Brandy : a global history / Becky Sue Epstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Becky Sue, 1952- author.

Series:

Edible

Edible series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brandy.

Physical Description:

151 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2014.

Summary:

Includes a selection of recipes In Cognac there is a belief that a healthy brandy cellar must contain lots of spiders, Legend has it that when the Bolsheviks breached the Winter Palace in 1917, the entire revolution paused for a week while the revolutionaries drank up the Tsars incredible brandies, Because of its 'medicinal qualities', cognac was the only liquor allowed to be imported into the U.S. during Prohibition, When Stalin gave Winston Churchill Georgian brandy during the Yalta talks in 194s, Churchill considered it as fine as cognac, Peruvian pisco is an unaged, clear brandy Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Alchemy: From Classical Civilizations to Cognac 15

2 Producing Brandy: Distilling and Ageing 22

3 Cognac Becomes World-famous 31

4 Armagnac and its Noble History 41

5 Illustrious Brandies of Europe and the Caucasus 54

6 Great Spanish and Latin Brandies 69

7 Australia and South Africa 83

8 Brandy Made in America 91

9 Everything You Need to Know about Cognac 99

10 Cognac Cocktails and 21st-century Trends 110

11 Small-batch Brandies and Cognacs 117.

ISBN:

1780233485

9781780233482

OCLC:

870663441