The Instant Wine Connoisseur 2nd Edition With Wine Food Pairings Recipes By Famous Chefs

This book provides an intimate glimpse into today's world of wine. It will help you to better understand the different tastes of wines and their sources, so you can successfully choose wines from a restaurant menu or a wine store self--without relying on ratings by others.Readers who are world travelers, by armchair or otherwise, can read about many places of interest to a wine lover. Discover restaurant and famous chefs all over the world, try their recipes, and learn about the great areas of the world for wine production and how to best visit them. In short--read this book to expand your knowledge and appreciation of the great culture of wine.

This book provides an intimate glimpse into today's world of wine. It will help you to better understand the different tastes of wines and their sources, so you can successfully choose wines from a restaurant menu or a wine store shelf-without relying on ratings by others. Readers who are world travelers, by armchair or otherwise, can read about many places of interest to a wine lover. Discover restaurants and famous chefs all over the world, try their recipes, and learn about the great areas of the world for wine production and how to best visit them. In short-read this book to expand your knowledge and appreciation of the great culture of wine. About the Authors Mervyn L.Hecht (b. 1938) graduated from Harvard Law School in 1963. Since then he has written five books and hundreds of articles about diverse subjects, including food, restaurants, legal matters, investments, and wine. In 1997 he wrote the first edition of "The Instant Wine Connoisseur," followed by the second edition in 2003. For the past 40 years he has been writing weekly restaurant and wine reviews for various newspapers in the Los Angeles area. Mr. Hecht is a certified wine judge for the state of California and has participated in many wine tastings at the California and Los Angeles County fairs, and for several years he taught an extension course at UCLA on wine tasting and wine service. John Blanchette (1946-2014) moved to Los Angeles and started a Public relations firm in 1984. During his career he represented Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ned Beatty, Cary Grant, Valerie Harper, Bob Hope, Michael Jackson and Debbie Reynolds, among others. During the past 15 years he wrote travel articles for the Copley newspaper chain and other news syndicates. The authors wish to acknowledge and thank Gerry Furth-Sides for her assistance in finding and editing the recipes in the book.

The national bestseller that turns you into “an expert at pairing wine with just about anything, from pizza and Lucky Charms to pad thai and Popeye’s” (Maxim). Featured on Today and CBS This Morning Named one of the best books of the year by Food & Wine, Saveur, and Town & Country Sancerre and Cheetos go together like milk and cookies. The science behind this unholy alliance is as elemental as acid, fat, salt, and minerals. Wine pro Vanessa Price explains how to create your own pairings while proving you don’t necessarily need fancy foods to unlock the joys of wine. Building upon the outsize success of her weekly column in Grub Street, Price offers delightfully bold wine and food pairings alongside hilarious tales from her own unlikely journey as a Kentucky girl making it in the Big Apple and in the wine business. Using language everyone can understand, she reveals why each dynamic duo is a match made in heaven, serving up memorable takeaways that will help you navigate any wine list or local bottle shop. Charmingly illustrated and bubbling with personality, Big Macs & Burgundy will open your mind to the entirely fun and entirely accessible wine pairings out there waiting to be discovered—and make you do a few spit-takes along the way. “The book explores all different kinds of combinations, including breakfast pairings like avocado toast and Rueda Verdejo, pairings for entertaining like shrimp cocktail & Valdeorras Godello, and even some pairings with popular Trader Joe’s items.” —Food & Wine “A smart, useful guide to drinking the world’s great wine, whether you’re pairing it with foie gras or Fritos.” —Town & Country

This guide to perfect pairings is the essential, must-have cookbook for wine lovers. With chapters arranged by the most popular wine types, this collection of outstanding recipes solves the What Do I Serve with This Wine? conundrum. You'll find 15+ perfect dishes for each varietal—from Champagne and Chardonnay to Rosé and Cabernet Sauvignon. Enjoy Ina Garten's Crusty Baked Shells and Cauliflower with your Pinot Noir or Francis Ford Coppola's Pizza Vesuvio with the Works with a nice bottle of Cabernet. This book guides you through choosing the ideal food pairing for any occasion as well as providing the key characteristics of varietals and the principles behind pairing them. With Food & Wine: Perfect Pairings, you'll be as confident in your dish and drink couplings as the world's greatest sommelier.

A practical, accessible guide to basic principles of cooking for wine provides pointers on matching food with different styles of wine made from twelve popular varieties and 58 recipes tailored to distinctive styles of each kind of wine.

This beautiful and easy-to-use cookbook features more than 75 innovative food and wine pairings compiled by the expert editorial team at Wine Enthusiast Magazine. Filled with delectable full-color photographs, the Wine Enthusiast Magazine Wine and Food Pairings Cookbook is sure to be appreciated by everyone from serious wine lovers to occasional wine drinkers. With chapters that are organized by wine styles—from soft, easy reds to light, aromatic whites—this cookbook guides wine and food lovers to easily choose a wine and plan a delectable meal around it. The mouthwatering recipes come from top chefs and culinary stylemakers around the globe, from simple dishes that are ideal for a last-minute weekday meal to elegant, exotic feasts that will serve as centerpiece to a stylish special occasion. Each recipe is creatively paired with the best, and most interesting, wines from around the world, and Wine 101 sidebars break down the need-to-know facts about the styles of wines showcased. This indispensable guide also includes a comprehensive vintage chart listing the great grape varieties of the wine world and the key characteristics of each.

A delicious, comprehensive playbook that pairs 75 wine styles—including where and who to buy them from—with 75 recipes that complement them perfectly “If you want to know what good taste in the modern food and wine scene looks like, this is your manual.”—Jordan Mackay, co-author of The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste Wine Food is a wine course in a cookbook for everyone who wants to learn about wine simply by drinking it. Here, natural wine bar and winery owner Dana Frank and wine-loving recipe writer Andrea Slonecker distill the basics—how to buy, how to store, how to taste—and deliver more than seventy-five instant-hit recipes inspired by delectable, affordable wines that go with them beautifully. Each recipe opens with a succinct summary of the wine style that inspired it, followed by a brief explanation of how it complements the flavors and textures in the recipe. There are also recommendations for three to eight producers of each wine style. Frank and Slonecker also include a wine flavors cheat sheet, a label lexicon lesson, a short course on wine tasting like a pro, and illustrated features on matching wine with types of favorite foods (typical take-out, beloved pasta dishes, and popular sweets). Whether you like thinking about which bottle to pour at brunch, with picnic fare, for midweek dinners, at weekend feasts, or for all of those times, Wine Food makes learning about wine flavorful, fun, and easy.