Treading Grapes

Author : Rosemary George
Publisher : Random House
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781448110544

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Treading Grapes by Rosemary George Pdf

Tuscany offers some of the most spectacular scenery in Europe. The unique combination of cypress trees and olive groves mingling with vineyards and woods on undulating hillsides is enchanting. With villages and villas at every turn, what better way to explore the countryside than on foot? Over fifteen months of changing seasons Rosemary George did just that, visiting wine producers along the way, observing and savouring the local colour and the idiosyncrasies of a myriad of winemakers. Each chapter will feature a walk through a wine region and include advice on the key estates, places to visit and favourite restaurants. Chianti, which covers the heart of Tuscany, is the wine we all know and love, with vineyards in the magical hills around Florence and Siena, and the medieval cities of Arezzo and Pisa. However, the face of Tuscan viticulture has changed enormously in recent years with the development of the vineyards of the Maremma, bringing a host of new wines. Treading Grapes charts this wonderful renaissance of Tuscan wines, not just of Chianti, but also of the newer prestigious names such as Sassicaia and Ornellaia in the rising area of Bolgheri. It also covers the old-established wines of Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, and several others, not least the island of Elba. It will be enjoyed by wine enthusiasts and armchair travellers alike.

Author : Paul T. Nicholson,Ian Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521452570

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Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology by Paul T. Nicholson,Ian Shaw Pdf

The book describes current research into all aspects of craftwork in ancient Egypt.

Author : Philip J. King
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664224431

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Jeremiah by Philip J. King Pdf

Philip King utilizes archaeological artifacts and texts of the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, many of them unpublished or not easily accessible, to elucidate the text of the book of Jeremiah, a book that is sometimes described as difficult and whose formation is complicated. By doing so, he adds important spatial and temporal dimension to the history of Israel and to the literature about the life of one of its most significant prophets: Jeremiah.

Author : Mark G. Boyer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498242240

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Fruit of the Vine by Mark G. Boyer Pdf

Fruit of the Vine: A Biblical Spirituality of Wine is designed to help the reader grow in spirituality through reflecting on biblical vineyard stores, wine making, and wine as a metaphor for life. A spirituality of wine--categorized as a spirit--connects the spirit in wine to the universal spirit all share. Wine appeals to all five senses. Its bouquet can be smelled; its complexity, often compared to fruit, can be tasted; its shades of red, designating its body, can be seen as it clings to or quickly runs down the inside of a glass. One can hear the pop as the cork leaves the bottle's neck and the gurgle of the wine leaving the bottle as it is poured into a glass. Wine is a major sign of transformation in the process of growth from blossom, sunlight, and water to grapes, which are in turn broken apart, integrated into a whole, and fermented into alcohol. While the wine is aged, it undergoes even more transformation. People are transformed when they share this already multiple-times-transformed beverage. The vineyard and all it produces can reveal the divine if a person but opens his or her eyes to see.

Author : Emlyn K. Dodd
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789694031

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Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean by Emlyn K. Dodd Pdf

Wine was an ever-present commodity that permeated the Mediterranean throughout antiquity. This book analyses the viticulture of two settlements, Antiochia ad Cragum and Delos, using results stemming from surface survey and excavation to assess their potential integration within the now well-known agricultural boom of the 5th-7th centuries AD.

Author : Signe Isager,Jens Erik Skydsgaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134818266

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Ancient Greek Agriculture by Signe Isager,Jens Erik Skydsgaard Pdf

The initial focus of Ancient Greek Agriculture is firmly on the art of agriculture proper, the tools and the technique, the plants cultivated and the animals reared. Thereafter, Isager and Skydsgaard focus on the position of agriculture in the society of gods and men in the Greek city-states . The arguments of Ancient Greek Agriculture are strengthened by the book's close adherence to contemporary Greek sources, literary as well as archaeological, avoiding the use of later as well as Roman material.

