The Atkins Shopping Guide: Indispensable Tips and Guidelines for Successfully Stocking Your Low-carb Kitchen

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What should I eat, and where can I find it?
Which products are the most Atkins-friendly?
Are there hidden dangers in seemingly "acceptable" foods?

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Whether you're one of the millions already losing weight and feeling great thanks to the remarkable Atkins Nutritional Approach™ or you are just discovering the healthy benefits of a low-carb lifestyle, shopping for food need no longer be a daunting process.

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With foods clearly arranged by category, this indispensable handbook takes you aisle-by-aisle through the supermarket, putting helpful information at your fingertips. It also provides useful pointers for shopping at "superstores" and natural foods retailers, all in a handy format portable enough to carry in your pocket or purse.

So throw away that misguided food pyramid chart and stop counting fat grams and calories. With The Atkins Shopping Guide, confusion about the right way to eat will be a thing of the past, as you follow the proven Atkins path to healthy living!

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What should I eat, and where can I find it?
Which products are the most Atkins-friendly?
Are there hidden dangers in seemingly ""acceptable"" foods?

Now Food Shopping the Atkins Way is Easier Than Ever!

The Atkins Shopping Guide contains everything you must know to stock your pantry with the right foods, while avoiding products devoid of nutrients and full of sugar and white flour.

With foods clearly arranged by category, this indispensable handbook takes you aisle-by-aisle through the supermarket, putting helpful information at your fingertips. It also provides useful pointers for shopping at ""superstores"" and natural foods retailers, all in a handy format portable enough to carry in your pocket or purse.

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bah...never pay real money for a glorified brochure.......2004-05-12

First off, my credentials: I lost fifty pounds on this diet. This is a review of this guide, not of the diet.

The beginning part of the book gives a brief, peppy rundown on the diet itself. It has some good information, but the tone is irritating. The phrase 'doing Atkins' may be colloquially understood, but it sounds amateurish and is heavily overused. No opportunity to pimp Atkins brand products is passed up. The result had me on edge by the time I began reading the actual shopping guide, and then it got worse.

The useful parts are those dealing with raw foods, ones that don't involve 'branding' (that's corporate newspeak for "ramming the product name into your head and keeping it there," folks): fruits, basic meats, cheeses. Gouda is gouda; tofu is tofu; beets are beets. Unfortunately, even these parts suffer from some degree of measurement inconsistency.

If you're going to compare nutritional facts from item to item, you have to use the same size portions for each item in a class. It is no good referring to 1/2 cup of most vegetables, then switching to 'half a baked potato' or 'two tablespoons'. Sure, the reader can convert, but isn't that why I bought the book? Pick a half cup and stick with it. Or an ounce. A ton. I don't care, as long as it's consistent, and the book's measurements are often so inconsistent as to be impractical for reference.

Where the book really begins to go south is when it comes to any form of 'branded' food. Atkins Nutritionals, or whichever branch of the Atkins empire put this out, has naturally listed Atkins brand products first in every category. Okay, fine, we're big kids and can read past this obvious shill; but even so, a lot of the other name brand products evaluated are going to change as the market reacts. That's going to make a big chunk of this book obsolete. Plus, the obvious placement of Atkins brand stuff first leaves a lingering suspicion: how did they choose the brands for the book? I can't find a lot of them on my local shelves. Is it possible that the ones chosen were those that would look undesirable relative to Atkins brand products? I don't know; I'm not a professional nutritionist or supermarket chain buyer. All I know is that the array of choices sure makes the Atkins stuff look like the best in every category. Funny how that worked, eh?

The problem with low-carb dieting, at this writing, is that our food providers have decided to brand a lot of their products with the 'low-carb' label, as if merely saying so will make it so. The guide states, correctly, that this stems from a lack of regulation. A balanced, professionally written guide would have been a great step forward; the message urged upon the reader from nearly every page of this book--"Just buy ours!"--is a step backward.

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Featuring more than 3,000 shops and services from fashion to home furnishings, Time Out's guide to shopping in London is both a practical resource and a fun read. This completely updated 11th edition searches out the latest shops and trends across the capital, while still reviewing old favorites. Comprehensive listings include hours of operation, prices, and which credit cards are accepted. Individual sections cover shopping throughout the year, one-stop shopping, food and drink, health and beauty, and more. This edition features new sidebars and color photographs throughout, along with updated maps and rechecked listings with the most current information.

