For centuries, wine has been associated with France more than with any other country. France remains one of the world`s leading wine producers by volume & enjoys unrivaled cultural recognition for its wine. If any wine regions are global household names, they are French regions such as Champagne, Bordeaux, & Burgundy. Within the wine world, French regions are still benchmarks for many wines. French Wine is the first synthetic history of wine in France-from Etruscan, Greek, & Roman imports & the adoption of wine by beer-drinking Gauls to its present status within the global marketplace. Phillips places the history of grape growing & wine making in each of the country`s major regions within broad historical & cultural contexts. Examining a range of influences on the wine industry, wine trade, & wine itself, the book explores religion, economics, politics, revolution, & war, as well as climate & vine diseases. French Wine is the essential reference on French wine for collectors, consumers, sommeliers, & industry professionals. ...

Showing you what others only tell you, the Eyewitness guide to French wines is perfect for any wine-lover- a visual guide to enjoying & appreciating French wine. It features fully revised & updated information on over 200 appellations & best vintages. From regional information & driving tours to recommended food pairings & details on how different wines are made, discover everything you need to know about the wines of France. ...

Mireille shares the secrets & strategies of aging with attitude & joy, offering personal anecdotes while divulging French women`s most guarded secrets about looking & feeling great. With her signature blend of wit, no-nonsense advice & storytelling flair she addresses everything from lotions & potions to diet, style, friendship & romance. For anyone who has ever spent the equivalent of a mortgage payment on anti-aging lotions or procedures, dressed inappropriately for their age, gained a little too much in the middle or accidentally forgotten how to flirt, here is a proactive way to stay looking & feeling great, without declaring bankruptcy or resorting to surgery. ...

This is the book we`ve all (certainly every woman between 25 & 75) been waiting for. It is classy, chic, convincing, funny, wise, well-written & very timely. It`s the ultimate non-diet book, which nonetheless shows us how to eat with balance, control & above all pleasure. Chuck out all the radical diet books, think about what you eat & why, & then enjoy eating the right things (and some of the wrong ones) intelligently, & in smaller portions. Eat, like a French woman, with your head not your stomach. Guiliano, French-born & bred, gets the tone absolutely right. She succeeds in that rare high-wire act of being really serious about her subject but without taking herself too seriously; manages to encourage & inspire & amuse, without being bossy or earnest. This is a book that will make you laugh out loud & yet have you following several of her practical precepts within days
- everyone who reads it becomes evangelical (French women don`t go to the gym, they climb the stairs). It combines just the right balance of memoir, wisdom, wit, delicious recipes, & French common sense. Guiliano emphasizes the virtues of freshness, variety, personal taste, enjoyment &, above all, portion control (research shows that dishes served in US restaurants are 25 per cent larger than those served in restaurants in France!).
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When ordering a cafe au lait in Paris, calamari in Venice, or bratwurst in Munich, it helps to speak some of the native tongue. Rick Steves, bestselling author of travel guides to Europe, offers well-tested phrases & key words to cover every situation a traveler is likely to encounter. This handy guide provides key phrases for use in everyday circumstances, complete with phonetic spelling, an English-French/ Italian/ German dictionary, the latest information on European currency & rail transportation, & even a tear-out cheat sheet for continued language practice. Informative, concise, & practical, ” Rick Steves` French, Italian & German Phrase Book” is an essential item for any traveler`s backpack. ...

It`s never too soon to start teaching boys & girls a second language, & this book presents pages filled with cheerful color pictures that help teach French words to English-speaking children in early grades. It presents more than 350 illustrations of familiar objects, with nine pictures on each page. Every picture is labeled with its English word, followed by its French equivalent. The translated word is followed in turn by a phonetic spelling in smaller type. Words are grouped according to themes, such as Sports, The Classroom, Fruit, Vegetables, Party Time, Weather, & many others. For example, the nine illustrations on the Sports page show pictures with bilingual labels for football, table tennis, skiing, fishing, gymnastics, athletics, cycling, swimming, & basketball. Here`s a fun way for younger English-speaking children to build a basic vocabulary in French. ...

Younger boys & girls have fun learning basic vocabulary in a second language when they open this book. It presents puzzles that use 14 child-friendly themes as it teaches French vocabulary to English-speaking children & English vocabulary to French-speaking kids. The themes include ” On the Farm, The Supermarket, Numbers & Months, At the Seashore, In the Classroom, Colors of the Rainbow, In the Country, ” & seven more. Each theme is presented twice on facing pages. The right-hand page gives English-speaking kids the puzzle to solve in French; & the left-hand page instructs French-speaking kids to solve the puzzle in English. Boys & girls learn words in the new language by working out crossword puzzles, completing word searches, joining the dots, filling in blank spaces, & playing several other word games. They get help in the form of picture clues, & they`ll find answers to all puzzles plus complete bilingual word lists at the back of each book. All puzzle pages feature cheerful color illustrations. ...

Raised in an orphanage, where he would take refuge in the kitchen to avoid the rough-&-tumble of the yard, Greg Marchand started cooking as teenager & completed culinary school in France. But then, with no one & nothing to keep him there, he left to cook in the great kitchens of the world, from Gramercy Tavern in New York to the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong. Six years ago, he returned home to become one of the most talked-about chefs in Paris. His food is an exceptional amalgam of French technique, reverence for fine product, & the best & most interesting flavours & methods he encountered during the 12 years he spent cooking around the world. His game-changing restaurant, Frenchie, has breathed new life into the French bistro scene, with food that is so exuberant, so interesting, that Anthony Bourdain has shot a No Reservations segment there. & it`s where those in the know, including Alice Waters & Ruth Reichl, go to eat while in Paris. ...

The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for freedom, honest love
- & sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. To escape the shallowness of court life, Dona retreats to Navron, her husband`s remote Cornish estate. There, she seeks peace in its solitary woods & hidden creeks. But she finds instead a daring pirate, hunted by all Cornwall, a Frenchman who, like Dona, would gamble his life for a moment`s joy. Together, they embark upon a quest rife with danger & glory, one which bestows upon Dona the ultimate choice: sacrifice her lover to certain death or risk her own life to save him.
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Stars, starlets, floozies & factotums of the film world
- Gervase Fen suspects them all. When young actress Gloria Scott throws
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