The Twelve Monotasks

The Twelve Monotasks

Author: Thatcher Wine

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0316705535

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Reclaim your attention, productivity, and happiness with this “captivating, informative and beautifully written” book by learning how to keep your focus on one familiar task at a time (Nate Berkus). Modern life is full of to-do lists, all-consuming technology and the constant pressure to be doing and striving for more. What if you could train your brain to focus on one thing at a time? What if the secret to better productivity involved doing less, not more? Drawing on research in psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness, The Twelve Monotasks provides a clear and accessible plan for life in the twenty-first century. Practice resisting distractions and building focus by doing the things you already do—like reading, sleeping, eating, and listening—with renewed attention. For example, the next time you go for a walk, don’t try to run an errand or squeeze in a phone call, but instead, notice the cool breeze on your face and the plants and birds that may cross your path. Immerse yourself in the activity and let time melt away, even if you’re only actually out for 20 minutes. Notice how much clearer your head feels when you return home. This is the magic of monotasking. With monotasking you will: Become more productive Produce higher quality work Reduce stress And increase happiness. Thatcher Wine’s The Twelve Monotasks will help you do one thing at a time, and do it well, so you can enjoy all of your life!


Gold in the Vineyards

Gold in the Vineyards

Author: Laura Catena

Publisher: Catapulta Editores

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789876376662

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Winner of the 2020 Gourmand Award for Best in the World Wine History Book, Dr. Laura Catena's Gold in the Vineyards is an illustrated book about the family struggles, triumphs and vineyard secrets behind twelve of the most famous wines and vineyards in the world.


Wine's Nutritional Power

Wine's Nutritional Power

Author: A J Morris JrPhD

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2015-05-21

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1681810964

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Wine is the most perfect of all foods, according to Louis Pasteur, and is the closest known substance to blood. Hebrew history records that wine was used for covenants and daily as a water purifier. Wine was the sustaining nutrition hidden in cellars when enemy armies stole the food. Florence Nightingale saved the British Army during the Crimean War when they were losing hundreds of soldiers a day from cholera, typhus, and Brucellosis plagues. Desperate generals finally agreed to let her fifty nurses help. The power of her wine remedy in the water buckets will astound you. In 1938, USDA researcher Agnes Fay Morgan discovered fermentation caused grape juice to create new vitamins, acids, and other nutritional substances; but USDA research was stopped by regulatory agencies claiming wine was “alcoholic liquor,” and it was not classified as a food. This careless, mislabeled, comingled, confusing, and interchangeable use of the terms “wine” and “liquor” has caused the ignorance and rejection of wine as a fermented food product. In the author’s next book, Wine’s Medicinal Power, he investigates the medicinal elements of disease-destroying acids and will present shocking university discoveries that confirm the food-chain power of wine.


Around the World in Eighty Wines

Around the World in Eighty Wines

Author: Mike Veseth

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1442257377

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Inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, celebrated editor-in-chief of The Wine Economist Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines. The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg’s home base, and follows Fogg’s itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia, and Lebanon. Every glass of wine tells a story, and so each of the eighty wines must tell an important tale. We head back across Northern Africa to Algeria, once the world’s leading wine exporter, before hopping across the sea to Spain and Portugal. We follow Portuguese trade routes to Madeira and then South Africa with a short detour to taste Kenya’s most famous Pinot Noir. Kenya? Pinot Noir? Really! The route loops around, visiting Bali, Thailand, and India before heading north to China to visit Shangri-La. Shangri-La? Does that even exist? It does, and there is wine there. Then it is off to Australia, with a detour in Tasmania, which is so cool that it is hot. The stars of the Southern Cross (and the title of a familiar song) guide us to New Zealand, Chile, and Argentina. We ride a wine train in California and rendezvous with Planet Riesling in Seattle before getting into fast cars for a race across North America, collecting more wine as we go. Pause for lunch in Virginia to honor Thomas Jefferson, then it’s time to jet back to London to tally our wines and see what we have learned. Why these particular places? What are the eighty wines and what do they reveal? And what is the surprise plot twist that guarantees a happy ending for every wine lover? Come with us on a journey of discovery that will inspire, inform, and entertain anyone who loves travel, adventure, or wine.


Passion for Wine

Passion for Wine

Author: Jean-Charles Boisset

Publisher: Favorite Recipes Press/ Boisset Collection

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9780871976468

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Liquid Memory

Liquid Memory

Author: Jonathan Nossiter

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2010-09-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1429977124