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ATKINS SHOPPING GUIDE
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The Atkins Shopping Guide
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Meine Deutsche Küche

What a book...

all I expected

Decent Recipes, no pictures.

Two German Cookbooks Compared. This one wins!

The German Cookbook: A Complete Guide to Mastering Authentic German Cooking
Mimi Sheraton
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394401387
Release Date: 1965-10-12

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A complete cookbook, from the most elegant to the most basic, with every recipe tested for the American kitchen.

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Meine Deutsche Küche.......2007-08-08

Having spent several years in Germany, I was anxious to try and replicate various dishes I had experienced in restaurants and gasthauses there. What I have produced from the recipes in this book have been excellent. They may vary slightly from restaurant faire which is subject to the individuality of the chef, but they all seem genuine and have been quite enjoyable. If I have any complaint at all, it's that not all of the ingredients specified in the recipes are readily available in my area (suburban Philadelphia). It would be helpful if the author provided acceptible substitutes for the more aesthetic ingredients.

What a book..........2006-09-21

I like this book. It has a lot in it. The recipes are a little on the long side. The food is good. Most of the ingredients are easy to find. I like to use it for holidays and special meals a lot. To me German foods says Christmas.

all I expected.......2006-08-21

Great cookbook, mostly using ingredients available here in the midwest. Brings back fond memories of Grandma's kitchen.

Decent Recipes, no pictures........2006-04-08

This book has a TON of recipes in it. Many of these recipes are for German fare that I have never tried. I've made serveral dishes from the book, and I have a few comments based on these experiences.
-Some of the ingredients are difficult to find in my neck of the woods (parsley root, celery root, juniper berries)
-Some of the dishes are a bit bland if you follow the recipe exactly as written. I've found that I need to season some of the dishes a little more strongly to make them taste like anything.
-There are NO PICTURES. I don't have any idea as to how most of these dishes are supposed to look.
-The book has a very good variety of recipes including casseroles, meat dishes, side dishes, and desserts.
-Most of the recipes are quite easy to follow, other than those that call for live fish. Those are tough to come by in Iowa unless you are a fisherman.
In short:
Pros:
-Very complete
-Great variety of recipes
-Recipes are a great starting point for experimentation
Cons:
-No pictures
-Some Ingredients difficult to find
-Some dishes a bit bland if made exactly as printed.

Two German Cookbooks Compared. This one wins!.......2005-02-11

`The German Cookbook' by Mimi Sheraton and `The New German Cookbook' by Jean Anderson and Hedy Wurz are both written by leading American culinary writers. Although their publication dates are separated by thirty years, Ms. Sheraton's earlier book has been brought up to date at almost exactly the same time the newer book was published by Ms. Anderson and her co-author.

The raw numbers put Ms. Anderson at about 390 pages of recipes for a list price of $30 and Ms. Sheraton at about 500 pages of recipes for a list price of $35. Ms. Anderson includes an excellent bibliography of both English and German sources, including a reference to Ms. Sheraton's book. Ms. Sheraton has no bibliography, but includes the excellent feature of an English and a German index. Ms. Anderson includes a very nice glossary of German culinary terms. Ms. Sheraton's list of terms is much shorter, at the end of a short chapter on cooking utensils, which looks almost identical to such a section you would find in a good book on French recipes. In fact, it has a lot of similarities to a much more complete section in Julia Child's landmark `Mastering the Art of French Cooking' which appeared just a few years before Ms. Sheraton's book. While my primary objective is to compare the two German books, I will say at this point that neither comes close to matching the quality of Ms. Child's classic.

Ms. Sheraton, with the longer book, is claiming to be a complete guide to mastering authentic German cooking while Ms. Anderson specifically aims her book at `new' German cooking and avoids any claim to being a survey of all German cuisine (Ms. Sheraton does say, here and there, that there are some typical recipes which are simply so starchy and plain that she thinks they will be of no interest to American cooks, so she leaves them out). A quick look at the first few chapters confirms this assessment. In appetizers, Ms. Sheraton has 18 recipes while Ms. Anderson has but 10. In the next chapter on soups, Ms. Sheraton has 38 recipes while Ms. Anderson has but 25. And, Ms. Sheraton follows her soup chapter with a chapter on soup garnishes.

