Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143128090ISBN-10:143128094UPC:9780143128090Book Category:Cooking, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Beverages, Essays & Narratives, CulinaryBook Topic:Alcoholic- GeneralSize:7.90 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SC0HHJ49H4
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK "Thrilling . . . told] with gonzo lan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she's not wrong, though Bill Buford's Heat is probably a shade closer." --Jennifer Senior, The New York Times Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn't know much about wine--until she discovered an alternate universe where taste reigns supreme, a world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavor. Astounded by their fervor and seemingly superhuman sensory powers, she set out to uncover what drove their obsession, and whether she, too, could become a "cork dork." With boundless curiosity, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism, 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 most nagging question of all: what's the big deal about wine? What she learns will change the way you drink wine--and, perhaps, the way you live--forever. "Think: Eat, Pray, Love meets Somm." --theSkimm "As informative as it is, well, intoxicating." --Fortune
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143128090ISBN-10:143128094UPC:9780143128090Book Category:Cooking, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Beverages, Essays & Narratives, CulinaryBook Topic:Alcoholic- GeneralSize:7.90 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SC0HHJ49H4
Bianca Bosker is an award-winning journalist who has written about food, wine, architecture, and technology for The New Yorker online, The Atlantic, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The New Republic. The former executive tech editor of The Huffington Post, she is the author of the critically acclaimed book Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China (University of Hawaii Press, 2013). She lives in New York City.
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