Eve Zibart
Content by Eve Zibart
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The one drawback to hauling a travel book along on your vacation is that it doesn't always fit into your pocket or purse, and may demand an undue proportion of your packing space.
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Those who find themselves wincing at the thought of spending another holiday dinner politely complimenting their father-in-law's unfortunate wine selection (are Chardonnays supposed to be sweet?) sho
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Jay McInerney's A Hedonist in the Wine Cellar, the second collection of his wine columns from House and Garden, is like a snapshot album of wine experiences, featuring a mix of big-name
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One of the nicest gifts you can give is wine and the version of wine that keeps on giving is a good wine book.
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For the wine lover, not the student, Ralph Steadman's Untrodden Grapes is the prime choice. Wine books are often predictable, but, happily, this is one great gonzo exception.
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In the 1997 film My Best Friend's Wedding, Julia Roberts, her curls tossing and her waistline improbably small, plays a glamorous New York restaurant critic who has chefs and managers qu
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Jacques Pepin walks very softly in an era of the big schtick.
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We think we live in an time of great cooking and we do but in 18th-century England, the worldwide boom in travel and trade was mirrored by housewives' discovery of an equally wide world of foods:
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Prince Alain de Polignac, a direct descendant of Madame Pommery and winemaker at his family's Champagne estate, believes women are better tasters than men that they have more direct access to sen
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Prince Alain de Polignac, a direct descendant of Madame Pommery and winemaker at his family's Champagne estate, believes women are better tasters than men that they have more direct access to senso
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Prince Alain de Polignac, a direct descendant of Madame Pommery and winemaker at his family's Champagne estate, believes women are better tasters than men that they have more direct access to sen
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Prince Alain de Polignac, a direct descendant of Madame Pommery and winemaker at his family's Champagne estate, believes women are better tasters than men that they have more direct access to sen
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Prince Alain de Polignac, a direct descendant of Madame Pommery and winemaker at his family's Champagne estate, believes women are better tasters than men that they have more direct access to sen
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I have a particular respect for Andrea Immer, one of only a handful of women master sommeliers and the first woman cellarmaster of Windows on the World.
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Graham Harding's A Wine Miscellany: A Jaunt Through the Whimsical World of Wine is the opposite of a coffee table book: It's a barstool volume, a collection of items concerning historical date
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Chef Frank Stitt revolutionizes Southern cooking Back in 1982, back when the only good restaurant towns in the South were (grudgingly) considered to be New Orleans and perhaps Charleston, Frank Sti
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Brett Lott is a constant stranger.
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In one of the most famous cases of man-on-the-street criticism, a London cabby once told Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that, while Sherlock Holmes might not have died when he went over the Reichenbach Fal
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The month of Halloween brings us Dracula The Un-Dead, a bone-chilling sequel to the classic and the latest in the classic novel revisionist craze.
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When I was only three or four, my parents took me to New York to spend a few days at the Plaza Hotel.
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An amusing stroll through Paris Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and a landmark biography of Jean Genet, has wandered Paris for 16 years, and seen it as only artists, and voyeurs,
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The mental connection one makes with a travel writer can sometimes be quirky.
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The mental connection one makes with a travel writer can sometimes be quirky.
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In 1985, Malcolm Forbes' son Kip, acting for his father, paid $156,000 for a bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite, part of a cache said to have been ordered by Thomas Jefferson but never delivered and found
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<B>California drinkin'</B> California wine tourism isn't exactly the next hot thing; it's been a mainstay of West Coast travel for many years now.
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<B>California drinkin'</B> California wine tourism isn't exactly the next hot thing; it's been a mainstay of West Coast travel for many years now.
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<B>California drinkin'</B> California wine tourism isn't exactly the next hot thing; it's been a mainstay of West Coast travel for many years now.
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There have been few sign-offs in television history more famous, or more frequently parodied, than the emphatic, "This is Julia Child: bon appetit!" And it was thoroughly characteristic s
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"Maybe I am so drawn to Sicily because I am half-Sicilian and the island is hard-wired into my genes," writes Theresa Maggio in The Stone Boudoir.
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The essays in Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass almost come up to a full bottle, and would have if author Natalie MacLean had only been supplied wit
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The status vs. price debate
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As might be guessed from the title, The Sommelier's Guide to Wine: A Primer for Selecting, Serving and Savoring Wine, by Culinary Institute of America professor Brian H.
