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Kondo, Hiroshi : SAKE: A DRINKER'S GUIDE

Kodansha International, 1992

ISBN 9784770016546

A crisp clean softcover in original wraps, no markings throughout: This book is all you need to get started on the sake experience. Here is a n expert's guide to types, tasting, and brewing methods, with a detailed li st of Japan's best sakes and a no-nonsense approach to the misleading maze of ranks and gradings and labels. Here is a home entertainer's guide to serving--warm, but not hot, please, a nd how about on the rocks? or sake cocktails? and to the varied cuisine tha t has developed around sake drinking, with recipes for easy-to-make Japanes e foods you and your friends can enjoy with sake throughout the year. For travelers to Japan there are helpful sections on Japanese drinking plac es and on ordering, toasting, and banqueting. For North American readers, t here is information on brewers and the major imported brands available in t he United States. Finally, for lovers of tradition--and what is drink without tradition?--pag e after page of authentic sake lore, from the age of the gods to the presen t day, offer a beautifully illustrated celebration of the sophisticated art of imbibing in Japan. Sake, you will discover, has always been Japan's ess ential oil of human relations, the great relaxer after a busy day. If you'r e a person who can talk fluently about sake, you're talking a language your Japanese friends and business colleagues will really understand. So kampai! Here's to a luscious brew! The next time you go to a liquor stor e or restaurant, take this book. Select with confidence and know what you'r e drinking. And the next time you have friends over, treat them to sake. About the Author Hiroshi Kondo was born in, As New

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