Greetings from the Finger Lakes: A Food and Wine Lover's Companion [Paperback]

Michael Turback (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2005

The Finger Lakes area of upstate New York is America’s largest wine region outside of California. The steep, rocky hillsides rising up from deep, glacier-sculpted lakes provide protection from weather extremes, allowing area wineries to produce up to 85 million bottles of wine each year. In GREETINGS FROM THE FINGER LAKES, local restaurateur Michael Turback profiles the best wineries, restaurants, farms, and markets surrounding the five largest lakes, and includes interviews with the proprietors, tasting notes, and even a few treasured local recipes. Featuring contact information for each location as well as photographs of the region’s picturesque landscapes, GREETINGS FROM THE FINGER LAKES is the food and wine lover’s companion to this up-and-coming culinary hot spot.

A food and wine guide to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, featuring profiles, tasting notes, contact information, and recipes from the area’s wineries, dairies, organic farms, orchards, cafes, inns, ice cream makers, brewing companies, blueberry farms, honey producers, u-pick farms, taverns, maple syrup companies, tea rooms, cider producers, and more.

Over a million tourists visit the area annually.

The Finger Lakes region is New York’s second-largest tourist destination, behind New York City.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“The next wave in rural chic.”—Travel and Leisure“The glacier-scarred landscape of the Finger Lakes region in northwestern New York is a great place to hike, ski, fish, and swim. The sloping terrain and complex soil are hospitable to more than 80 wineries, many of which have sprung up in the past decade....You may even find the region reminiscent of the budding Napa Valley of the late 1970s.” —Time Magazine

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*A food and wine guide to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, featuring profiles, tasting notes, contact information, and recipes from the area’s wineries, dairies, organic farms, orchards, cafes, inns, ice cream makers, brewing companies, blueberry farms, honey producers, u-pick farms, taverns, maple syrup companies, tea rooms, cider producers, and more.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press (May 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580086071
• ISBN-13: 978-1580086073
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #327,528 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #56 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Drinks & Beverages > Wine > Food & Wine

More About the Author

Trained as a restaurateur at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, Michael Turback (www.michaelturback.com) operated an important restaurant in Ithaca, NY, whose mission was to combine passionate cooking with local ingredients and regional wines. Known for his versatility and invention as a writer, he has taken on, with distinction, such topics as the ice cream sundae, the banana split, hot chocolate, the partnership of chocolate and coffee, creative barista drinks, artisan cocktails, Finger Lakes Wine Country, the Ithaca Farmers Market, as well as two legendary figures, John Wayne and Toots Shor.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Travel guide lite, March 24, 2006

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Lee Brink (Cortland, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greetings from the Finger Lakes: A Food and Wine Lover's Companion (Paperback)

I live in the Central New York region just east of the Finger Lakes. I work with people who live in the region and I road trip quite a bit in the area when the weather warms up, so I have a "mile-wide and an inch deep" knowledge of the area.

I consider this book a "lite" travel guide because it doesn't cover much of what's in the area, but it covers what it does in great depth. It focuses on what the cover says, and nothing more. It doesn't cover many eateries outside of the population centers, and skips a lot of the "hole in the wall" restaurants, diners, and stands that offer great food but are a bit off the beaten path.

If you want to focus on wineries and want some in depth knowledge about thoose wineries this is the book. Beyond that you will need to look elsewhere for information.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate and up to date, September 30, 2005

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Elizabeth A. LeVangia "I love weddings when t... (Ossining, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greetings from the Finger Lakes: A Food and Wine Lover's Companion (Paperback)

This book was very useful to have on vacation -- his restaurant reviews were a big help in terms of types of cuisine available and the winery reviews were very specific about what types of wines they produce and what he liked when he went tasting. It was also nice to know how formal restaurants were before you went.

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect!, December 10, 2009

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Margaret Ann Hebner "busy lady" (Swarthmore PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greetings from the Finger Lakes: A Food and Wine Lover's Companion (Paperback)

My husband and his good friend graduated from Cornell in the late 60's. He and his wife return often to tour the Finger Lakes and the wineries, restaurants, and cheese shops. They have used this book as their bible for years and years, and raved about how useful it is, so we decided to get one for ourselves. We used it on our last trip to Ithaca and found it invaluable!