Foodsmarts: The Question and Amswer Cards That Make Learning About Food Easy and Fun

Does a menu at a French Restaurant look totally Greek to you? Do you know your chickpeas from chittlins? FoodSmarts can help. FoodSmarts is the fun way to raise your food IQ, with interesting and useful facts and food trivia on ingredients, cooking, and dining out. Play with your friends over dinner, or nibble on some tidbits by yourself. Either way, FoodSmarts will nourish your palate, and your mind. You can use this box of one hundred question and answer cards like traditional flashcards to test your knowledge. Or get competitive and use the cards as a game at your next dinner party.

WineSmarts was created by Julie Tucker and Jennifer Elias, two enthusiastic wine lovers in San Francisco. Julie and Jennifer met over a glass of wine and developed the WineSmarts idea in a burst of Cabernet-induced creativity. Before starting SmartsCo, which publishes WineSmarts, Julie was a restaurant consultant and Jennifer directed TasteWine, a company providing entertaining winetastings for corporate events.

Edited by Ray Johnson, whose informal approach to wine is central to the classes he teaches at universities, wineries and corporations. He directs TasteWine, and judges at the San Francisco Chronicle and the West Coast Wine Competitions. He is also author of The Good Life Guide to Enjoying Wine.