Author : Richard Teachout
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9782981121196

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Grape Juice in the Bible: God's Blessing for His People! by Richard Teachout Pdf

"Grape Juice in the Bible" presents a strong case for the fact that Israel in Bible times had fresh grape juice as a healthy beverage. It also shows God's disapproval of alcoholic beverages for His people and details the great change in the approval of alcohol among Christians through the last 200 years in America. The reason for this book is clearly presented by a recent blog (aletheiabaptistministries.org): "It would be an uphill battle merely to advocate moderation in drinking as many conservatives do, but to come to a conclusion that total abstinence is a Biblical mandate, would place one immediately in the backwater of Christian social fellowships. But that is just the conclusion I've come to, not just because I find it the overwhelming norm of Christian history, or because the statistics on drinking grow increasingly alarming, but because I've become convinced that this is the only consistent biblical teaching."

Author : Julia Harding MW,Jancis Robinson OBE MW,Tara Q. Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2734 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780192644800

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The Oxford Companion to Wine by Julia Harding MW,Jancis Robinson OBE MW,Tara Q. Thomas Pdf

Everything you could possibly want to know about wine, in one fully up-to-date A-Z volume! The Oxford Companion to Wine is a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth A-Z reference book on every aspect of wine: more than 4,000 entries covering topics from history through geography, geology, soil science, viticulture, winemaking, packaging, academia, technology, and regulations to people and places, tasting, writing, and the language of wine. The system of cross-references takes the reader from one entry to another, showing how all these topics are interconnected in the fascinating story of wine in its most traditional and modern forms. This new fifth edition, which benefits from the knowledge and experience of over one hundred new contributors, all experts in their field or geographical region, is expanded by 272 new entries, and every existing entry has been reviewed, updated, and polished. The text is more international than ever, written for wine lovers of every persuasion, including those who love wine but want to know more in order to increase their enjoyment of this endlessly fascinating liquid, and those who are intent on studying wine, professionally or privately. This is a huge treasure trove of knowledge, for the first time breaking the barrier of one million words, but the alphabetical format and the links between the entries make it easily navigable, and the language, while not shying away from complex science, is intended to open the door to every curious reader looking for answers on every question they have ever wanted to ask about wine.

Author : Jancis Robinson,Julia Harding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780191016073

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The Oxford Companion to Wine by Jancis Robinson,Julia Harding Pdf

Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, as well as writer and woman of the year accolades for its editor on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion and wit, The Oxford Companion to Wine presents almost 4,000 entries on every wine-related topic imaginable, from regions and grape varieties to the owners, connoisseurs, growers, and tasters in wine through the ages; from viticulture and oenology to the history of wine, from its origins to the present day. More than 180 esteemed contributors (including 58 new to this edition) range from internationally renowned academics to some of the most famous wine writers and wine specialists in the world. Now exhaustively updated, this fourth edition incorporates the very latest international research to present 300 new entries on topics ranging from additives and wine apps to WSET and Zelen. Over 60 per cent of all entries have been revised; and useful lists and statistics are appended, including a unique list of the world's controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties, as well as vineyard area, wine production and consumption by country. Illustrated with almost 30 updated maps of every important wine region in the world, many useful charts and diagrams, and 16 stunning colour photographs, this Companion is unlike any other wine book, offering an understanding of wine in all of its wider contexts—notably historical, cultural, and scientific—and serving as a truly companionable point of reference into which any wine-lover can dip and browse.

Author : Seth C. Rasmussen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319063027

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The Quest for Aqua Vitae by Seth C. Rasmussen Pdf

Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, is one of the most ubiquitous chemical compounds in the history of the chemical sciences. The generation of alcohol via fermentation is also one of the oldest forms of chemical technology, with the production of fermented beverages such as mead, beer and wine predating the smelting of metals. By the 12th century, the ability to isolate alcohol from wine had moved this chemical species from a simple component of alcoholic beverages to both a new medicine and a powerful new solvent. Of course, this also began the long tradition of production of liqueurs and strong spirits for consumption. The use of alcohol as a fuel, however, did not occur until significantly later periods. This volume presents a general overview of the early history and chemistry of alcohol production and isolation, as well as a discussion of its early uses in both the chemical arts and medicine.

