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In Search of Bacchus, George Taber
Liquid Memory: Why Wine Matters, Jonathon Nossiter
When the River's Ran Red, Vivienne Sosnowski
Romancing the Vine, Life, Love and Transformation in the Vineyards of Barolo, Alan Tardi
http://mowse.blogspot.com/2011/03/book-review-passion-of-vine.html, Sergio Esposito
Wine Drinking Culture in France: A National Myth or a Modern Passion, Marion Demossier
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, Daniel Okrent
A Toast to Bargain Wines: How innovators, iconoclasts, and winemaking revolutionaries are changing the way the world drinks, George M. Taber
Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920, Andrew P. Haley
Yes, Chef: a memoir, Marcus Samuelson
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