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Master sommelier Andrea Immer, who has consistently sought to make even big-name wine accessible and appealing, is also a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, and this year she has turned both
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Almost exactly a century after America's first civil rights war began with the artillery shelling of Fort Sumter, the nation's second civil rights revolution was launched with a much quieter, but i
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In the summer of 1949. David Halberstam was 15, moving uncertainly into adolescence and looking longingly back over his shoulder at boyhood.
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<B>Let's get together</B> Dorothy J.
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<B>Let's get together</B> And for anyone or any group contemplating starting a wine tasting club, <B>Wine Spectator's Ultimate Wine Tasting Kit</B> would be ideal.
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Robert M.
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In 1993, Liz Tilberis could look back over a 25-year career as a fashion editor with satisfaction and more than a touch of glee.
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Wine books make corking good presents, and this year's offerings run the gamut from info-packed to irreverent.
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James Carville: Rollin' back into battle and runnin' for the state line James Carville is beginning to sound like Lamont Cranston's evil twin.
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Between the Wines Dreaming about faraway places can be as pleasurable as actually going there maybe even more, considering the complications that can unravel real travel.
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Sampling a tasty collection Drinking for me means only wine. . . . I believe in wine as I believe in Nature.
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BETWEEN THE WINES Tales of a wild Irish romp If Lawrence Donegan wasn't Scottish, he'd be Southern. It's in his rhythm, it's in his sense of humor, and frankly, it's in his packing style.
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Ex-rocker finds rhythm in Spain Just when you thought the wave of Year in Provence/Under the Tuscan Sun-style memoirs of psychically unfettered urbanites retreating to soul-satisfying rusticity h
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Bottling Magical Wine Ah, the summer novel, the literary vice that must hold serious publishers to their other virtues the rest of the year.
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Dining as the Romans do Okay, so this is another in the seemingly endless expatriate paeans to foreign culture published in the post-Year in Provence era.
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BETWEEN THE WINES Hugh Johnson's pretty mini-coffee table book, Tuscany and Its Wines is purely an excuse to daydream over Andy Katz's chiaroscuro-edged photographs of that lovely region.
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A Trip to the Beach: Living on Island Time in the Caribbean audio) is a cheery first-person recounting of how two Vermonters, Melinda and Robert Blanchard, t
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No man is an island, goes the prose; but with this charming, subtly premonitory and often disarming book, we are un-Donne.
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ETWEEN THE WINES Theroux's strangers in paradise "Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death." Thus begins Paul Theroux's latest volume of autobiogra
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EEN THE WINES It probably started with Nora Ephron, and almost certainly reached a high point with Ruth Reichl, but in the last few years the recipe-studded novel/memoir call it the kitchen-counter n
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Geoffrey Moorhouse is the kind of writer who reminds you that "Travel Literature" not just "Travel Guides" used to be a prominent section in good bookstores.
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Food as fantasy, food as fact, food as metaphor, food as motive food is inextricable from fiction, even in ordinary life, and Jim Crace's vision is anything but ordinary.
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An Iranian writer recalls her youth in the Land of No' It is perhaps the direst disaster that can befall a writer: the loss of his or her cherished books, diaries, notebooks, the ultimate evidence of
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This is something all Southern writers know: Truth makes the best fiction (and not infrequently, vice versa).
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The Eyewitness Companions series of travel guides is rightfully famous for its full-color photos and high-quality paper and for its intriguing details on famous buildings and personalities, but the f
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Andy Besch, a downsized TV executive who had ordered enough wine during his 30 years on an expense account to try his hand at selling the stuff himself, opened West Side Wines in Manhattan in 1999 an
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The 2005 vintage of wine writing has been a wide-ranging one, with books touching on the 1976 Paris tasting that blasted California's Napa Valley into the headlines, the great phylloxera blight and t
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For a country, and a generation, accustomed to immediate gratification, the idea of waiting for wine either to understand it or to enjoy it is only beginning to take hold.
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For a country, and a generation, accustomed to immediate gratification, the idea of waiting for wine either to understand it or to enjoy it is only beginning to take hold.
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For a country, and a generation, accustomed to immediate gratification, the idea of waiting for wine either to understand it or to enjoy it is only beginning to take hold.
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For a country, and a generation, accustomed to immediate gratification, the idea of waiting for wine either to understand it or to enjoy it is only beginning to take hold.
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For a country, and a generation, accustomed to immediate gratification, the idea of waiting for wine either to understand it or to enjoy it is only beginning to take hold.
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