Which of these two books one may wish to buy has a lot to do with what you want from a `German cookbook'. I happen to be from a German and Pennsylvania German background, so I am looking for a wide variety of recipes for classic German and Austrian dishes. For this, I certainly prefer Ms. Sheraton's more complete coverage. I think the most typical buyer may be interested in a few famous German / Austrian recipes such as Sauerbraten, Sauerkraut, Spatzle, Wiener Schnitzel, Sausage dishes, and Strudel (It is entirely coincidental that all of these dishes start with an `S'). A comparison of all these dishes in both books shows that in every case, not only does Ms. Sheraton have more recipes, her recipes are also more complete.

One place where this is most dramatic is in the recipes for strudel. Ms. Anderson gives but one recipe for strudel, calling it a `Bavarian Strudel', and accurately stating that it is less like the classic Austro-Hungarian dish than like a cobbler. And, rather than giving a homemade recipe for the dough, Ms. Anderson's recipe uses frozen filo dough. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, as long as you are not buying her book to get a good classic strudel dough recipe. Ms. Sheraton does give us a full recipe for the classic Austrian strudel dough plus recipes for apple, cheese, cherry, plum, poppy seed, rhubarb, and Tyrolean strudel. Everything but cabbage strudel (however, there is a sauerkraut strudel recipe under sauerkraut recipes)! With sausage dishes, the picture is similar. Ms. Anderson has but three sausage dishes while Ms. Sheraton gives us ten.

Ms. Sheraton's recipes do tend to be just a bit more concise than those in Ms. Anderson's book. This is understandable since Ms. Sheraton says at the outset that her book assumes you know your way around the kitchen and know in practical terms, the difference between blanch and poach, for example. And yet, with very important recipes such as with sauerbraten and spatzle, two dishes which require considerably more than the average amount of technique, Ms. Sheraton's recipes are more descriptive than those from Ms. Anderson.

It is entirely appropriate that Ms. Anderson's co-author is a German travel writer, as one of the things in `The New German Cookbook' which is missing from `The German Cookbook' are sidebar stories describing the origins of most recipes.

The bottom line for all of this for Ms. Anderson's book is that it is very similar to a cookbook of recipes from a popular modern German restaurant. And, restaurant cookbooks are bought primarily to supply the reader with new ways of doing classic dishes and cute stories of how the executive chef came by the recipes. The main difference is that unlike recipes from great French and Italian restaurants, the recipes in Anderson's book are primarily simplified versions of the classics rather than fancy new twists.

Really want good recipes from the authentic, traditional German cuisine, get Ms. Sheraton's book. If you are so devoted to German recipes that Sheraton's book simply does not supply enough variety, get both books. Both books give good sketches of wine and beer production in Germany and there is little redundancy. Ms. Sheraton adds the extra touches of recipes for wine and beer based drinks and punches.

Ms. Sheraton's book is a reasonable addition for German cuisine to the great one volume treatments of ethnic cuisines done by Diane Kochilas on Greece, Diana Kennedy or Rick Bayless on Mexico, Penelope Casas on Spain, Barbara Tropp or Virginia Lee on China, Shizuo Tsuji on Japan, and Jean Anderson on Portugal!

Recommended as a standard on its subject.

The Wines Of Germany (Classic Wine Library)

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Great book, could use better maps.
Opinionated. Enlightening. And always entertaining.

The Wines Of Germany (Classic Wine Library)
Stephen Brook
Manufacturer: Mitchell Beazley
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ASIN: 1840007915

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Records of German wine shipments date back to the early 13th century—and yet, despite the fact that Germany’s wines are rich in history and renown, a large proportion of the wine-drinking public still looks down upon them. Multi-award-winning author Stephen Brook addresses the strange and complex question of why this has been so, focusing in on some controversial German wine laws and issues such as vineyard classification. In addition, he guides wine lovers to the top vintages and producers and the best vineyard sites, and discusses a wide range of grape varieties and lesser-known wine styles.

