The Best Wine Books for Beginners

[Photograph: Maggie Hoffman] Want books with a little substance to take to the beach? Perhaps you’re just getting serious about wine but don’t really know where to start learning more. Maybe you find yourself in the aisles of your local wine shop, wishing you could decode the labels and find something great that you haven’t sipped on before. Or maybe you’re looking for a gift for the wine-dabbler in your life. Whatever the reason, we’ve got you covered. Here are eight great wine books for reading now and referring back to later. Two Favorites Drink This: Wine Made Simple by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl: This author doesn’t just recite information about wine for you to memorize. Instead, she provides a roadmap to teaching yourself about wine by tasting it for yourself. She goes grape by grape suggesting which bottles you should try to really get a sense of each varietal. Want to know Chardonnay? Have a tasting party with the five wines she suggests, consider the questions she asks as you sample, and by the end, you’ll have a pretty good idea how Chardonnay varies across regions and winemaking styles, and most importantly, which you like best. This book is fun and easy to read; a practical guide you can start using right …

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New Recipe! Truffled Cashew Cheese

Man, it’s been a busy few days… actually, couple of weeks, with all the year-end activities at school and such.

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Full of Beans!

I’ve started a series of posts on my T/S page about feeding picky toddlers and children.

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Wine, Health, Science and Journalism: A Study in Headlines

I consume a lot of wine news. When I say a lot, I mean literally almost everything that’s published for free on the Internet about wine “passes by my desk” courtesy of Google Alerts, Technorati, a massive collection of RSS feeds, and more. Increasingly I get the opportunity to see how wine stories develop and spread through the Web’s news outlets, and it’s quite amazing to watch. Recently I’ve been watching with fascination as the mainstream press does its usual unraveling of some recently released research results focused on wine drinking in women and weight gain. Specifically, I’ve been giggling at the complete lack of understanding we seem to have of the difference between correlation and causation, combined with the creative liberties of headline writing: Moderate Drinking 'Can Keep Women Slim' : The Chosun Ilbo Glass of wine may keep women from gaining weight : New York Daily News Bottoms up for skinnier bottoms : Independent Women Who Consume Alcohol Gain Less Weight: Study : Huffington Post (blog) A drink a day could help keep the pounds away : Globe and Mail Cheers, Ladies! A Drink A Day …

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Weekly Word Nerd Quiz TONIGHT – Study Up!

If you love vocabulary…if interesting words make your heart go pitter-pat…if you think a good vocabulary word is as beautiful a seaside vista or a mocha brownie… …Then come take the Smartypants Vocabulary Quiz tonight! Word meanings, synonyms, antonyms, word origins…it’ll all be right here, baby. And if you have word-loving students under your roof, have them jump right on in and give it a try. A couple of Kindles will be among the shiny prizes. It’ll be fun! It’ll be difficult! It’ll make your brain pound back and forth in your brain! Sounds like a blast, doesn’t it? Here are the details: Smartypants Quiz: VOCABULARY Edition – Tuesday, February 23, 6:00 pm Pacific Time Be there or be despondent. The rest is here: Weekly Word Nerd Quiz TONIGHT – Study Up!

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Word Nerd Quiz TONIGHT – Study Up!

If you love vocabulary…if interesting words make your heart flutter…if you think a good vocabulary word is as beautiful as an pint of Coffee Haagen Dazs or an impressionistic painting…come take the Smartypants Vocabulary Quiz tonight. Word meanings, synonyms, antonyms, origins…it’ll all be right here, baby. And if you have word-loving students under your roof, have them jump in and give it a try. A couple of Kindles will be among the prizes. It’ll be fun! It’ll be difficult! It’ll make your brain convulse violently! Sounds like a blast, doesn’t it? Here are the details: Smartypants Quiz: VOCABULARY Edition – Tuesday, February 9, 6:00 pm Pacific Time See you then! More here: Word Nerd Quiz TONIGHT – Study Up!

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Smartypants Quiz: VOCABULARY Edition – Study Up!

Oooh…I’m excited about this one. If you love vocabulary…if interesting words make your heart flutter…if you think a good vocabulary word is as beautiful as an impressionistic painting…come take the Smartypants Vocabulary Quiz tonight. Word meanings, synonyms, antonyms, origins…anything goes! It’ll be fun. It’ll be difficult. It’ll make your brain pulse in agony. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Here are the details: Smartypants Quiz: VOCABULARY Edition – Wednesday, January 27, 6:00 pm Pacific Time See you then. See the article here: Smartypants Quiz: VOCABULARY Edition – Study Up!

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Smartypants Quiz: SEVENTIES Movie Edition – Study Up!

It’s a new year, and the Smartypants Quizzes are ready to go! We’ll begin the new crop of quizzes with a cinema theme: every day this week, there’ll be a new Smartypants quiz, each one covering a different decade of awesome, fabulous, wonderful movies. Have I mentioned I love movies? We’ll start with the SEVENTIES edition Smartypants Quiz tonight (Tuesday) at 6:00 Pacific Time . Brush up on your movie trivia, famous quotes, actors, Oscars, and directors that defined movies in the 1970’s, and come ready to be challenged! Prizes will be announced tonight before the quiz. This’ll be fun. See you then! Go here to see the original: Smartypants Quiz: SEVENTIES Movie Edition – Study Up!

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ATLANTA Smartypants Quiz – Study Up!

Study up today! The Smartypants Atlanta Edition will begin Tuesday morning at 9:00 am Pacific Time . See you then! See original here: ATLANTA Smartypants Quiz – Study Up!

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So what exactly is Hawaiian butterfish?

Have you heard the one about the marine biologist who walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna? It’s no joke because he ends up with a fish called escolar, sometimes sold as butterfish, a particularly nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhoea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge. Well these things happen don’t they, especially in places like the USA ? The sad thing is that it happened 5 times to the same scientists during a brief research project and this in a country that is fairly well regulated in terms of food requirements. Now I’m not too bothered (he said smugly) because I’ve had enough of bloody sushi, in fact I think I’ll go back to eating prawn cocktails garnished with a sprig of parsley because where we live no-one knows how to spell food regulations never mind enforce them and repeated TV exposes simply reinforce the fact that many local producers have no scruples about putting whatever they feel like onto the market. You less enlightened mortals out there however should be very wary because many local suppliers understanding of product knowledge merely means that they…

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