More people are enjoying wine now than any time history. Millions spend billions on wine, and unfortunately most lack the most basic knowledge of evaluation, and standards when sipping a glass of wine.

This country’s vitivinicultural history goes back 2500 years. Trading Greeks established vineyards on the northern coast of the Black Sea close to Rostov-on-Don. Generally, Russians prefer spirits and beers to wine, therefore made little effort to expand vineyards, and the climate is less than suitable for large-scale grape growing, being prone to extremely cold winters. [...]

Travelling in Tunisia presents an opportunity to experience a rich, diverse history, culture and people.
Crossing the country from east to west you can experience olive groves, the Red Mountains of Temerza, the golden dunes of the Sahara and the beautiful coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
Tunis, the capital of Tunisia with a population of [...]

In antiquity, salt was a precious commodity. Marco Polo reported that in Tibet cakes of salt were pressed with images of their ruler and used as currency.

Renowned wine expert and educator Kevin Zraly’s Windows on the world Complete Wine course is one of the best selling books of the genre in the world. (Three million copies sold to date).
The expanded and updated 25th Anniversary Edition contain defined maps of wine producing countries, regions, brand recommendations, how to taste, a list [...]

Wojcieck Jagielski is a savvy reporter with a sharpened mind and unbending will to describe the Chechen struggle to gain freedom from the Russian government of today.
He does not shy away from the complexity and bleakness of the Chechen predicament.
The history of Russia in the Caucasus is long, convoluted, cruel, and largely untold [...]

Overflowing with irresistible recipes using bittersweet and semi-sweet chocolate, cacao nibs, and beans, this book is a delight to read, and make use of the recipes it contains.
Do you know who invented milk chocolate: read page 14. This invention catapulted chocolate consumption to unprecedented heights. Still today, most chocolate consumers prefer milk chocolate to [...]

Home baking seems to be an activity practised less and less. For most homemakers, time is valuable and while baking may involve lengthy preparations, the results of practised baking are rewarding, and cost much less than store bought merchandise.
Every day brings opportunities for baking something delicious, and this book provides ample recipes to pursue [...]

This extraordinary book was created using the episodes in each season of the TV reality show programme of Top Chef, hence the name.
Any reader who thinks this to be a frivolous book is wrong. It is a book of young ambitious, and eager cooks and executive chefs who lie to compete in one kitchen set-up [...]

While in the 1970’s Ontario wines were still of quite low quality and regarded as undrinkable, shortly after the Free Trade Agreement, quality started to improve. As time passed improvement accelerated, and today many truly Ontario grown wines are of good and very good quality.

Known as the “red city”, Marrakech was the former imperial city. It is located on the foothills of the Atlas mountain chain, and today is a major trading centre with a population of over one million.

Jamie Oliver is a young and unpretentious chef with a noble mission. He wants people of all walks to enjoy simple, well prepared, and natural food.
His idea is brilliant and hopefully catches on. As he recommends in this book, everyone who prepares at least one recipe from this book must teach it to at [...]

Travelling safely requires certain precautions especially when alone or with your family in tow,
Once you have decided on your destination and flight reserve your accommodation.

Tony Aspler has been writing about wine for more than three decades, and is today, one of the most widely respected wine writers in Canada. His integrity and impartiality are well known amongst his colleagues.
The witty prose flows beautifully in the inimitable way he writes.
This book has been long overdue, because now, in [...]

This is the world’s simplest meal in the microwave.

Under the Roman Empire, Portugal was known as Lusitania (from Losus, son of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine). Before Romans, trading Phoenicians from eastern Mediterranean had introduced wine to the indigenous population.
Moors, a North African Muslim tribe occupied the country from 711 to 1249, but kept vineyards, since the rulers liked to enjoy grapes. [...]

At first wine was transported in sewn skins of animals and retailed, then clay jars with lid were invented, and these eventually gave way to barrels.
After the glass bottle use was popularized, corks gained prominence as closures, but unfortunately corks may taint wine with TCA (trichloranisol) and render it with very unpleasant, though not lethal. [...]