James Tidwell

OK we're doing a giveaway, which I am calling Once Upon a (Forbidden) Tome the prize? a special ⭐️annotated⭐️ copy of @deathbybadger's Once Upon a Tome containing Secrets and Confessions I did not include in the book to enter 1. RT ♻️ this post 2. 🤝 follow us (ends 2nd Nov 22)

@timatkin Thanks for this @timatkin! I don’t have that one, but do have several others from that era and just after with recipes to make various styles. This one is remarkably specific!

We think wine fakes are something new. This book, published in 1899, tells people how to make fake Lafite, among other things. #winefraud

@omnivorebooks Wow!

Oh, just Harold McGee and Rose Levy Beranbaum catching up in the shop.

Austria's Wine Producers is a free ebook guide to the wines and producers of Lower Austria and the Burgenland, by @StephenPBrook. See just how diverse Austrian wine can be. Download free on Apple Books, Google Play and Kindle + others.

@omnivorebooks If you are the imbibing sort, then you can sub drinking Champagne as an accompaniment. Acid (and bubbles) balance and cut the fat. Or use both!

One cooking idea Chris Scott mentioned today was sprinkling lemon zest on just-fried chicken. The acid balances and cuts the fat.

More wine publishing news as @hawk_wakawaka departs her role amid restructuring detailed in adweek.com/media/recurren… Wishing Elaine the best seems unnecessary as we know she is the best at the type of work she does. Instead, will say: looking forward to your next ventures!

@deathbybadger @Sotherans I knew there were secrets! Arcane and esoteric knowledge is part of why I went into the wine trade. Wondering how similar some aspects of rare books and wine are. Time for a tome so I can find out!

@winejames @Sotherans 😃 ah you are about to discover all our secrets...

Today’s #bookmail contained a special treat from the UK. Visited ⁦@Sotherans⁩ often on trips to London. Been awaiting ⁦@deathbybadger⁩ writings about what I believe to be my dream job. Cannot wait to read his account of the rare book trade!

@arkhamlibrarian How would one even search for this? I am impressed with the find, however you arrived at it. As a sci-fi fan and preacher’s son who grew up in the Satanic panic, it is intriguing.

@winejames I got this on eBay but I honestly can’t remember what I was searching for—certainly not this!

Yes this is a real book, containing pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. #DailyPaperback 1978

@pangalactic Not sure if you have experimented with local wines, but with your posts of Spanish/Italian wines some of the Turkish reds could be of interest. The Öküzgözü-Boğazkere blends are classics for the country. Enjoyed discovering more of them when I was there.

@pangalactic Not excusing poor wine service. Offering modifier. Turkey has a climate where wine storage an issue, and heat kills wine. Easier to warm than chill. But, frigid temps can cover flaws and sometimes bring out astringency in that style. Neither ideal, but cold better than hot.

Just been served a bottle of Chianti that's been chilled and I have Questions

@danielbowmanjr Agreeing with others: Babette’s Feast. Several of the “food movies” have a soulful gentleness about them, but this is the one that set the standard for me.

@typepunchmatrix That typeface!

This club banger is now available on our website: typepunchmatrix.com/pages/books/46…

This 1973 book of interior design goes extremely hard

@arkhamlibrarian So glad you got them. I did not read “The Brain Pickers” before shipping so please let us know if it lives up to that tagline!

I’m so touched and grateful for these delightful new acquisitions generously sent by @winejames. I seriously cannot think of a more enticing tagline than “The Peyton Place of the Publishing Industry.” #DailyPaperback

“Catalán aficionado serenely contemplates a glass porrón full of his favorite wine.” Possibly my new favorite wine photo (noted as by Dick Frisell) in Adventures in Taste courtesy of today’s #bookmail from @omnivorebooks

Delightful #bookmail today! 1972 book of Spanish wine and folk food including thorough but concise wine info, recipes, foldout maps of recommended trips, stats, and much more packed into 300 pages. Had never seen this book before. Thx for the rec @omnivorebooks !

@arkhamlibrarian Recalled this tweet when I found this book in my local shop. If you do not have it but is of interest then I am happy to ship to you.

Spent way way WAY too much time looking for this. Finding a book in my house is beyond needle in haystack. I’m working on revising my essay about women in the paperback publishing industry.

I am on a 3-week research leave, starting yesterday. Solely for my own accountability, I’m starting this as a thread of what I’m working on. Feel free to mute.

@PhilipReedman @PigottRiesling @robertjoseph @jamiegoode For an idea of adoption timeline, the UK Guild of Sommeliers (which pre-dated CMS) did not use the terms in an early 1970’s exam syllabus. The organization’s Wine-Butler magazine was using New World in articles by early ‘8o’s.

@PigottRiesling @robertjoseph @jamiegoode Ask @winejames he’s well read on this sort of thing.

@robertjoseph @jamiegoode and everyone. I am desperately trying to find out when #NewWorldWine became a term applied not only to the wines of the Americas, but also those from other continents. I can find no evidence of latter meaning until the 1980s. Did I miss something?

@PhilipReedman @PigottRiesling @robertjoseph @jamiegoode Not in reach of my library until tomorrow but I will look a few places when I return. Was thinking either Hugh Johnson or Michael Broadbent might have contributed, and just saw Hugh Johnson’s note.