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Jonathan Nossiter, acclaimed filmmaker and former sommelier, had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father's fingertip. For him, wine is "memory in its most liquid and dynamic form," as essential an expression of culture as cinema, books, baseball, painting, even sex. With great wit and passion, he celebrates wine and its enthusiasts—and defends both from those who tell us what to drink and how to think about it. In Liquid Memory, the American expatriate investigates the infinite mysteries of terroir, the historical sense of place that makes wine a living, thrilling expression of cultural identity that can stretch back centuries. The book is a deliriously joyful master class in locating the soul of a wine, and in learning to trust your own palate and desires. Nossiter, who has already created an uproar in the world of wine with his film Mondovino, arms us against the tyranny of snobs, critics, and charlatans who would prevent us from taking part in what should be a gloriously democratic bacchanalia. From the sacred wine shops and three-star restaurants of Paris to the biodynamic vineyards of Burgundy, from the hipster bistros of New York to film locations in Rio de Janeiro and Athens, this singular journey invites us to consider how power, misused, can sometimes mask an absence of taste—and how our own personal taste can combat power in any sphere. A controversial bestseller in Europe, Liquid Memory is sure to rile the establishment, enlighten the thirsty, and reveal the inner life of the world's most mysterious, contradictory, and jubilatory drink.


Big Macs & Burgundy

Big Macs & Burgundy

Author: Vanessa Price

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1683359259

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The national bestseller that turns you into “an expert at pairing wine with just about anything, from pizza and Lucky Charms to pad thai and Popeye’s” (Maxim). Featured on Today and CBS This Morning Named one of the best books of the year by Food & Wine, Saveur, and Town & Country Sancerre and Cheetos go together like milk and cookies. The science behind this unholy alliance is as elemental as acid, fat, salt, and minerals. Wine pro Vanessa Price explains how to create your own pairings while proving you don’t necessarily need fancy foods to unlock the joys of wine. Building upon the outsize success of her weekly column in Grub Street, Price offers delightfully bold wine and food pairings alongside hilarious tales from her own unlikely journey as a Kentucky girl making it in the Big Apple and in the wine business. Using language everyone can understand, she reveals why each dynamic duo is a match made in heaven, serving up memorable takeaways that will help you navigate any wine list or local bottle shop. Charmingly illustrated and bubbling with personality, Big Macs & Burgundy will open your mind to the entirely fun and entirely accessible wine pairings out there waiting to be discovered—and make you do a few spit-takes along the way. “The book explores all different kinds of combinations, including breakfast pairings like avocado toast and Rueda Verdejo, pairings for entertaining like shrimp cocktail & Valdeorras Godello, and even some pairings with popular Trader Joe’s items.” —Food & Wine “A smart, useful guide to drinking the world’s great wine, whether you’re pairing it with foie gras or Fritos.” —Town & Country


Wine's Nutritional Power

Wine's Nutritional Power

Author: A J Morris, Jr., PhD

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 1631356739

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Wine is the most perfect of all foods, according to Louis Pasteur, and is the closest known substance to blood. Hebrew history records that wine was used for covenants and daily as a water purifier. Wine was the sustaining nutrition hidden in cellars when enemy armies stole the food. Florence Nightingale saved the British Army during the Crimean War when they were losing hundreds of soldiers a day from cholera, typhus, and Brucellosis plagues. Desperate generals finally agreed to let her fifty nurses help. The power of her wine remedy in the water buckets will astound you. In 1938, USDA researcher Agnes Fay Morgan discovered fermentation caused grape juice to create new vitamins, acids, and other nutritional substances; but USDA research was stopped by regulatory agencies claiming wine was “alcoholic liquor,” and it was not classified as a food. This careless, mislabeled, comingled, confusing, and interchangeable use of the terms “wine” and “liquor” has caused the ignorance and rejection of wine as a fermented food product. In the author’s next book, Wine’s Medicinal Power, he investigates the medicinal elements of disease-destroying acids and will present shocking university discoveries that confirm the food-chain power of wine.


What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking

What Makes a Wine Worth Drinking

Author: Terry Theise

Publisher: Harvest

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1328762211

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A paean to authentic wines, describing their fundamental qualities and their power to improve and enrich our lives, from "one of the wine world's most intriguing personalities" (New York Times).


The Power of the Terroir: the Case Study of Prosecco Wine

The Power of the Terroir: the Case Study of Prosecco Wine

Author: Diego Tomasi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 3034806280

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This book draws on an eight-year study carried out in the DOCG Prosecco area of Italy, a wine region known worldwide. It is unique in the sense that it is based on one of the most comprehensive investigations into terroir zoning ever performed in Italy. By drawing attention to the complex interrelations between environmental and human factors that influence the growth and production of the Glera grape, the study illustrates the distinct correlation between a wine and its ‘terroir’. It shows that the morphology of the sites, the meso and microclimate, the soil, the grapevine planting density, the trellising system, the yield of the vineyard, and the vine water status in the summer lead to unique combinations of grape maturity, acidity, and aroma that ultimately influence the sensory properties of the wines produced. Furthermore, the book details numerous technical and agronomic considerations, specific to the “Glera” grape variety, for different production strategies, including a section on the impact of climate change on cv “Glera” phenology. “The Power of the Terroir: the Case Study of Prosecco Wine” represents a valuable resource for anyone involved in studies or research activities in the fields of viticulture, climatology, agronomic sciences or soil sciences, but is also of interest to vine growers, professionals in the wine industry, and wine enthusiasts in general.