Awards

• Winner of IACP Cookbook Awards: Culinary History 2001
• Winner of IACP Cookbook Awards: Culinary History 2001.
• Winner of International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award 2001

Overview

How did a country with no winemaking traditions of its own suddenly become a world leader? Paul Lukacs offers a full history, from seventeenth-century experiments to the fall of wine during the dark days of Prohibition through its remarkably rapid upswing in recent decades. The tale is replete with quirky heroes and visionaries who changed the course of wine history: from Nicholas Longsworth, a diminutive, nineteenth-century real estate tycoon and the founding father of American wine, to the Mondavis and Gallos, the powerful first families of American wine in the modern era.

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"""Wisely avoids technical data, wine industry jargon, and the tasting notes that pass for so much wine writing. This is social history; it deals with people and, in Mr. Lukacs's hands, a fascinating lot they are."""

Wisely avoids technical data, wine industry jargon, and the tasting notes that pass for so much wine writing. This is social history; it deals with people and, in Mr. Lukacs's hands, a fascinating lot they are.

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Paul Lukacs is the author of American Vintage and The Great Wines of America. A James Beard, Cliquot, and IACP award winner, he has been writing about wine and its cultural contexts for nearly twenty years. He is a professor of English at Loyola University of Maryland, where he directs the University's Center for the Humanities. He lives in Baltimore.

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