There's a world of words to describe wine, but only seven you need to know to understand it. Wine is one of the most written about beverages in our history, with dictionaries dedicated solely to the words and phrases used to describe it in the ever-expanding world of self-professed wine connoisseurs. Now, the "great demystifier of wine” (Booklist), highly acclaimed wine expert Matt Kramer, explains in a lucid, accessible and conversational style that there are only seven words that you really need to remember to enjoy wine with anyone.

Seventeen-year-old Hailey is out to solve the mysterious death of her parents and discovers a shocking truth that changes her life overnight. The plot unfolds in Bakersfield, California, and travels all the way to Chennai, India. While on a visit to Chennai, India, she finds clues regarding her parents’ sudden death. Following these clues, Hailey finds herself in dangerous situations. In her journey, Hailey is accompanied by her boyfriend, Andrew, and her friend, Emily. After Hailey finds her true origin and moves closer to the truth, she understands that vengeance is what she is after. On this journey, readers will experience a bundle of emotions giving them chills and making them cling onto their seats by taking a deep dive into fiction while finding the true taste of vengeance.

Secret recipes for backyard and professional grilling, smoking, barbecuing enthusiasts.Do you want to impress family and guests with your barbecuing skills?There’s nothing better, on a warm and sunny afternoon, than meat slowly cooking on a barbecue. Gathering family and friends around to share in your masterfully prepared feast is one of the great pleasures of summertime.Whether you're looking for a starter’s guide, seeking some smoking ideas, or just trying to find mouth-watering recipes, you'll be ready to start BBQ!“Okay, umm, what now??Here are Some Recipes to Try! Ultimate Smoked Chicken Wings Iconic Japanese BBQ Mune or Chicken Breast Yakitori Kebabs Awesome Blueberry BBQ Sauce Super Pork Sausage with Onions Delightful Beef Brisket Fantastic Grilled Beer Brats Great BBQ Sauce Happy BBQ Sauce Use these recipes, and start cooking today!You have at your fingertips the tool you need to be known as not only the grill master of your group but now the flavornator!It's packed with a wealth of information and instructions so you can Master your Grilling and BBQ recipes.

The Real Taste of Jamaica takes food lovers and cooks the world over into Jamaican homes, kitchen and restaurants to sample the full range of native cuisine prepared by local housewives, cooks, restaurateurs and roadside 'jerkies'. Enid Donaldson presents her dishes with flair and imagination, delicately spiced and flavoured with curry, scotch bonnet peppers, jerk sauce, pimento, nutmeg, rum and a dash of typical Jamaican humour. 'Stamp and Go', 'Dip and Fall Back', 'Mannish Water' and 'Matrimony' conjure up images that do not disappoint when tasted. Traditional recipes are included for those who would like to recapture childhood memories. The section, 'Ole Time Someting', contributed by noted journalist and talk-show host Barbara Gloudon, captures the memories and magic of Jamaica kitchens and homes of yesteryear. 'Out of Many, One Pot' aptly describes Jamaica's culinary motto, capturing the rich and exciting blend of Native Indian, Spanish, British, African, East Indian, Chinese, Jewish and Lebanese cuisines.

2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts

The Whisky Cabinet is written for today's whisky drinker and navigates straight to the centre of what really matters: enjoying some of the most delicious whisky in the world. It does it in language that is easily understood. There is a seemingly countless number of distilleries making more whiskies than ever before, The Whisky Cabinet focuses on top-quality whisky distilleries to help you build your whisky cabinet.

This anthology of short stories was seeded from the one that gets place of pride as the title story. The lockdown that followed as a result of a hitherto unknown virus (Covid-19 of course!) created a fertile ground for more stories to spawn, and before long a collection waiting to fall into the hands of a willing reader was born. The stories have a languid pace that allows plenty of room for subtlety, but they don’t fall into a specific genre or theme. Some have an essential thread of humour running through them, while others pack in a pleasant element of surprise. And some may leave a hint of an uneasy aftertaste. These, the writer recommends, are best relished like an exotic aperitif! Bon Appetit!

The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: in 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500. The decision stuck on appeal. More important than the amount, though the largest ever awarded by an American court in restitution for slavery, was the fact that any money was awarded at all. By the time the case was decided, Ward had become a wealthy businessman and a pioneer of convict leasing in the South. Wood's son later became a prominent Chicago lawyer, and she went on to live until 1912. McDaniel's book is an epic tale of a black woman who survived slavery twice and who achieved more than merely a moral victory over one of her oppressors. Above all, Sweet Taste of Liberty is a portrait of an extraordinary individual as well as a searing reminder of the lessons of her story, which establish beyond question the connections between slavery and the prison system that rose in its place.

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