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What to Drink with What You Eat #FoodieReads

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A few months ago I went to visit a friend at one of my favorite local tasting rooms, I. Brand & Family. I was picking Erin's brain about what wines to pair with our Moroccan Thanksgiving feast. And she introduced me to this book: What to Drink with What You Eat by Andrew Dornenburg  and Karen Page.* Well, she introduced me to the app on her phone. But, since I don't have a smart phone, she told me about the book which I immediately went home and ordered.


This is a resource I've been dreaming about for years. I just didn't know it existed.


I've only had this book for about two months, but I grab it off the shelf with alarming regularity. You can look up by foods. See above when I looked up "Spinach", it lists possible pairings that include a red (Beaujolais), whites (no oak Chardonnay), and even a non-alcoholic option (lemonade, sparkling water with lemon).


You can also look up by grape varietals to get suggestions. Now I know that wine pairings aren't hard and fast rules...at least I don't think there are hard and fast rules. This book gives you a range of ideas from which you can read what might work well. And of the dozen or so pairings I've tried, each have been a homerun.

I ended up pairing some wilted spinach with an unoaked Chardonnay from a local winemaker. I'll tell you more about that later. But I can't rave about this book enough. If you ever pair wine with food, you need this book! I am so glad Erin told me about it!!


*This blog currently has a partnership with Amazon.com in their affiliate program, which gives me a small percentage of sales if you buy a product through a link on my blog. It doesn't cost you anything more. If you are uncomfortable with this, feel free to go directly to Amazon.com and search for the item of your choice.

Here's what everyone else read in January 2018: here.
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  1. A Day in the Life on the FarmJanuary 25, 2018 at 1:53 PM

    Ok, I'm ordering this up on my phone right now.

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  2. Adriana @ BooksOnHerMindJanuary 27, 2018 at 4:23 PM

    Happy your dreams could come true haha (:

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  3. heatherJanuary 31, 2018 at 5:43 AM

    Is that book actually larger than your head? That's a mighty reference book.

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