The Food Lover's Companion to the Napa Valley


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This is the first of its kind: an insider's food guide to that gourmand's paradise, the Napa Valley. Author and longtime resident Lori Lyn Narlock goes behind the scenes to discover where chefs shop, the best places to take a cooking class, or where to get a grapeseed oil massage. With complete details on the where, when, how, and how much, plus dozens of artful black-and-white photographs, this indispensible guide for food lovers even includes 50 recipes honoring the region's local specialties. It's a mouthwatering roster of the best that Napa has to offer.




Food Lovers' Guide to® Napa Valley


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Savor the Falvors of Napa Valley The heart of California’s wine country, Napa Valley offers diverse and sophisticated options to please the palate. It is home to creative, farm-to-table seasonal menus, cutting-edge chefs, passionate farmers, and innovative purveyors. In Food Lovers’ Guide to Napa Valley, seasoned writer Jean Saylor Doppenberg shares the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate these culinary treasures. A bounty of mouthwatering delights awaits you in this engagingly written guide. With delectable recipes from the renowned kitchens of Napa Valley’s iconic eateries, Food Lovers’ Guide to Napa Valley is the ultimate resource for food lovers to use and savor. Inside You'll Find:Favorite restaurants and landmark eateries • Food festivals and culinary events • Recipes from top Napa Valley chefs • Cooking classes • Food and wine pairings with some of Napa’s landmark wineries • The region’s best wine bars, brewpubs, and microbreweries • Farmers’ markets and farm stands • Local food lore and kitchen wisdom • Specialty food stores, markets, and food trucks




The Food Lover's Guide to Wine


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A wine book unlike any other,The Food Lover's Guide to Wine offers a fresh perspective via the single aspect of wine most compelling to food lovers: flavor. At the heart of this indispensable reference, formatted like the authors' two previous bestsellers The Flavor Bible and What to Drink with What You Eat, is an encyclopedic A-to-Z guide profiling hundreds of different wines by their essential characteristics-from body and intensity to distinguishing flavors, from suggested serving temperatures and ideal food pairings to recommended producers (including many iconic examples). The book provides illuminating insights from dozens of America's best sommeliers via informative sidebars, charts and boxes, which complement the book's gorgeous four-color photography. Another groundbreaking work from two of the ultimate culinary insiders, this instant classic is the perfect gift book.




San Francisco Food Lover's Pocket Guide


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PATRICIA UNTERMANS SAN FRANCISCO FOOD LOVERS POCKET GUIDE offers an intrepid, unapologetically discriminating, and refreshingly down-to-earth selection of the best and most interesting eateries, markets, and other food- and drink-related spots in San Francisco, the East Bay, Marin County, and the wine country. Now in a compact format, this book is a hip-pocket must for locals and tourists alike, covering everything from sophisticated California cuisine to authentic Mission taquerias.




Food Lovers' Guide to® Kansas City


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The ultimate guide to Kansas City's food scene provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Written for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: food festivals and culinary events; specialty food shops; farmers’ markets and farm stands; trendy restaurants and time-tested iconic landmarks; and recipes using local ingredients and traditions.




Patricia Unterman's San Francisco Food Lover's Pocket Guide, Second Edition


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PATRICIA UNTERMAN'S SAN FRANCISCO FOOD LOVER'S POCKET GUIDE offers an intrepid, unapologetically discriminating, and refreshingly down-to-earth selection of the best and most interesting eateries, markets, and other food- and drink-related spots in San Francisco, the East Bay, Marin, and the wine country. Now in a compact format, this book is a hip-pocket must for locals and tourists alike, covering everything from sophisticated California cuisine to authentic Mission taquerias. The bible of food guides for the West Coast food mecca, with more than 600 listings, updated and condensed for the first time into a handy hip-pocket size. As a restaurateur, journalist, and food critic for more than 30 years, Unterman is the Bay Area's most respected authority on food. Previous editions have sold more than 75,000 copies. "Indespensable for an informed culinary wandering."-Town & Country"Forget Zagat. If you want to know where to eat, drink, and buy food and wine in the Bay Area, let Patricia Unterman show you the way. ... A must have for food-and-wine hounds heading to the Bay Area." -Food & Wine"Patricia Unterman's San Francisco Food Lover's Pocket Guide promises to help the palate-driven to only the top foodie spots in town." -New York Daily News"Patty knows her Asian food: Eat whatever she says." -7x7 Magazine"Stash this slim volume in your glove compartment and you will never be at a loss for dining options ever again. While this book is not just for tourists, I couldn't help but pass my copy off to a visiting hungry eater/blogger who already used it to find the burrito of his dreams." -Amy Sherman, blogger, Cooking With Amy




The Food Lover's Companion to Portland


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The first comprehensive guide of its kind to the Portland area, this book reveals the inside scoop on a blossoming culinary mecca.




Food Lovers' Guide to Connecticut


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Two seasoned food writers reveal the best places to buy, savor, and celebrate Connecticut's culinary bounty.




52 Great Weekend Escapes in Northern California


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Readers will find all kinds of escapes in Northern California, from hunting for waterfalls in Yosemite, horseback riding the Tamarak Basin, or gold panning in the California River. Organized by season and by difficulty level, this guide provides a year's worth of great short escapes for adventurers of every age, budget, and skill level. 100 photos & 53 maps.




Tasting the Good Life


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While anthropologists often have been accused of failing to "study up," this book turns an anthropological lens on an elite activity - wine tasting. Five million people a year, from the US and abroad, travel to California's Napa Valley to experience the "good life": to taste fine wines, eat fine food, and immerse themselves in other sophisticated pleasures while surrounded by bucolic beauty. Written in a highly readable style by anthropologists George and Sharon Gmelch, Tasting the Good Life examines who wine tourists are and what the "tasting" experience is all about. It also examines the growth of wine tourism in the valley and the impact it is having on the landscape and the lives of the people who live there. In addition to the authors' own analysis, they present the personal narratives of 17 people who work in Napa tourism -- from winemaker to vineyard manager, from celebrity chef to wait staff, from hot air balloonist to masseuse. Their stories provide unexpected and entertaining insights into this new form of tourism, the people who engage in it, its impact on a now iconic place, and American consumer culture in the 21st century.