Adventures in Wine Cookery A New Collection of Recipes Published by Wine Advisory Board San Francisco

B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized spiral bound hardback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The recipes have been collected by the WIne Advisory Board of California. "The California wine industry literally put down its roots in 1769, when Padre Junipero Serra began his chain of missions in San Diego by planting grape seeds and vines. Eventually it stretched to Sonoma, more than 600 miles to the north. The California wine industry owes its success to many fathers. One was a key vigneron, Jean-Louis Vignes, who established vineyards near what is now Los Angeles in 1834 and began the commercial wine industry. By 1919, California had become America’s leading winegrowing state, with over 1,000 wineries in operation, but the following year, the 18th Amendment was enacted, bringing Prohibition. Uncertainty reigned in the vineyards of California, until Repeal on Dec. 5, 1933 with the enactment of the 21st Amendment. The California wine industry began the task of rebuilding." (from Wikipedia).…