Alpana Pours: About Being a Woman, Loving Wine, and Having Great Relationships

Alpana Singh

ISBN 10: 0897335465 / ISBN 13: 9780897335461

Edité par Academy Chicago Publishers, 2006

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new. Book inscribed by author to previous owner.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Alpana Pours: About Being a Woman, Loving Wine, and Having Great Relationships
• Éditeur: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0897335465
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780897335461
• Reliure: Soft cover
• État de l'article: As New
• Signé: Inscribed by Author

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Synopsis

Alpana Pours is a unique lifestyle book with wine as the centerpiece. Since American women purchase and consume more wine than American men, 77% and 60% respectively, a voice is needed to help women understand that their busy professional and social lifestyles can be well paired with wine. Master Sommelier and successful television host Alpana Singh, twenty-nine, happens to be just the person who can help them do it.

Alpana Singh is uniquely qualified to talk about wine, contemporary women and relationships. At age twenty-six she became the youngest woman to be inducted into the world&;s most exclusive sommelier organization, the hundred-and-twenty-member Court of Master Sommeliers. She spent five years as sommelier at a world famous four star restaurant, Everest of Chicago. While there she closely observed the sometimes humorous, sometimes absurd, social interactions between men and woman at all stages of their relationships. Her mental journal of these &;social observations&; came in handy as she wrote her first book, Alpana Pours.

Alpana Pours reaches readers in playful language they will understand, and in a highly entertaining manner they will enjoy. Women want to know how to select wine when entertaining important clients, pair wine with food they and their partner are preparing together, choose the right wines for hostess gifts, bridal showers, a first meeting with a boyfriend&;s parents and what wine to, or not to, order on a first date. Alpana Pours supplies tips on these and a myriad of other topics including &;dating&; and &;dealing with guys.&; The book&;s gender riff on wine and lifestyle is unique and will definitely grab reader&;s attention.

À propos de l?auteur

Alpana Singh was host of the #1 Public Television program in Chicago, Check, Please!, which has won two Emmy awards. She has been named Best Sommelier in America by Wine and Spirits Magazine, Jane magazine's "30 Under 30," Crain's "40 Under 40," Food and Wine Magazine's "35 Under 35," "Best Sommelier" Chicago Magazine 2004, and a 2002 James Beard Foundation Nomination for Wine Service. She has also been featured in numerous publications including, Real Simple, Food and Wine, Bon Appétit, Glamour, Newsweek, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and The New York Times. Alpana was also featured in the September 2006 issue of Cosmopolitan and the October 2006 issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray.