The 2007 DiRoNA Guide


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Dine where the chefs dine. This volume contains comprehensive full-page descriptions and full-color photos of fine dining restaurants across North America honored with the DiRoNA Award.




The Traveler's Web


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Presents a vast range of online travel sites as well as savvy search tips and techniques that are designed to help readers improve the travel-planning process. Readers will learn how to make the most of the Web for leisure and business travel, from planning and reservations to countless ways the Internet can enhance the experience of destinations and cultures around the world.--From publisher description.




Condé Nast Johansens the Americas Atlantic Caribbean and Pacific


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A comprehensive illustrated reference to annually inspected and recommended prestigious hotels inns resorts and spas throughout the Americas and Caribbean




Santé


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Guide to Marine Invertebrates


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This is the largest species of sea pen encountered by divers in the northern Pacific. the short, slender branches of the stalk are white, as are the polyps.




Cruising the Secret Coast


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A guide to unexplored anchorages on British Columbia's Inside Passage. Just off the Inside Passage's beaten path are countless channels, bays and lagoons that beg exploration. Some are easy, some can be entered only during a few minutes at high water slack. Waggoner correspondents Jennifer and James Hamilton have researched many of these hidden jewels, and provided detailed navigation instructions. Plus history, sights to see, trails and logging roads to walk. Added chapters discuss anchoring techniques, water conservation, food & meal planning, even laundry.




Food and Wine Pairing


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Food and Wine Pairing: A Sensory Experience provides a series of discussion and exercises ranging from identifying basic wine characteristics, including visual, aroma, taste (acid, sweetness, oak, tannin, body, etc.), palate mapping (acid, sweet, sour, bitter, and tannin), basic food characteristics and anchors of each (sweet, sour, bitter, saltiness, fattiness, body, etc). It presents how these characteristics contrast and complement each other. By helping culinary professionals develop the skills necessary to identifying the key elements in food or wine that will directly impact its matching based on contrast or similarities, they will then be able to predict excellent food and wine pairings.




Gourmet


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Produce News


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