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Автор: Madeleine de Jean
Год: 2014
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 438
ISBN: 9781940745411
Renown wine-expert and 'nose', Rebecca never imagined she'd also become a wine-detective. But when ruthless 'Doctor '47' and his dark forces continue saturating the market with chemical, copy-wines, Rebecca must travel across time and space, seeking the first vine. The Night Julius Caesar Invented Champagne is an adventure layered out over eleven thousand years to the creation of wine. The god of wine himself, Dionysos, unveils to Rebecca and involves her in how - - Wine-making started in India and China in 9000 B.C.; - Pharaoh Narmer signed peace treaties over wine six-thousand years later; - King Nestor inherited wine and therewith postponed the Trojan War; and - Julius Caesar used vineyards and wine to his advantage to forge Rome into the Empire. On this trip through time in space, on strings and quarks, Rebecca is joined by friends on their own adventures: Wolfgang Puck, John Scharffenberger, and Julia Child are among those gastronomically and vinously seeking their...
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