Tuscan Blood
Tuscan Blood traces a young man's return to Italy to attend the funeral services of his beloved grandfater, the patriarch of the family wine estate. Once there, the lead character traverses the pastoral landscapes of Tuscany, indulges in the region's most delicious wine and food, and rediscovers the life he is meant to live.
Hunting Truffles
Northern Itally is the cradle for a precious culinary gem, the white truffle of Piedmont, worth more than gold and sought after by chefs and foodies alike. In Hunting Truffles, the hunters are in a panic as they discover that their usual harvest has been stolen literally from under their feet. Inexplicably, the bodies of murdered hunters turn up, but no truffles. A young man from Tuscany, in tow with his aunt and her restaurant crew, pursue the theft and the thieves through the hills of Piedmont and the wine and food of Italy.
Wine Heritage
The Story of Italian American Vintners
Wine Heritage: the Story of Italian American Vintners chronicles the influence that Italian immigrants and Italian-Americans have had on the American wine industry, from the 1600s to the present. From Filippo Mazzei serving as Thomas Jefferson's winemaker to the modern success of such families as Mondavi, Sebastiano, Gallo, and Pedroncelli, Wine Heritage is packed with profiles and generational histories of the people who planted the vinyards, struggled to survive Prohibitionk, the gave the reborn wine industry new life in the decades when the virtues of wine were being discovered by 20th century Americans.
The Secret of Altamura
Following the success of Tuscan Blood and Hunting Truffles, Dick Rosano has published The Secret of Altamura: Nazi Crimes, Italian Treasure. It is 1943 and the Nazis control large swaths of Italy. Colonel Anselm Bernhardt devotes his attention to stealing Italian art – and violating Italian women – but there is one great treasure that he covets most. In modern times, his grandson is sworn to make amends for Bernhardt’s crimes, but he is bitten by the same temptation and averts his focus on reparation to search for the mysterious and historically vital treasure in southern Italy, a secret that if revealed could alter the course of history. Based on historical events, The Secret of Altamura will take you back to the cloud of terror that hung over wartime Italy and invite you to explore the secrets and treasures that were hidden from the Nazi invaders.
Wine Froth
“No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.” Horace, Roman poet
“I like [champagne] because it always tastes as though my foot is asleep.” Art Buchwald
In Wine Froth, Washington Post wine columnist Dick Rosano celebrates 8,000 years of wine-stained history with this droll, profound, bizarre, hilarious, charming, and totally entertaining collection of wine quotes, anecdotes, and trivia.
Here’s another sample: Richard Nixon knew his wines, and which were being served at White House dinner functions. He instructed the serving staff to hide the labels of certain bottles, and that he was to be poured the best of them, and particular guests were to get the other stuff.
Also included in this richly illustrated little book are scores of tips to help make wine a little easier to enjoy, such as: adding kosher salt to your bucket of ice will chill wine faster. Merlot is French for little blackbird.