The Sommeliers Guide to Wine or Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes

The Sommelier's Guide to Wine: A Primer for Selecting, Serving, and Savoring Wine

Author: Brian H Smith

A leading wine educator from the esteemed Culinary Institute of America offers this engaging, in-depth introduction to the often intimidating world of wine. Brian H. Smith has distilled his years of experience into this beautifully illustrated, streamlined guide to oenology. His goal is twofold: to provide a basic text for aspiring wine professionals; and to give wine lovers the confidence and savvy to navigate the wine list in a restaurant or the aisles of the local wine store. The Sommelier's Guide to Wine is an insider's tour of the making, tasting, selecting, and serving of wine. It takes readers from grape types and wine-making methods through buying, ordering and presenting all varieties of wine. It is an invaluable tool for becoming a great wine waiter - or a smart consumer.

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Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes: Includes Exchange List and Carbohydrate Counts for Traditional Foods from the American South and Caribbean

Author: Constance Brown Riggs

Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes is a comprehensive guide that provides nutrition information and carbohydrate-counts for foods that will appeal to African Americans who suffer from diabetes.

Author Constance Brown-Riggs, a certified diabetes educator with over twenty-five years of experience, shares her vast knowledge of nutrition and dietetics in order to encourage African Americans to prepare and enjoy traditional ethnic fare from the American South and the Caribbean while maintaining normal glucose levels and healthy food intake. As she encourages all people with diabetes to shed pounds, improve food choices, and exercise, Brown-Riggs provides important resources and valuable tips:

• A description of the Diabetes Soul Food Pyramid
• An extensive listing of traditional foods from the South and Caribbean
• Fast food and brand-name nutrient information and label-reading advice
• A two-week soul food menu plan and sample food diary
• A dictionary of food terms
• Tips for upscale dining

  Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes will not only provide life-saving information for people with diabetes but will also educate their families and serve as an excellent resource for health care providers and diabetes and dietetics professionals.