Saturday, December 27, 2008

Still Smokin or Cellaring Wine

Still Smokin': More than 150 New Recipes for Savory Smoked-Cooked Dishes

Author: Cookshack

Here's another delectable compilation of original recipes from Cookshack, one of the biggest names in authentic pit-barbecue and natural wood-smoked foods. This comprehensive volume, featuring 180 recipes, offers such classics "Q" dishes as Cured Hickory-Smoked Baby Back Ribs, Jack Daniels Brisket, and Pork Tenderloin Deluxe, plus a panoply of savory sauces, rubs, salsas, and salads. Still Smokin' also includes Mesquite-Smoked Goat Cheese Shrimp, Savory Smoked Mozzarella and Tomato Cheese Cake, Charred Vegetable Gratin, and many other innovative recipes. With temperature charts, a guide to flavorful woods, and useful tips for effective food smoking, this is an essential book for any aficionado of live-fire cooking.



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Cellaring Wine: Managing Your Wine Collection...to Perfection

Author: Jeff Cox

Beer is just a beverage, but wine is an experience. There's an aura of romance, a hint of the sublime, to bringing a bottle up from your own cellar, carefully drawing out the cork, pouring the wine into a goblet, and taking the first delectable sip.

Now Jeff Cox, author of From Vines to Wines (89,000 copies in print) and a connoisseur well respected in wine circles, shows you how easy it is to have a wine cellar of your own.

But Cellaring Wine is not a home-building project book. In some cases, the would-be wine collector doesn?t have to do much building at all. Rather, Cellaring Wine teaches anyone who loves wine how to create a working system of selecting wines that will age well, know how to lay them down properly, and recognize when they have matured to their full glory and are ready to be savored.

Cox pinpoints the optimum conditions of temperature, light, and humidity for a wine cellar. He walks you through possible locations for your wine cellar ? whether in the basement, an old root cellar, the back of your garage, or even a closet or room in your house ? and what each location requires. He explains when you?ll need a climate-control device (and how much they cost). And he discusses the pros and cons of buying a freestanding unit that is much like a refrigerator.

Then Cox tackles the question that most troubles wine lovers: Which wines will improve with age, and which won?t? This chapter alone is worth the price of the book, since nothing is more disappointing to a wine lover than waiting years to open a bottle of wine only to discover that it was at its peak when it was laid down.

Cox shows you how to keep accurate records so you know at a glance ? withouthaving to hunt through the wine racks ? what you have, where it's located, and how much to buy so the cellar doesn?t become depleted. And he gives you a crash course in appreciating the fragrance and flavor of a fine wine.Perhaps best of all, Cox gets readers excited about the possibilities of having their own wine cellar. After all, a cellar is not just a storage room, it's a university where good young wines become great.



Table of Contents:
Prefaceviii
Acknowledgmentsxii
Part 1Why Collect and Cellar Wine?1
1.Why Collect Wine?2
2.Selecting and Acquiring Wine23
3.How Wine Ages53
4.Cellar Size and Function99
Part 2Building and Using the Wine Cellar121
5.Constructing and Equipping a Wine Cellar122
6.Freestanding Units and Other Cellar Options158
7.Record Keeping186
8.Consuming and Evaluating Wine209
Bibliography231
Appendixes232
Wine Aroma Wheel233
Wine-Growing Regions of the World234
Wine-Growing Regions of Italy234
Wine-Growing Regions of France235
Wine-Growing Regions of Spain235
Wine-Growing Regions of California236
Resources237
Glossary244
Index249

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