Take Control of Your Kitchen!: A Guide to Organizing Your Cooking Routines
Author: Collette M Rogers
"A kitchen organizing guide to make cooking both easy and enjoyable. Has kitchen layouts and more importantly explains the process of arranging an existing kitchen to get optimal use. Walks the novice and expert cook through a process of making meal-planning and cooking an easier task.
How to turn a kitchen into a place where it is easy to make meals people dream of cooking. Assists the novice to expert in setting up a kitchen to make it fun in which to cook. With step-by-step, simple approaches it helps organize a kitchen for easy use."
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House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
Author: Julia Flynn Siler
The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback: a scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that builtand then losta global wine empire Set in California's lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family, The House of Mondavi is a tale of genius, sibling rivalry, and betrayal. From 1906, when Italian immigrant Cesare Mondavi passed through Ellis Island, to the Robert Mondavi Corp.'s twenty-first-century battle over a billion-dollar fortune, award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler brings to life both the place and the people in this riveting family drama. A meticulously reported narrative based on more than five hundred hours of interviews, The House of Mondavi is a modern classic.
Barrons
Based on exhaustive research and interviews, each page is packed with facts and footnotes which, by dint of superb writing, manage to engage the reader and avoid the data brain-lock that would have plagued a less-talented journalist.
Eric Asimov
Call it Greek tragedy or Shakespearean drama, Biblical strife, Freudian acting out, or even soap opera. . . . Compelling. (Eric Asimov, The New York Times)
Wine Spectator - James Laube
Explores the Mondavis' bumpy journey in grand and fascinating detail. . . . Fluid and well-written.
BusinessWeek
A fascinating chronicle . . . a twisted tale filled with big egos, beautiful backdrops, and charismatic-yet-flawed characters who pull off towering feats and then throw them all away.
U.S. News & World Report
Epic
Seattle Post–Intelligencer
A first-rate job of creating a balanced view of this epic A merican drama. . . . T he book reads like a novel and her crisp style makes the book compelling regardless of whether the reader has an interest in wine. . . . It's a great summer read but it also belongs on the reference shelf of any wine library.
NPR Day to Day
A riveting story that is part soap opera, part Shakespearean family drama.