Quick – how many abbeys are there in the U.S.? The answer is “way more than you’d think!” Abbeys – their contemporary ways of life, histories, and (most importantly) culinary delights – are the subject of Madeline Scherb’s first book, A Taste of Heaven: A Guide to Food and Drink Made by Monks and Nuns….
Category: book reviews
Does the World Need Another Wine Intro Book? (Book Review: Drink This)
Well… does it? I ask myself this question whenever I receive a review copy of a wine book, which has been… a lot lately, it seems. So here comes four-time James Beard award-winner Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, and her new book Drink This: Wine Made Simple. Another entry in a (very) crowded field. It also happens…
Wine Humor: Doug Pike’s “Gone With The Wine”
I was recently contacted by Doug Pike, the cartoonist whose wine-related humor has been published on the subscription-only portion of eRobertParker.com for about four years now. Doug has released a collection titled Gone With The Wine, which pulls together about 100 of the cartoons that appeared on Parker’s website (Parker supplies the book’s foreword). Doug…
Zen Wine: David White’s Sippin’ On Top Of The World
I seem to be in ‘book mode’ the last week or two. I’m a bit of a bookworm, so it’s fun for me to mess around at the intersection of wine and the printed word. I still don’t own an eReader device, by the way – I prefer Book 1.0 – you know, the kind…