The Wine Wars or Chocolate Companion

The Wine Wars: The Mondavi Affair, Globalization and Terror

Author: Olivier Torres

The Wine Wars describes Californian-based wine producer Robert Mondavi's failure to set up business in a small, world-renowned wine-producing village in the south of France. The business venture was bought to an abrupt halt by an anti-globalization rebellion composed of ecologists, communists, neo-rurals and wild boar hunters. The 'Mondavi affair' illustrates the importance of culture, history, geography and economic and political systems in conditioning our spirit of enterprise and the way in which we do business.

Table of Contents:

1	Robert Mondavi : the pioneer of the Napa Valley	13
2	Languedoc : the biggest vineyard in the world	46
3	Aime Guibert : the 'Furia Francese'	65
4	Mondavi in Aniane : a promising, but difficult, start	74
5	Things hot up	90
6	Things get political	100
7	After Mondavi, Gerard Depardieu comes to town	112
8	Cultural differences at the heart of the failure	121
	Conclusion : the Corporatisme of place, the French Exception Culturelle	138

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Chocolate Companion

Author: Cynthia Shade Rogers

If you know anyone who likes chocolate or perhaps you care to try some yourself, this book has it all. Rogers begins her prose by telling us about the history of chocolate, or how this New World taste traveled around the globe. From its origins as an early colonial commodity to chocolate bars for US soldiers during Operation Desert Storm, Rogers takes you and your taste buds through an array of aromatic delights. From Old-Fashioned Steamed Chocolate Pudding to Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls (they melt in your mouth), everyone who has ever appreciated chocolate must have this book.