Fearless Critic Austin Restaurant Guide or Complete Book of Mixed Drinks the

Fearless Critic Austin Restaurant Guide: Feisty Local Food Writers Review 360 Places to Eat in and around Austin, Texas

Author: Rebecca Markovits

The Fearless Critic is Austin's first restaurant guidebook. Our discriminating panel of feisty local food writers rates and reviews more than 390 restaurants in the greater Austin area, including Round Rock, Pflugerville, Dripping Springs, and the Hill Country. With relentless honesty and outspoken good taste, we evaluate every restaurant in a fun, engaging style that gets down to the heart of what's good—and bad—about the place. The book comes complete with numerous sets of cross-referenced lists that help you find the ideal restaurant for every occasion—from taco stands and out-of- the-way BBQ trucks to elaborate New American and prix-fixe temples to French cuisine. The Fearless Critic Austin Restaurant Guide is a must for anyone who eats out in the Austin area—veteran Austinites and newcomers alike.

Interesting textbook: Food Fight or The Best of Chili Recipes

Complete Book of Mixed Drinks, the (Revised Edition): More Than 1,000 Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Cocktails

Author: Anthony Dias Blu

With more than 100 new recipes for cocktails, mixed drinks, and nonalcoholic beverages, this revised edition of Anthony Dias Blue's classic guide fills us in on what we need to know:

• How to stock a bar, listing alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages by probable frequency of use.
• Bar and cocktail definitions -- learn the difference between a julep and a smash, a toddy and a flip.
• Calorie charts, mixology tips, and illustrated descriptions of glasses.

Organized by spirit, each chapter is introduced by an accessible and eloquent essay. Discover more than 1,000 recipes for cocktails, categorized by Classics, Creative Concoctions, Signature Drinks, and Tropical Drinks -- everything from the popular Martini and the Coco Loco to Trader Vic's West Indies Punch, a Midori Sour, and a Velvet Hammer.

Whether entertaining, bartending, or simply relaxing with a favorite drink, this is the must-have bar book.

Fruit and Nuts or Religion and Wine

Fruit and Nuts: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation, Uses and Health Benefits of over 300 Food-Producing Plants

Author: Susanna Lyl

An informative and comprehensive guide to growing and using more than 200 species of fruits and nuts, this A–Z reference will inspire gardeners to grow and use a wider variety of edible plants. Each entry includes a brief history, detailed description, and authoritative information on propagation, as well as helpful advice about harvesting times and methods, cultivation and location needs, pruning, pests and diseases, nutrition and health benefits, and medicinal uses. An extensive, annotated list of cultivars will help gardeners and growers select the most appropriate plants for their location and needs. Suitable for home gardeners, horticulture professionals, orchardists, and nutritionists.

Book about: How to Buy Food for Economy and Quality or The American History Cookbook

Religion and Wine: A Cultural History of Wine Drinking in the United States

Author: Robert C Fuller

Wine, more than any other food or beverage, is intimately associated with religious experience and celebratory rituals. Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in American cultural history. From the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock to the Franciscans and Jesuits who pioneered California's Mission Trail, many American religious groups have required wine to perform their sacraments and enliven their evening meals. This book tells the story of how viniculture in America was started and sustained by a broad spectrum of religious denominations. In the process, it offers new insights into the special relationship between wine production and consumption and the spiritual dimension of human experience.

Library Journal

Fuller (religion, Bradley Coll.) has written that rare combination of scholarly treatise and entertaining social history. He traces the relationship between wine and religion from the earliest Egyptian religious uses of wine to contemporary American religious attitudes toward wine. He examines not only the ways in which religious prohibitions of wine arose but also the production of wine by various religious organizations. An intoxicating book; highly recommended.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Religion, Wine, and Eastern "High Culture"	10
Ch. 2	Western Expansion: Religion and "A Happy Wineland"	24
Ch. 3	Wine and American Religious Communities	40
Ch. 4	The Grapes of Wrath: Prohibition	74
Ch. 5	Popular Religion and the Wine Revolution	96
	Epilogue. Religion and Wine: Concluding Observations	111
	Notes	119
	Suggested Readings	133
	Index	137