--- product_id: 40469759 title: "The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing" price: "¥17807" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/40469759-the-art-of-mead-tasting-and-food-pairing store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing **Price:** ¥17807 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing - **How much does it cost?** ¥17807 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/40469759-the-art-of-mead-tasting-and-food-pairing) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The world's first mead tasting and appreciation book, all the history of mead drink, not a mead making book, but finally a mead drinking book! With pairing suggestions for all types of mead and food, including Paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free and vegetarian. 44 food recipes and 10 dessert recipes with appropriate mead pairings, as well as 14 mead cocktail recipes. The 60 sidebars feature individual meads, meaderies and meadmakers; mead and cheese pairing; how to pair mead and snacks; mead vinegars; honeywine and honey spirits. Fully indexed. 345 gorgeous color photographs. The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing demystifies all the varieties of mead from honey-only traditional meads to melomels (fruit meads) and from session meads to metheglins (spiced meads), how to pour and drink them, and the flavor dynamics that help you understand how to pair each type with food. Author Chrissie Manion Zaerpoor provides mead legends, lore and history from many parts of the world in the context of that region's food traditions, with detailed suggestions for pairing ethnic foods and ethnic styles of mead, along with delicious international recipes. Includes Viking lore and modern Scandinavian recipes; Irish and Celtic lore with modern Irish recipes; Roman and Greek lore with modern Mediterraneam recipes; as well as from Africa, India, and Asia. Where to Buy Mead includes bottle shops with selections worthy of road trips - across states and in your largest vehicle - and bars specializing in meads and mead cocktails. You'll meet many of the movers and shakers in the mead industry, see their meaderies, and feel more confident about going to meaderies to taste and buy mead for your home mead cellar and about serving mead at home with spectacular food pairings. Hard cover, full color, ribbon bookmark, 432 pages, 345 photos. Foreword by Ken Schramm. Review: Makes you even happier about drinking - Since the beginning of time, man has asked, "How can I turn THAT into booze?" With grain or grapes, you know the answers, but most Americans know little about mead, beer and wine's honey-based cousin. Why I enjoyed this gorgeous book: - Chrissie Manion Zaerpoor is passionate about every aspect of mead. This isn't like a cookbook by, say, the Notorious B.I.G., where the supposed author probably had little to do with writing it. It's aimed at an intelligent audience, so if you DID enjoy the Notorious B.I.G. Cookbook, this might not be for you. - The photographs are excellent and have a consistent style. In principle, photographing food is easy: it doesn't move, and you can arrange the lighting however you want. In practice, there are a lot of bad pictures of food out there. You won't find them here. - The recipes aren't more complex than is absolutely necessary. I read the Wall Street Journal, which features simplified recipes by famous chefs. The SIMPLE versions seem to average 15 ingredients, invariably things I've never heard of, or wouldn't know where to buy (e.g., spicy Argentine beef tongue sausage). This book emphasizes excellence in ingredients and preparation, not unneeded complexity. - The book is extremely well-constructed physically. Think of a 400+ page full-color textbook with excellent binding, precisely cut pages, picture bleed to the edge of pages, etc. - It makes you recognize that humans are omnivores, and that quality meats and moderate alcohol can be part of a healthy lifestyle. Americans seem to rush from one eating fad to another, thinking that the latest one will make up for their sedentary lifestyles and poor lifestyle choices. Most recipes here -- including the meads -- are similar to things people have eaten for thousands of years. Having McDonalds and a 6-pack every night is bad for you, but that doesn't mean that you can't enjoy some mead with your Japanese Braised Pork Belly. Review: This book is awesome - One of my FAVORITE cookbooks EVER ## Features - First place winner Gourmand International Cookbook Awards, category W3-7 ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #574,079 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #23,994 in Cookbooks, Food & Wine (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 47 Reviews | ## Images ![The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WG-ZYN-ML.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Makes you even happier about drinking *by R***. on April 28, 2019* Since the beginning of time, man has asked, "How can I turn THAT into booze?" With grain or grapes, you know the answers, but most Americans know little about mead, beer and wine's honey-based cousin. Why I enjoyed this gorgeous book: - Chrissie Manion Zaerpoor is passionate about every aspect of mead. This isn't like a cookbook by, say, the Notorious B.I.G., where the supposed author probably had little to do with writing it. It's aimed at an intelligent audience, so if you DID enjoy the Notorious B.I.G. Cookbook, this might not be for you. - The photographs are excellent and have a consistent style. In principle, photographing food is easy: it doesn't move, and you can arrange the lighting however you want. In practice, there are a lot of bad pictures of food out there. You won't find them here. - The recipes aren't more complex than is absolutely necessary. I read the Wall Street Journal, which features simplified recipes by famous chefs. The SIMPLE versions seem to average 15 ingredients, invariably things I've never heard of, or wouldn't know where to buy (e.g., spicy Argentine beef tongue sausage). This book emphasizes excellence in ingredients and preparation, not unneeded complexity. - The book is extremely well-constructed physically. Think of a 400+ page full-color textbook with excellent binding, precisely cut pages, picture bleed to the edge of pages, etc. - It makes you recognize that humans are omnivores, and that quality meats and moderate alcohol can be part of a healthy lifestyle. Americans seem to rush from one eating fad to another, thinking that the latest one will make up for their sedentary lifestyles and poor lifestyle choices. Most recipes here -- including the meads -- are similar to things people have eaten for thousands of years. Having McDonalds and a 6-pack every night is bad for you, but that doesn't mean that you can't enjoy some mead with your Japanese Braised Pork Belly. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is awesome *by K***T on April 29, 2024* One of my FAVORITE cookbooks EVER ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best practical mead book to date *by S***W on October 26, 2018* I'm an owner of Space Time Mead & Cider Works. I have been making mead for 10 year and this book is foundational material for anyone wanting pragmatic understanding of what mead is, its history, and how to treat mead. Broad coverage of mead history/origins in cultures, extending into modern meads. This book was used as key source material for mead presentations to community groups, and required reading as part of my training program for all new hires. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.jp/products/40469759-the-art-of-mead-tasting-and-food-pairing](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/40469759-the-art-of-mead-tasting-and-food-pairing) --- *Product available on Desertcart Japan* *Store origin: JP* *Last updated: 2026-10-03*