sugar Free Cookbook
Andrea Immer's 2004 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone
Author: Andrea Immer
The Ultimate Buying Guide to America’s Most Popular and Accessible Wines
The first guide to buying wine that grades the top-selling premium wines in stores and restaurants: popular supermarket brands, trade-up brands, and super-premium labels. Andrea Immer, one of America’s foremost wine authorities, surveyed thousands of wine professionals and ordinary consumers, who assess what really matters most–taste and value for the money. She also provides:
•Best-of lists: The top performing wines
•Immer Best Bets: Andrea Immer’s top picks for every major buying dilemma, from inexpensive crowd pleasers to blue-chip choices for business entertaining
•“The Top Fifty Wines You’re Not Drinking”: These wines are less well known, but offer good availability and great value
•Immersion Course: Quick and easy label-reading lessons to give you instant buying expertise
•Kitchen Countertop (and Fridge) Survivor™ grades: How long will the wine keep after it’s opened? Now you’ll know the wines’ “freshness window” after opening.
Publishers Weekly
Author of the hugely popular Great Wine Made Simple and a wine and spirits column for Esquire, Immer scores another hit with this annual update of her wine buying guide. The author, who serves as the Dean of Wine Studies at the French Culinary Institute and is an accredited Master Sommelier, made her name by combining extensive wine knowledge with a friendly, consumer-oriented attitude. In this book, she puts both skills to use to answer the two most common wine questions: "What are the good, cheap wines? And which wines are really worth the splurge?" The 600 individual wine entries-200 of which are new-focus on wines that are readily available in stores and restaurants and provide practical information about how long the wine is likely to survive after opening. A wine that tastes better after being open for 2-3 days, for example, gets a B+. Immer also provides numeric rankings for wines by taste and value, and leaves space for wine-lovers to make their own tasting notes. (Several of the selections were suggested by online reviewers through Immer's Web site.) The book also contains 20 pages of best-of lists, sorted by grape, taste, value and popularity. Her overall advice for 2004? Drink up the Shiraz, the Pinot Grigio and the Riesling! (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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