What to Drink with What You Eat
- The Complete Beer Course: Boot Camp for Beer Geeks - $18.98
- The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most - $26.97
- Kitchen Creativity: Unlocking Culinary Genius - $31.60
- Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine - $18.81
- Wine: A Tasting Course - $20.00
What to Drink with What You Eat is exactly what it claims to be: The Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea - Even Water. My fiancee owns the book, and it's like her bible. No joke. She'll read about holy merlot before bed, get a few blaufrankisch hallelujahs in when she wakes up, and if we're having a dinner party - it's intense sauvignon blanc spiritual study and exploration of pinot noir for days beforehand.
Having flipped through What to Drink with What You Eat myself, I can't blame She-Ra: Princess of Power for her attachment to it. I'm not as into wine as she is, but this thing covers everything. Beer, whiskey, sake, coffee and other non-alcoholic drinks; Kool-Aid is pretty much the limit. And its organization, with reference-guide-style sections listing foods in alphabetical order to find a drink to pair, and then wine, booze, etc. in alphabetical order to find a food to pair, makes accessing information real easy.
Book researchers and authors Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page compiled their pairing suggestions, along with a ton of anecdotes, recipes, sample menus, and other food and wine industry tidbits, after interviews with sommeliers, wine stewards, and chefs nationwide. The illustrious names and titles aren't all Level 10 wine snobs either. What to Drink with What You Eat has food entries for KFC, potato chips, and enchiladas along with all their fancy cheeses and racks of lamb, and sometimes surprises by recommending an IPA with dinner rather than a glass of Chardonnay.
If you still need a Mother's Day gift for Mom, and she's into the food and the wine, What to Drink with What You Eat will not end up collecting dust on her coffee table.
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