Wine People or Cook Tell

Wine People

Author: Stephen Brook

This is a collection of thirty portraits of individuals involved in all aspects of wine productions and consumption, superbly written by one of the most respected writers on wine in the world today. It is by no means restricted to Proprietors and producers, but includes wine merchants and traders, wine writers, and a sommelier. People are attracted to wine for all sorts of reasons. Some inherit properties and perpetuate the skills and traditions handed down to them, others start form scratch creating wine estates or transforming existing properties in the wish to improve diversity; the grand and the modest, the rich and the struggling, the standard bearers of tradition and bold innovators, old men and young women. Every person has been interviewed, and as far as possible ideas are presented in the words of the individual. The parade of personalities is deliberately international. But even so it has proved impossible in a book of this limited size to include individuals from every single wine-producing region of significance. The central focus of the book remains European, and rightly so, but voices are also heard from as far away as Oregon and New Zealand. Accompanying these wonderful essays are photographs of chateaux, cellars and bottles and enchanting line drawings of the protagonist.

Author Biography: Stephen Brook is a contributing editor for Decanter, in which his writing on wine and travel appears regularly. Among his many books are Sauternes and other sweet Wines of Bordeaux and LA.. Days, LA.. Nights. He lives in London.

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Cook & Tell: No-Fuss Recipes and Gourmet Surprises

Author: Karyl Bannister

If you're a food lover with a secret file of best-loved recipes and you like real food from real kitchens, it's time to meet Karyl Bannister, the creator of America's favorite home-cooking newsletter, COOK & TELL, and her far-flung subscribers. With a no-nonsense approach, Bannister has chosen her personal favorites and those of her readers. From the elegant to the just plain delicious, COOK & TELL contains recipes for dining duos, fast family suppers, old-fashioned Sunday dinners, holiday celebrations, and more. Filled with folksy anecdotes from Bannister and her COOK & TELL contingent, the book is like an agreeable chat and recipe swap with an old friend.

Stanton Peele

"Fletcher avoids ideological pitfalls and is true to scientific research" (—Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., author of Love and Addiction and The Truth About Addiction and Recovery

Jasper White

Cook & Tell features simple and very good recipes, food I would like to eat, with an occasional burst of genius.

Gene Burns

Karyl Bannister's Cook & Tell is like a window on the soul of American home cooking.

Pam Anderson

Cook & Tell gives me recipes I want, practical tips I need, and stories that connect me with the larger community of real, everyday cooks. I need two copies of this book – one to get messy, the other to curl up with.

Jane & Michael Stern

Cook & Tell contains a bounty of honest recipes for dishes real people like to prepare for friends and family. Beyond good things to eat, it contains a fetching group portrait of America's true foodies – not trend-setters or celebrity chefs, but real people who worry about making tender pork chops for supper and moist chocolate cake for birthday parties.

Mark B. Sobell

"A compendium of hope for those who have concerns about their own drinking or that of someone close to them." (—Mark B. Sobell, Ph.D., Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University)

Publishers Weekly

After sharing amateur family-style recipes for 20 years in a newsletter of the same title, Bannister compiles her favorites in book form, garnishing them with homey anecdotes, tips from the newsletter's subscribers and her own appealing miniature illustrations. Many of the recipes are named for the subscribers who submitted them Betty's Quick Coffee Cake, Angie's Cold Broccoli giving the book a disarming sewing-circle feel. Bannister's recipes are unremarkable, but quick and undemanding; they typically exhort the reader to not worry too much about technique. Some combine wholesome, fresh ingredients, but most make use of commercially prepared foods such as the canned vegetables or sauces easily found in mainstream grocery stores. Many of the recipes are classics, such as the Simple Shepherd's Pie, Spareribs and Sauerkraut and Cranberry-Glazed Pork Roast. Desserts and baked goods are the strongest offerings, with some truly outstanding, like the Linzertorte, Trifle and Irish Oat Scones. Bannister's paramount assumption is that quickly executing a hot meal for the family is the overriding demand on the average home cook; the success of many of these recipes thus relies on somewhat diminished expectations. The planned six-city author tour may help her overcome slumming cosmopolitans' fear of canned goods. Agent, Doe Coover. B&w illus. (May 17) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Cook & Tell is the monthly newsletter Bannister has written for the last 20 years, sort of a recipe swap with subscribers all over the country and beyond (she has a number of loyal fans in England and Ireland). For her cookbook, she has gathered her own and readers' favorite recipes, along with hundreds of kitchen tips and suggestions, all charmingly illustrated with her line drawings. The recipes are easy and of the type found in many community cookbooks, including meat loaf, casseroles, molded salads, and the like Bannister, who has a good sense of humor and an engaging style, writes that she "gets a kick out of being some distance from the cutting edge." There are some "gourmet surprises," too, as the title promises, such as pepper-crusted Filet Mignon and some tasty lobster dishes (Bannister lives in Maine). For larger collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	viii
	Soulful Bowlfuls	1
	Salads of Substance	33
	Good to Go	61
	The Real Meal	93
	Cook It Easy	129
	Saltwater Summer	159
	Garden of Eating	201
	Best Wishes, Best Dishes	223
	Born to Bake	297
	Chocolate Chitchat	343
	Index	368