Most wine enthusiasts think the lifespan of a wine as an arc, with a peak of perfection at some point in the centre. Pinpointing where the perfect peak lies challenges experts and amateurs everywhere.
On the other hand, infrequent wine consumers thin that red wine gets better with age.
A few days ago, I offered a [...]

Maran Graphics has perfected an award-winning communication process to “teach” the basics of many skills, i.e bartending, wine knowledge and service, cooking, guitar playing, and yoga, just to name a few.
Wine is an extremely well illustrated book that provides all the basics of wine making, packaging, purchasing, storage and service.

All important wine producing countries of [...]

In the past girls used to help their mothers to prepare meals fort eh family, and so inherited many of the cooking techniques and recipes.
These days, young girls hardly ever assist their mothers cooking and rely mostly on prepared, delivered, or restaurant food.
If by chance they heat prepared frozen food, they flatter themselves as [...]

This anthology is collection of stories from 30 European countries written by well-established writers and others whose fictitious stories were never translated and published before. They are from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Albania, Slovakia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Austria.

Bringing together Irish plot twists with Albanian childhood, Russian science fiction and Italian soccer [...]

Maran Graphics is a family company specializing in illustrated “ How to” books. This well-established and highly experienced company has so far, published over 11 books including guitar, Cooking Basics, Algebra, Sudoku, Poker, Yoga, Knitting and Crocheting, to name a few.
The Illustrated Bartending created by a young but experienced and internationally acknowledged bartender, explains everything [...]

Ukraine, now and independent country of CIS (Confederation of Independent States), was the third important wine source of the U. S. S. R after Russia and Moldova.
The Crimean Peninsula, with its relatively mild climate, is the main region of vitiviniculture in this large country with its capital Kiev.
According to researchers vines were brought to [...]

Armenia is one of the oldest vitivinicultural districts of the world. Some archaeologists claim that wine was accidentally discovered in this small and mountainous country or Georgia north if it.
Armenia’s average altitude compensates for its latitude (39 – 41 north) and 700 km. closer to the equator than those of Burgundy, but it [...]

Eating a nutritionally balanced diet is almost impossible if you rely on takeout or fast food. Anyone can cook adequately with a little interest, knowledge, and minimum of equipment.
The first and most important requirement is the will to cook, followed by good co-ordination and timing skills, and understanding what cooking is all about.
Briefly, cooking [...]

Organizers staged the first Cuvee in 1989 as a fundraiser for local charities but the event has evolved to lavish celebration of Ontario wines and foods.
The first Cuvee event attracted 350 guests and 16 wineries participated. Today well over 800 attend and 57 wineries pour their best wines, in the new Fallsview Casino’s lavishly furnished [...]

Sake (nihonshu in Japanese) has played a central role in Japanese culture for the past two millennia, although the production technique was first employed in the Yangtze Valley in China in 4800 B.C.
Sake is a fermented beverage brewed using koji mould (aspergillus oryzae) and yeast. It is a beer, although most western consumers think of [...]

Canada, the second largest country in the world, stretching from the Atlantic -, to the Pacific- and Arctic Oceans, lacks the culinary fame of France, or Italy,
Medieval French from Normandy and Brittany, and English settled the country. In those days all were not noted for their culinary prowess, and ingredients in Canada were nowhere near [...]

Grapes grew wild and in some locations still do, for centuries before people in the Caucasus accidentally discovered wine. It was in the warehouses of King Jamshid, where bunches of grapes were stored in huge clay jars for the ruler to enjoy the fruit in the winter. He loved to eat grapes. One day, one [...]

Although no one knows how or where cheese making originated, the earliest references describe its solid parts as nutritious and satisfying.

Germans call pinot noir spatburgunder, literally late ripening red Burgundy, as opposed to early ripening Burgundy (fruhburgunder) version, which they also plant, but use it for blending only.

Once under the umbrella of Yugoslavia, this country on the Adriatic Sea has a long and varied vitvinicultural history starting with ancient Greeks who where probably the first to plant grapes in the region.
Croatia is located between 43 – 46 latitudes north bordering Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovenia and the Adriatic Sea.
The majority [...]

This large Eastern Mediterranean Island has been producing wine since 2300 B.C as archaeological excavations prove.
The evolution of winemaking can be conveniently divided into the following eras – Lusignan, Ottoman, British and since 1980.
During the Lusignan era, with the help of Armenian rulers of Cilicia in what is today southern Turkey, winemaking advanced [...]

Although this central European country is world-famous for its beers and there is enthusiastic public support for it, wine has been made and consumed since the Czech Prince Borivoj demanding the planting of vineyards in the 13th century. A century later, there were enough grape growers so that an association was formed to guard their [...]