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Great book, could use better maps........2006-12-04

German wines are hugely underrated, even if they've enjoyed something of a renaissance in the last several years. Stephen Brook has written an excellent book on the subject, striking a good balance between detail on individual producers and giving an overview of trends and challenges in the field of German wine. I don't necessarily agree with all of his judgments (for example I think he underrates Weingart, now the top producer in the Mittelrhein), but for the most part he's spot-on. His discussions of the problems posed by the German wine law and the efforts at creating a system of classification are interesting and relevant.

The only reason I rated this book four rather than five stars is the poor quality of the maps. Of course I didn't expect that they would be as detailed or informative as those in Johnson's atlas (which unfortunately omits several important regions of Germany), but the maps in here are pretty embarrassing. It might have been better to not include them at all. The more recently published book in this series on Austria (an update of an earlier work) has much better maps. But that's a minor quibble about what is otherwise a very well-written and much needed book.

Opinionated. Enlightening. And always entertaining........2004-05-03

First, you should know that I'm far from a wine expert. I'm working hard to get past the "I just know I like this one" stage, reaching towards the state of "somewhat knowledgeable." Books like this are helping me achieve that goal, however.

The Wines of Germany is essentially organized in two parts. The first five chapters give an overview of the unique issues of the German wine landscape, covering the wine law of Germany; vineyard classification; German wine styles; going to market; and the German grape varieties.

The rest of the book is devoted to wines from each region, covering both the obvious regions (such as Rheingau and Nahe) and the regions that other dismiss in a few paragraphs (such as Sachsen and Saale-Unstrut). In each of those chapters, he begins with an overview that discusses everything from the hectares devoted to winemaking ("The Rheingau has about 3,200 ha of vines, grown by 1,500 owners") to the geology to wine-growing history to the current market conditions. For each region, Brook discusses both individual vineyards and the producers. In other words, you can look up a wine by the village it comes from, and by a particular winery. (Some wineries, after all, have vines in more than one area.) Oh -- and there are excellent maps.

That sounds EVER so dry, but gosh -- it really isn't. What Brook does amazingly well is both explain what the issue is (such as the 1971 wine law), what it means to the winemakers and thus to the consumer, and how it'll affect the wines you buy (and their cost). Nor does he shy away from the politicial issues.I finally understand why the German wine labels are so confusing, for example, and why it took an entire chapter to make it understandable!

He's also immensely entertaining, and extremely opinionated, both about the wines and their producers, and the larger issues surrounding them. For example, he says, "Baden wines and Baden wine marketing are, in short, a bit of a mess. No one is particularly motivated to sort it out. Individualist growers simply go their own way and trust in the quality of their wines to secure a share of the market."

But what about the wine ratings? After all, that's probably why you're considering buying this book. He gives great, pages-long coverage to the most visible of the wineries, the ones most likely to be imported to the U.S. (such as Prum and Dr Loosen), but don't expect a bottle-by-bottle rating. For instance, he says of Dr Loosen, "...the Wehlener Sonnenuhr is invariably racy and zesty and delicate, as it should be, whereas the Urziger Wurzgarten is more spicy..." He does mention vintages, but usually in regard to the region rather than an individual producer. But if you want to compare his opinion to yours, for a bottle you just brought home from the store, you may be disappointed; several sites and wineries get only a paragraph or so. On the other hand, with a book this complete, at least you can be reasonably sure that your bottle, no matter how obscure, will be mentioned.

What you *won't* find here is any kind of travel guide for visiting wineries. If that's any part of your goal, you'll also want to pick up a copy of A Traveller's Wine Guide to Germany. (I suppose it's dated, now, but it's far better as a tool for exploring the wine regions.)

Overall, I've found this the best book on German wines around. Well worth the money.

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Dated, but a Classic

Where the Great German Wines Grow: A Guide to the Leading Vineyards (Hastings House Classics Series)
Hans Ambrosi
Manufacturer: Hastings House / Daytrips Publishers
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ASIN: 0803820712
Release Date: 2007-03-05

Book Description

If you plan to visit Germany's beautiful wine country in person or take an imaginary trip there, you will find this book a valuable guide to the individual estates and their specialties. Wine technology is carefully explained, but Dr. Ambrosi's descriptions will capture your imagination with stories of the estates and their monastic, aristocratic proprietors, the vineyards in their idyllic settings, the estate buildings, the castles, the mansions, the old cellars and the fine wines themselves. This book stands out among wine books with its clear systematic presentation of a vast quantity of detailed information. When you decide to visit, you will know what to see, what to taste, and how to get there. Whether or not you have ever been in a wine cellar, you will soon learn about your favorite wines, look up the estates where they were produced, and with pen-and-ink vignettes, maps, and reproductions of many labels, be able to imagine yourself visiting the picturesque estates, tasting the wines, and hearing the family histories of the great wine growers and vineyard owners.

