The Roving Sommelier's Bucket List of Drinks is an extensive selection of Robert Giorgione's favourite drink stories and wines from a his 25-year career as a top flight restaurant wine buyer, award-winning sommelier and wine consultant.

Roving Sommelier's Bucket List of New Zealand Wines is an extensive selection of Robert Giorgione's favourite wines from New Zealand. This personalised guide to New Zealand's wines has been embellished with useful tasting notes and information and various links to regional vineyards and wineries. It is a must-read for any wine lover.

Robert Giorgione has been a highly-respected, award-winning sommelier since 1997, having worked in some of the most high profile restaurants in the UK. He has travelled extensively around Spain and Portugal many times and has visited many of the region's vineyards, restaurants, markets and bodegas. Robert is passionate about Iberian food and drink, which includes its own regional produce and cultural diversity. An Epicurean Odyssey: A Road Trip Around The Iberian Peninsula is a personalised journey through food and drink embellished with many mouth-watering stories, recipes and drinks pairings.

The Roving Sommelier's Bucket List of New Zealand Wines is an extensive selection of award-winning sommelier, Robert Giorgione's favourite wines from New Zealand. This is the revised edition and comprehensive guide to New Zealand's wines, updated in summer 2022 with useful information, personalised wine scores and tasting notes on New Zealand's most iconic regional vineyards and boutique wineries. Robert Giorgione is a highly respected, award-winning sommelier since 1997, having worked in some of the highest profile restaurants and retail establishments in the UK. In 2009, Robert Giorgione established his wine business consultancy and became a New Zealand Wine Brand Ambassador. In 2016, Robert opened his first independent wine merchant and retail outlet called Roving Sommelier Wines and online shop at rovingsommelier.com

An Epicurean Odyssey: A Road Trip Around New Zealand is a personalised journey through food and wine embellished with many mouth-watering anecdotes, recipes and wine pairings. This revised edition includes a host of new and updated content, including links to websites, wine reviews, blog articles, videos and much more besides. Robert Giorgione has been a highly respected sommelier since 1997, having worked in some of the most high profile restaurants in the UK. In 2009 he established his independent wine consultancy, website and roving sommelier social media resource. Connect with Robert at www.rovingsommelier.com and follow his tweets and updates on Twitter @rovingsommelier

Wine and cooking enthusiasts will know immediately that they have uncorked something truly magical with MacNeil's Wine, Food & Friends. This book combines the culinary expertise of Cooking Light with the wine connoisseurship of today's preeminent wine authority.

Fine dining and the accolades of Michelin stars once meant chandeliers, white tablecloths, and suited waiters with elegant accents. The stuffy attitude and often scant portions were the punchlines of sitcom jokes—it was unthinkable that a gourmet chef would stoop to plate a burger or a taco in his kitchen. And yet today many of us will queue up for a seat at a loud, crowded noodle bar or eagerly seek out that farm-to-table restaurant where not only the burgers and fries are organic but the ketchup is homemade—but it’s not just us: the critics will be there too, ready to award distinction. Haute has blurred with homey cuisine in the last few decades, but how did this radical change happen, and what does it say about current attitudes toward taste? Here with the answers is food writer Alison Pearlman. In Smart Casual:The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America, Pearlman investigates what she identifies as the increasing informality in the design of contemporary American restaurants. By design, Pearlman does not just mean architecture. Her argument is more expansive—she is as interested in the style and presentation of food, the business plan, and the marketing of chefs as she is in the restaurant’s floor plan or menu design. Pearlman takes us hungrily inside the kitchens and dining rooms of restaurants coast to coast—from David Chang’s Momofuku noodle bar in New York to the seasonal, French-inspired cuisine of Alice Waters and Thomas Keller in California to the deconstructed comfort food of Homaro Cantu’s Moto in Chicago—to explore the different forms and flavors this casualization is taking. Smart Casual examines the assumed correlation between taste and social status, and argues that recent upsets to these distinctions have given rise to a new idea of sophistication, one that champions the omnivorous. The boundaries between high and low have been made flexible due to our desire to eat everything, try everything, and do so in a convivial setting. Through lively on-the-scene observation and interviews with major players and chefs, Smart Casual will transport readers to restaurants around the country to learn the secrets to their success and popularity. It is certain to give foodies and restaurant-goers something delectable to chew on.