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New! Laws and Principles of Flavour |
"Over eons of time the human species has evolved from the dust of the stars. We are ruled by the laws of nature. Isaac Newton's laws of motion are well understood. Here are some laws of flavour." "The above have been collected over half a lifetime. Some is original. My aim will have been realised if it contributes to the pleasures of the table." "The shared table has become my religion, one that is possibly 10,000 years old. Break bread and share drink with a stranger and you will never want to harm them, nor they you." |
Available as a downloadable pdf e-book. Go to the downloads page to get your copy. |
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Vine and Scalpel | "The development of the wine industry in Australia has been closely associated with several prominent medical men. Dr Penfold and Dr Lindeman are but two of the eminent doctors who persisted and persevered, through good years and bad, through financial insecurity, in an industry which had to struggle to survive. They built wine-producing firms which now ensure that Australians everywhere can buy and enjoy good Australian wine at remarkably low prices. Dr Lake, in this unique book, has assembled the stories of the 'wine lives' of wine-producing doctors." | Available. | AU $30.00 |
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Food on the Plate, Wine in the Glass | "Life finally comes down to the six Fs. The prior drives have evolved from the calls of four of them: flight, fight, food and mate. The other two: flavour and fragrance, silhouette the enjoyment of food and the allure of love. Shortly, the table becomes one of the hallmarks of civilisation. Families are nourished, friendships flourish, gentle commerce is fostered, and amours all but consummated." | Available. | AU $22.00 |
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The Flavour of Wine | "Under this romatic title I wish to consider all the influences on one's appreciation of wine, which are dificult to measure, and more difficult to communicate. Each person varies in his capacity to taste. Taste substances can vary on the palate, even with identical chemical reactions and molecular configuration. Flavour memory may reach incredible levels of discrimination, and can certainly be trained. Think of the tracking dog. Preferences may be congenital or acquired and I will refer to this below. Many influences on flavour are psychological, probably some are nonsense, but their existence cannot be ignored in any discussion on human appreciation of flavour, and especially that of wine." | Out of print. Check Amazon | n/a. |
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Start to Taste 1 - Wine Start to Taste 2 - Food Start to Taste 3 - People |
Start to Taste, Food. This lean little book may be the most important you will ever read on food and flavour, be you producer, foodie, scribe, or eater. It aims to switch you, and your family and friends, on to the remarkable human capacity for pleasure and fulfillment. Start to Taste, Wine. An original and stimulating work that gives a dynamic approach to the pleasures of flavour, and etches the taste of wine with laser clarity. Start to Taste, People. Where custom and convention deny all that is natural, paradoxically we are permitted to compliment someone on their smell, but only if it is artificial... |
Available | (1) AU $15.00 (2) AU $15.00 (3) AU $15.00 |
| Start to Taste 1 - Wine | Japanese edition available | AU $15.00 | ||
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Beef | "An introduction to the simple uses of beef, its unique flavours, and relevant facts, fancies, and fashions. A tender juicy toothsome steak can be one of the great pleasures, so much satisfaction with so little effort. Explore here for the perfect steak or roast. A few recipes illustrate many principles, as Tim White wrote of a previous book, 'to get the synapses sparking and the juices flowing.' Hopefully, what Jancis Robinson called the author's 'congenital enthusiasm' will enliven the tables of you and yours." | Available | AU $15.00 |
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Memoirs of a Folly, for a Seventieth Birthday | "Aesop's fables are now little known and less heeded. Who recalls the childhood memory of the one about the old farmer, desiring to pass on the secret of his success, who spoke to his family thus? 'My children, my days on earth are shortening. All I have to pass on can be found in the vineyard.' After he died, in the hope of some hidden treasure, the children busied themselves furiously in the vineyard, with plough, forks and spades and with every other manner of implement. They tilled and turned the ground, cultivating it over and over again. They never did find treasure of the kind they had expected, but the vines went on to deliver a greater vintage than ever before." | Available | AU $15.00 |
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Cabernet | "WELCOME to the wonderful world of the red wines of Cabernet Sauvignon. And thank Dr Lake for his perceptive introduction to one of the most complex and amazing wines man has yet introduced. "Witty, knowledgeable, and urbane, Max Lake's text ranges from the scientific to the romantic and is firmly based on his own experiences as winegrower, winemaker, and judge and lover of wines." |
