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Alpana Pours is a unique lifestyle
book with wine as the centerpiece. Since American women purchase
and consume more wine than American men, 77% and 60% respectively,
a voice is needed to help women understand that their busy
professional and social lifestyles can be well paired with
wine. Master Sommelier and successful television host Alpana
Singh, 29, happens to be just the person who can help them
do it.
Alpana Singh is uniquely qualified to talk
about wine, contemporary women and relationships. At age 26
she became the youngest woman to be inducted into the world’s
most exclusive sommelier organization, the 120 member Court
of Master Sommeliers. She spent five years as sommelier at
a world famous four star restaurant, Everest of Chicago. While
there she closely observed the sometimes humorous, sometimes
absurd, social interactions between men and woman at all stages
of their relationships. Her mental journal of these “social
observations” came in handy as she wrote her first book,
Alpana Pours.
Alpana Pours reaches readers in
playful language they will understand, and in a highly entertaining
manner they will enjoy. Women want to know how to select wine
when entertaining important clients, pair wine with food they
and their partner are preparing together, choose the right
wines for hostess gifts, bridal showers, a first meeting with
a boyfriend’s parents and what wine to, or not to, order
on a first date. Alpana Pours supplies tips on these and a
myriad of other topics including “dating” and
“dealing with guys”. The book’s gender-riff
on wine and lifestyle is unique and will definitely grab reader’s
attention.
Alpana Singh is host of the #1 Public
Television program in Chicago, Check, Please!, which
has won two Emmy awards. She has been named Best Sommelier
in America by Wine and Spirits Magazine, Jane
magazine’s “30 Under 30,” Crain’s
“40 Under 40,” Food and Wine Magazine’s
“35 Under 35,” “Best Sommelier”
Chicago Magazine 2004, and a 2002 James Beard Foundation
Nomination for Wine Service. She has also been featured in
numerous publications including, Real Simple, Food and
Wine, Bon Appétit, Glamour, Newsweek, USA Today,
the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and
The New York Times. Alpana will also be featured in
the September 2006 issue of Cosmopolitan and the October
2006 issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray.
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