Cork Dork
A Wine-fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 587 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
With boundless curiosity, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism, professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, California mass-market wine factories, and even a neuroscientist's fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the question: What's the big deal about wine?
Series: Thorndike Press large print lifestyles.
Contents:
The rat -- The secret society -- The showdown -- The brains -- The magic kingdom -- The orgy -- The quality control -- The ten commandments -- The performance -- The trial -- The floor -- Epilogue: the blindest tasting.
Subjects:
Bosker, Bianca -- Friends and associates.
Wine and wine making -- Social aspects.
Journalists -- United States.
Sommeliers -- United States.
Large type books.
Bosker, Bianca -- Friends and associates.
Wine and wine making -- Social aspects.
Journalists -- United States.
Sommeliers -- United States.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781432844257
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LP LITERATURE Bos | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/8/2024) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.