Wines of Spain (Mitchell Beazley Wine Guides Series)
Author: Jan Read
The Wines of Spain, first published in 1982, was soon recognized as the indispensable book on the subject. Spanish wines are now more popular abroad than ever, but in four short years there have been sweeping changes, both in the vineyards and in introducing modern technology to wineries, while Spain's entry into the EEC has resulted in radical revisions of standards and labelling.
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Cather's Kitchens: Foodways in Literature and Life
Author: Roger Welsch
Roger and Linda Welsch matched references from Willa Cather's writing with recipes they collected from Cather family recipe files, from other period cookbooks, and from old-time ethnic cooks still living in the Bohemian tradition. Cather's Kitchens comes as close as possible to the precise recipes Cather had in mind and memory as she wrote.
Publishers Weekly
This rambling paean to Willa Cather and the plain food of the Nebraska frontier gathers excerpts from Cather's novels, and recipes from regional archives and cookbooks found in the Cather family kitchen library. The loosely organized ``receipts'' include biscuits, apple and potato dumplings, watermelon-rind preserves, corn soup, lemon pie, molasses beer, as well as a technique for curing 100 pounds of ham. The husband-and-wife authors (he is an associate professor of English and anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; she is a freelance writer) acknowledge that many of the recipesregarding preparation and derivationare incomplete or confusing (``The only guarantee . . . is the assurance of our best wishes. Consider them to be . . . mysteries rather than maps''). Neither, unfortunately, do the Welsches demonstrate the simplicity of expression that they so admire in Cather's writing. Readers are likely to be left with their curiosity and appetites unsatisfied. (May 11)
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