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	• Tasting Club: Gathering Together to Share and Savor Your Favorite Tastes Dina Cheney DK ADULT, 2006 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Party Themes

I am always looking for a new party idea and this one was great. This book tells you everything you need to know background wise for each tasting party theme. The best part is you can assign different items for each guest to bring. It's win-win.

Expand your horizon

I purchased this book because I love to entertain. However, it's just such a tiring process. I also needed new supper club ideas. This book solves both problems!

This book covers the basic wine tasting, but also provides foodie treat tastings such as:
chocolate
cheese
honey
tea
olive oil
cured meats
balsamic vinegar
apples
beer

The author provides worksheets to help conduct the tasting, recipes and menues. Each tasting section is organized as follows:

Know your food
Find your food
Choose your accompaniments
Oranize your tasting
Learn your palate

If you want a head start for your tasting, try Crate & Barrel. In store and online they have tasting honeys, salts, chocolates and olive oil.

This book is a must-have for any foodie!

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Great Book!

What a clever and easy way to entertain. We used the ideas in this book for a large gathering and offered multiple tastings. Everyone had a great time and learned a lot about extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar, honey, dark chocolate and cheese. I highly recommend the book to anyone looking for a new and fun entertaining idea.

I felt ripped off

Okay, it's my fault that I feel ripped off - I'd purused the olive oil and balsamic vinegar sections and said to myself "This is great" - the advice on what accompaniments to serve, the vocabulary of the product, the grid to evaluate each item being tested with its emphasis on one's own palate... the material is well done. The book is beautifully laid out.

The problem: The only tasting items discussed are wine, cheese, beer and tea which all need a book of their own; chocolate, honey, extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar and apples which are the highlights of the book and cured meat which, to my mind, is too broad a topic. There are many other items which would work well in the book's format - salts, chiles, mustards, olives, potatoes, greens, breads, butters ... Some of these could easily replace the weaker portions of the text. But what is really missing is the resources to discover how to plan one's own testings of products not include in the book. Either skeleton chapters for other products or references in the resources section could fill this gap. But I can't consider $22 for 5 probable "tasting club" menus a good buy.

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Great for entertaining

We used to have a couples dinner club but it just got so complicated to organize. Someone gave me this book along with some beautiful small appetizer plates. What a great gift! Since then, we've had a few tastings, and it really has made for some variations to the usual "come over for wine" get togethers. It's quite a revelation and ultimately, helps you as a consumer to taste a variety of similar things. We've tasted olive oils, coffee (at a brunch), wines, cheese and tonight we have people coming over to taste olives and tomatoes. Really a worthwhile book if you entertain often.

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A complete guide to planning and hosting tasting parties, this book will appeal to everyone who is too busy to throw a dinner party but who loves to entertain, and foodie sophisticates searching for that best olive oil, wine, cheese, or other food and beverage. Tasting combines the growing trend for food appreciation with the popular book-group phenomenon. Introduces the 4 W's of tasting: what, where, when and why, for developing a sensitive and sophisticated palate. Offers 10 different tastings, each focusing on a different food or drink, such as cheese, extra virgin olive oil and chocolate. Each gives practical advice for savoring food in a structured way to understand your palate. A full guide for hosting easy-to-organize tasting sessions with friends, with 'cheat sheets' and taste cards. Tastings are suitable for large events, one-on-one romantic occasions or independent tasting.

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