Author : Rebekah Welton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004423497

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‘He is a Glutton and a Drunkard’: Deviant Consumption in the Hebrew Bible by Rebekah Welton Pdf

In ‘He is a Glutton and a Drunkard’: Deviant Consumption in the Hebrew Bible Rebekah Welton uses interdisciplinary approaches to explore the social and ritual roles of food and alcohol in Late Bronze Age to Persian-period Syro-Palestine (1550 BCE–400 BCE). This contextual backdrop throws into relief episodes of consumption deemed to be excessive or deviant by biblical writers. Welton emphasises the social networks of the household in which food was entangled, arguing that household animals and ritual foodstuffs were social agents, challenging traditional understandings of sacrifice. For the first time, the accusation of being a ‘glutton and a drunkard’ (Deut 21:18-21) is convincingly re-interpreted in its alimentary and socio-ritual contexts.

Author : John Gadsby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Middle East
ISBN : NLI:1977903-10

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My Wanderings, Being Travels in the East in 1846-47, 1850-51, 1852-53 by John Gadsby Pdf

Author : William Rufus Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0021693061

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The Bible Class Reader; Designed for Day Schools, Sunday Schools, &c.; and to Assist and Interest Instructors of the Young, and Other Persons by William Rufus Nicholson Pdf

Author : Marijke van der Veen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0306461099

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The Exploitation of Plant Resources in Ancient Africa by Marijke van der Veen Pdf

This volume presents a completely new and very substantial body of information about the origin of agriculture and plant use in Africa. All the evidence is very recent and for the first time all this archaeobotanical evidence is brought together in one volume (at present the information is unpublished or published in many disparate journals, confer ence reports, monographs, site reports, etc. ). Early publications concerned with the origins of African plant domestication relied almost exclusively on inferences made from the modem distribution of the wild progenitors of African cultivars; there existed virtually no archaeobotanical data at that time. Even as recently as the early 1990s direct evidence for the transition to farming and the relative roles of indigenous versus Near Eastern crops was lacking for most of Africa. This volume changes that and presents a wide range of ex citing new evidence, including case studies from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Uganda, Egypt, and Sudan, which range in date from 8000 BP to the present day. The volume ad dresses topics such as the role of wild plant resources in hunter-gatherer and farming com munities, the origins of agriculture, the agricultural foundation of complex societies, long-distance trade, the exchange of foods and crops, and the human impact on local vege tation-all key issues of current research in archaeology, anthropology, agronomy, ecol ogy, and economic history.

Author : Clifford Gastineau
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780323146029

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Fermented Food Beverages in Nutrition by Clifford Gastineau Pdf

Fermented Food Beverages in Nutrition presents the proceedings of International Symposium on Fermented Food Beverages in Nutrition convened at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. It focuses on the contributions of alcoholic beverages in nutrition. It discusses the effects of specific alcoholic beverages, such as wine, beer, and certain distilled spirits, in human health. Organized into seven parts, encompassing 31 chapters, the book starts by discussing the history of alcoholic beverages and their nutrient contributions. Part II focuses on fermentation process, its history, biochemistry, nutrient synthesis by yeast, wine fermentation and aging, and beer brewing. Part III discusses the production and consumption trends of beer and wine, with emphasis on the changing attitudes of Americans toward wine consumption. Metabolism and therapeutic application of alcoholic beverages are examined in part IV. Discussions include role of alcoholic beverages in gerontology and ketogenesis, and the effect of alcoholic beverage incorporation into therapeutic diets. Part V highlights the effects of misuse and abuse of alcoholic beverages in various human body systems, including gastrointestine, pancreas, liver, and cardiovascular and nervous systems, as well as in cancer development and offspring effects during prenatal alcohol exposure. Parts VI and VII discuss the use of miniature swine as model for the study of human alcoholism and socioeconomic aspects of alcohol abuse. With the aim of bringing together existing factual knowledge concerning nutrition and health contributions of alcoholic beverages, this book is ideal for food scientists, nutritionists, dieticians, and researchers.