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Dated, but a Classic.......2007-07-10

I own the original, German version of this book ("Wo große Weine wachsen", I think it's called--circa 1974.) I am glad to have this book because it's a classic in its field, but quite dated. It contains considerable information for a few well-known and high-quality wine estates in Germany, as they were then, and is good to have as a reference. It's possible that the information has been updated in the English version, which I have not seen.

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Great Book
The Wines of Germany
A Good Reference Guide To German Wines.
Biased and unfair
Best book on German Wines

German Wine Guide
Armin Diel , and Joel Payne
Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
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Great Book.......2003-01-20

I enjoy owning this book. My favorite wine is Riesling and favorite terroir is Germany, especially Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. This book has that covered.

Granted, some of the vintage information is three years old. However, the reputations of the wineries has not changed that much. Vintages matter more in Germany and most European areas and much less so in places like California. However, much of that information can be applied equally to all German wineries, so looking online for general vintage information will do just as well -- the relative ratings in the book will still apply, so they are still helpful.

I also dislike using German currency, even though it is a German book that was translated (and translated exceptionally well, I might add). I would have preferred seeing prices in US currency for different price ranges.

A couple of (very short) sections seem to be a marketing campaign for German wines (perhaps that is how it is seen in the industry, as I would suspect, so that would be acceptable). This only amounts to a handful of pages, so not that bothersome.

There are good miniature tutorials on German terminology, wine labels, grapes, Pradikat and other classifications. There are 30 color photographs of different vineyard owners/managers. There are several different sections listing the best estates, along with the author's favorite picks from different wines.

The following sections are covered, with many estates from each section:

Ahr
Baden

Franken
Hessische Bergstrasse
Mittelrhein
Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
Nahe
Pfalz
Rheingau
Rheinhessen
Saale-Unstrut
Sachsen
Wurttemberg

Each section has a description of that area as well as a scaled map. Immediately after that is a brief list of names broken down into their rating. For example, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer has 6 five-grape, 15 four-grape, 22 three-grape, 20 two-grape and 5 one-grape ratings. There are an additional 26 "other notable producers" that do not have detailed pages for those estates.

Each rated estate has a full page (or more) with great information about each. Besides access information (owner, address, phone, fax, directions, hours, history, etc.), there is a box about recent productions. This includes the vineyard area (in hectares), annual production (in bottles), top site, soil types, grape varieties (by percentage), average yield (hl/ha) and best vintages of that time. After that is a commentary on the vineyard as well as ratings of some 10 to 20 wines. After that is a black-and-white photo of the vineyard label, which is greatly helpful when looking for the wines at a wine shop.

At the back of the book are sections on the best sparkling wines, Marc and Fine, information bureaus and wine glasses.

Overall, it is an excellent and useful tool for German wines. Well worth the price, which is hardly more than a single bottle from most of the good wines of this region. Definitely a book to own and know.

The Wines of Germany.......2002-04-11

"German Wine Guide"
Armin Diel and Joel Payne
ISBN 0-7892-0577-7

This book with the unassuming title is an encyclopedia of German wines. It has no pictures of scenery or vineyards. But it has photos of a number of German wine producers, an unusual touch, some of their labels, and some of their wine advertisements. This is a very serious wine book. It is not so much a book to be read as much as one to be studied. Most of it consists of ratings and listings of wines region by region in a highly systematic manner. One of the authors of this book, Armin Diel is a wine producer in Germany himself. In the past, I have enjoyed a bottle of wine from his estate in the Nahe wine region and read a little about the wines produced there.

