The Vade-mecum of the Wine Lover


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The Wine Pioneers


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At first there were the horticulturists and wine growers, then came the wine makers, the coopers, and the cellar masters. Inevitably there were wine shippers and wine merchants. Chemists and biologists added their skills in the past two centuries, and only very recently came the oenologists and the professional wine tasters. Wine writers play an important role in today's wine trade, and there were always wine connoisseurs and wine snobs. From 5000BC to the modern day, this book provides a chronological history of the wine pioneers through the ages.







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Two Loaf-givers


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Abstract: A history of gastronomy derived from information gleaned from the Bitting and Pennell gastronomic library collections, translating and interpreting the writings contained in these two collections. The second half of the text provides an ambitious interpretation of French gastronomic liter ature. Many illustrative anecdotes are presented throughout the text and a variety of historic prints are included.




Joe Miller's Jests: or, the Wit's Vade-Mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the politest repartees, the most elegant bons mots, and the most pleasant short stories in the English Language. First carefully collected in the company, and many of them transcribed from the mouth, of the facetious gentleman whose name they bear, and now set forth and published by his lamentable friend and former companion, Elijah Jenkins, Esq. or rather compiled by J. Mottley. First edition


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