Available | AU $30.00 |
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Hunter Winemakers | "Is Hunter Winemakers a wine book, a cookbook, an economic and historical source book, or the overenthusiastic ravings of one who must share his pleasures, the better to enjoy them? "Basically it emerges as a tribute to the men who have made, and continue to make the great red and white wines of Australia's Hunter River Valley. It is also a readable account of how the Valley traditions began, besides being an informed wine book." |
Available | Price on application. |
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Scents and Sensuality | "Enhance your enjoyment of life. Improve your senses of smell and taste. "Did you know the essential male scent is mimicked by parsley and truffles? That the bouquet of champagne is stimulating to both sexes? That extreme pleasure may derive from hormones that are themselves boosted by a component of chocolate? "This revolutionary and stimulating book starts from the premise that we humans, dominated by the other senses, purposefully and woefully neglect our senses of smell and taste, and thereby miss out on a huge range of pleasurable experiences–whether from the glass, shared table, or in bed." |
Available in English, Portuguese and German. | AU $30.00 |
| Scents and Sensuality | French and Japanese editions in preparation. | AU $30.00 | ||
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Fragrances of Love | "How do you smell to others? Where do the fragrances of love hover? Is odour one answer to puzzling hostility, between the sexes, within families, and social groups. Recall how to smell with the ability of a baby or a child. Learn how to select and apply fragrance, and how to recognise the sexual invitations in food and wine. Enjoy!" | Available | AU $20.00 |
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Flavour, Essentials for Tasters and Cooks | "This is about really starting to taste. Do not be misled by its size, there is a lot of information herein. Some may be new even to professionals." | Available | AU $20.00 |
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Taste, the Shared Table Cooking Wine | "Science and passion are turbulent bedmates. It is not easy to explore a field where one is both experienced and passionate, and at the same time preserve a semblance of scientific detachment. Anyhow, science often mistakes one thing for another; the pleasure of flavour never masquerades. This work is an opportunity to see if science can inform flavour while giving it seasoning." | Available | AU $30.00 |
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Cooking for Marco Polo | A beautifully written "cookbook" written within the frame of reference of the times and tastes of the great Marco Polo. Summed up nicely in this except from the introduction: "I have truly tried to avoid writing another cook book. There are already too many great ones, mostly skimmed and then unused. The visual media these days are clogged with culinary minutiae. Most skeletal recipes herein have been left vaguely framed purposely, to encourage the reader to clad them, thereby enhancing their enjoyment and creativity." | Available as a downloadable pdf e-book. Go to the downloads page to get your copy. |
Price on application (for printed version). |
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7 Tongues, Musings, Memoirs, Mentors & Minders of a Man of a Taste | "The burden of these scribblings derives from an unusual mélange; surgical experience, winemaking, and exploring how evolution has shaped our senses, particularly the perception of flavour. One of fate's happier children, luck has indeed been my fortune. The medical course seventy years ago included botany, zoology and bacteriology. Advanced biochemistry demonstrated how all life is powered by the same energy cycle. Combined with a study of normal and disordered human structure and function, those disciplines can produce a competent physician. Add some practical gardening, a bit of mechanical common sense from surgery, and behold, the winemaker! No wonder there may be a hint of envy from other professions." | Available as a downloadable pdf e-book. Go to the downloads page to get your copy. |
Price on application (for printed version). |
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David Sutherland Smith Letters, with annotations by Max Lake | Taken from the preface: "These letters were written to Max Lake, by the hand of David Sutherland Smith [Heir to the family vineyard All Saints founded in Victoria in 1864 during a period of great expansion of vine planting in the State]. This was despite the presence of four gorgeous women always in his office in North Melbourne during my visits there. They just seemed to waft in and out. I found myself wondering what they did, besides ornament the place along with the many photos of equally beautiful racehorses which adorned the walls... "The purpose of this collection is to ensure the persona and times of this delightful old man are not lost by the passage of time, overshadowed by more dramatic events. He treated me like a son, albeit through a filter of respect, even deference, for what he saw as my achievements." |
Available | Price on application. |