Coffee Roasting at Home or Learning Annex Presents the Pleasure of Wine

Coffee Roasting at Home: The Magic Bean

Author: Susan Sanders

This book contains easy, step-by-step instructions and recipes which enable you to roast coffee at home using household appliances. Includes instructions for a hot air popper method, stove top method, oven method, and for home roasting machines. Roasting coffee at home is easy and fun to do. Using high quality green beans you can quickly create a roast to surpass specialty coffee roasts.

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Learning Annex Presents the Pleasure of Wine

Author: The Learning Annex

Learn what you need to know about wine–in a single evening!

Though more and more Americans enjoy wine each year, many still feel intimidated by the subject. The image of the wine snob – swirling glass in hand, taking luxurious sniffs, and spouting obscure factoids about the vintage – persists, making the rest of us feel lost in a seemingly elite world.

In fact, anyone and everyone can appreciate wine. The Learning Annex Presents the Pleasure of Wine is a straightforward guide that squeezes a seminar’s worth of information into a book and answers questions such as:

• What are the different types of wine?

• What kinds of wine come from France, Italy, North America, Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, and South America?

• How do I taste wine, and how do I pair wine with food?

• What are some fun ways to integrate wine into my life?

Full of sidebars and other special features, The Learning Annex Presents the Pleasure of Wine gives you the tools and knowledge you need to select, judge, and enj oy wine – and all in a single night’s reading!

Table of Contents:

Lesson 1	What Is Wine?	1
Lesson 2	How to Appreciate Wine	17
Lesson 3	White Wines	29
Lesson 4	Red Wines	37
Lesson 5	Special Wines	45
Lesson 6	North America's Wine Regions	57
Lesson 7	France's Wine Regions	75
Lesson 8	Italy's Wine Regions	91
Lesson 9	Other European Wine Producers	103
Lesson 10	Wine Regions of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa	123
Lesson 11	South America's Wine Regions	135
Lesson 12	Buying Wine	141
Lesson 13	Getting Started with Wine	161
Lesson 14	Pairing Wine with Foods	183
Lesson 15	Fun Things to Do with Wine	199
Appendix A	Wine Pronunciation Guide	207
Appendix B	Resources and Recommended Reading	209
Appendix C	Glossary of Wine Terms	213
	Index	219