Wine Snobbery : an exposé / Andrew Barr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barr, Andrew.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wine and wine making.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (donor)

Physical Description:

336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [1992]

Contents:

Foreword: The British Edition

Part One. 1. Prohibition and the Wine Boom; 2. The American Sweet Tooth; 3. Red Wine in Restaurants; 4. Writers and Collectors; 5. Wine Tastings are Bunk

Part Two. Introduction: Art and Agriculture. 6. A Kind of Makeup; 7. The Sun in Sacks; 8. The Champagne Game; 9. The Law is an Ass; 10. Varietal Worship; 11. Old Wine in New Bottles; 12. Keeping up with the Jayers; 13. The Falemian Syndrome; 14. What's Your Poison?

Conclusion. 15. A Plea for Flavor.

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Limited"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

067170804X (cloth) :

9780671708047

OCLC:

26161930