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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
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"The Cynic's Guide to Wine, by Sunny Hodge… is one of the best wine books I have read in a long while." — Yorkshire Post"All in all it's a very useful and enjoyable read..." — Life“…if you are remotely curious about the science of wine, this is an excellent guide. I found myself questioning some of my own beliefs, and while I may not be ready to discard them, “The Cynic’s Guide to Wine” is a timely reminder of the importance of skepticism in all facets of wine.” — NY Times Much of what is written about wine, whether in wine books, on bottle labels or in the Sunday supplements uses language that gives wine an air of mystery. While compelling and enticing for the consumer this can also lead to confusion regarding the science of wine as well as fear on the part of the inexperienced wine drinker of ‘getting wine wrong’. In The Cynic’s Guide to Wine Sunny Hodge strips wine back to its basic science and unravels the facts behind wine flavours, showing readers a clear path through the verbiage. The text takes in elements of horticulture, soil science, botany and sensory science as well as oenology and is provided in bite-sized chunks aimed at the curious non-scientist. This is a straightforward and eye-opening book for anybody who has ever wanted to question the stories told around wine but was afraid to ask. The wine book all novice wine drinkers need: strips away the pretension and explains what really matters when it comes to producing the flavours in your glass of wine.Questions many of the things we take for granted when it comes to wine, from terroir to the science of wine making.Author is the award-winning owner of two London wine bars who has earned a reputation as a disruptor in the wine trade.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
438 kr
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Stray Pavements begins with a family and ends at a boy. Its a fabricated tale of growth and freedom in modern day society. The setting is London city, an uncertain environment for one married couple who have fled their exotic little island to seek a better life in Englands capital. We begin with Sister, mother of this makeshift family, whom at an early age had her dreams of becoming a professional athlete curbed, and was decisively thrown into the confines of housewifery along with the torment of an abusive husband. Time bides slowly, and long days of work and tending to her husband leave her morose. Soon her dysfunctional world is torn askew with the timely death of her first born, so she decides to escape, and whisks her only remaining child Didecan up in her arms to save him from a life she knew all too well.Her new life finds her back on the running track. With the help of an understanding and supportive coach she earns a solid reputation in her event, soon competing for her new nation in the Commonwealth games. Her running career thrives, as does her understanding of other cultures around her, and gracefully she matures to a woman and a mother that she can admire and respect. All the while with Didecan growing up, we start to see her world through his eyes and mood.His mothers remarriage takes the family to a new house in a leafy suburb, and leads Didecan onto the path of a structured education. Throughout the course of this fiction we are challenged with stray thoughts and manifestations of consciousness, they expel sporadically and without restraint, cutting the plot into segments of memory. Our closeness to Didecan varies, and develops in time as he matures. We follow him through differing depths of awareness, and at times we, the reader, become a part of his conscious mind. These blips of introversion, or realisation, if you wish, which leak into the narrative, are essential in understanding Didecans honest emotion. Mandatory visits to his biological father every weekend only seek to mar his opinions on a culture his parents left behind them, and in turn he proceeds to nurture a sense of animosity towards his father. The early responsibilities and trust he became burdened with at adolescence, have only differentiated him at school, and a sense of not fitting in spurs him onwards to challenge himself as an individual. Outside of his new found stability at school and home, he wanders the streets with a companion from school. The two steadily find themselves captivated by the art of rollerblading and the culture it breeds, brought about by a generation of children who roam concrete corridors. They walk a path riddled with crime and violence, and learn what it means to feel free from the whims of society. But these experiences age him, and we draw rapidly nearer to his opinion, as his awareness of the world grows. Rigorous schooling taints his aspirations for wealth and prosperity, for he seeks a greater sense of satisfaction within a city rife in falsified pleasure. His struggle draws within that narrow margin of separation between the strict confines of inner city strife and juvenile urgings for independence. Quickly, he learns his boundaries on the streets, a series of hard hitting altercations leaves him weary of the ruined path that lies ahead, so he turns his attention back to work and institution.At university he starts to feel even more of the misfit, he cant understand other students of his age, and couldnt fathom why they strived so arduously to fit in. He dwells on what it means to be an individual, and ponders his fitting in the world, realising that knowing what one definitely doesnt want to do is nowhere near as simple as realising what makes oneself content. So with the help of a close friend he sets a deadline for himself, thirty three years of age, and within this time frame finds himself compelled to reach contentedness, or hell simply end it.He enjoys his working part time at his res