Although I have no serious expertise on German wines - this book re-assured me of that - over the years I have tried wine in about half of the thirteen wine regions described in this book and tasted wine from others. The mention of the names of familiar towns and wines in Germany made this book interesting for me. Someone who is unfamiliar with Germany and these regions might grow tired of reading the lists of wine produced by various estates in them. In other words, this is probably not the right book for a person beginning to learn about German wines. It seems to me that it is more for someone who already knows something about them.

The authors give the prices, in marks, of the wines in this book, and some might be surprised to learn that a nice bottle of wine, including some of those listed here, can be had in Germany for as little as a few dollars. Another surprise is that there is even information in this book about two not too well known wine regions in the former East Germany, Saale-Unstrut and Sachsen, although they are apparently as yet not highly regarded.

One disappointment about this book, no fault of the authors, is that a good deal of what one reads about in it is not widely available in the United States. This is like reading an appealing menu without being able to order. Even in cities like Austin where I live, a good selection of German wines is difficult to come by.

As suggested earlier, it would be difficult to describe this book as "a read", but it is an excellent reference. The next time I go to Germany, along with my German dictionary, I intend to take this book. Prost!

A Good Reference Guide To German Wines........2000-08-14

This book is a tremendous help, in that it provides an in depth look at "The Best-Kept Sceret of The Wine World."

The point of departure is the 13 wine-growing regions, the names of the major wine producers and how they ranked based on the performance of their last 5 vintages. There is a brief history of the estates along with 'phone numbers should you wish to contact them directly. Cellar door prices are listed in German Marks, which is useless, unless you are in Germany and are going to buy from the producers directly. The authors give their recommendations about drinking dates and offer a good illustrated section on the various labels, and how to decipher them. Clearly, with profiles on 400 vintners and the 3,000 different wines which are rated, this book goes well beyond Riesling and Gewurtztraminer. That alone makes it well worth having.

Biased and unfair.......2000-06-19

The book is good for listing producers but the ratings are very biased and unfair. Unfortunately, there is no other major German wine book, that is current. Two scandals of fall 99 and spring 2000 revealed that the samples are not tasted blind and that Armin Diel even sold leftover samples. The wines of the top producers are great, no doubt, but the better values are found elsewhere. The authors have certainly helped Herman Doennhoff for example to establish his high pricelevel, while I found the wines of 99 that I tasted were not to that level. Great other winemakers are left out, because they do not grease the wheel, just make great wine. Check out the producers with the lower ranking and you find best values.

Best book on German Wines.......1999-07-17

This is the best book I've seen so far on German wines, with comprehensive coverage of wine- producing areas and firsthand information on more producers than any other book I can think of.

The reviews are concise and the ratings seem objective enough to me, with no punches held back when called for. For example, the book has a 5-star rating system, but unlike other books which rarely give anyone less than 2 stars, this book lists quite a few producers as 1 or NO stars!

The book ranks 12 producers as the top in Germany, and argues that they are among the best in the world. I have experienced wines made by 8 out the 12, and agree what the authors say.

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The Gault Millau Guide to German Wines (Gault Millau Guides) Soft Cover
Armin Diel , and Joel Payne
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In the last decade more and more German wines are again finding distribution in the U.S. The whites are light and elegant and offer great value; in particular the German Rieslings compete well with any other grape variety.

Divided by the major districts, the Gault Millau Guide to German Wines describes the individual regions, and their history and geography, commenting on well established growers and little-known, very often family-run vineyards.

This is an in-depth analysis and critique of the current German wine culture. It's layout is concise and clear, and the rating system is user-friendly. The range is vast and thorough, covering contact information for the producers, best estates, wines of the last three years, and a label primer. The Gault Millau Guide to German Wines embraces the whole spectrum of the world's most under-rated wine country and emphasizes the trend for elegant German Rieslings, Silvaner, and Muller Thurgau grapes, and the increasingly important Pinot Noirs.

The Atlas of German Wines and Traveller's Guide to the Vineyards

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Hugh Johnson
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THE INTERNATIONAL WINE AND FOOD SOCIETY'S GUIDE TO GERMAN COOKERY

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Hans Karl Adams
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Hans Karl Adam
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Ian Jamieson
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THE SIMON & SCHUSTER POCKET GUIDE TO GERMAN WINES

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THE SIMON & SCHUSTER POCKET GUIDE TO GERMAN WINES

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HF4T7S

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