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Everyday Dining with Wine | ||
| Author: | Andrea Immer | ||
| ISBN: | 0767916816 | ||
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Andrea Immer has one of the world's best, and least pretentious, wine palates. In her debut cookbook she proves that her taste in food is just as finely honed and down-to-earth. Presenting 125 recipes that pair magnificently with wine, she shows how to bring these great flavor combinations to the dinner table—with minimum fuss and at minimal cost. Her food and wine matches are guaranteed to make even weeknight meals special occasions. Wine enthusiasts and epicures alike could not be in better hands: World-renowned Master Sommelier Andrea Immer is also a graduate of the French Culinary Insitute, where she refined her already formidable cooking skills and understanding of food flavors, and where today she is dean of wine studies. In her new book, she solves that most vexing dinner dilemma—which wines to serve with what foods. Drawing on her sophisticated understanding of tastes, she offers up internationally inspired delicacies like Cumin-crusted Lamb; Fettucine with Proscuitto, Sage, and Mushrooms; or Tarte Tatin with Bourbon and Vanilla. She also offers down-home dishes like Fast-Track Baby Back Ribs, Turkey Quesadillas with Sesame Sweet Potato–Mole Sauce, or Cheese Grits with Shrimp and Chorizo. Everyday Dining with Wine is filled with recipes emphasizing a robust harmony of flavors for every course from soup to dessert. Andrea believes that wine should be a part of everyday dining—for both pleasure and health. With this book in hand, you can choose a recipe and then find the wine that complements it best, or start with a special bottle and discover its perfect food partner. Here, too, are Andrea’s answers to such common and perplexing questions as “Where should I store my wine?”; “Once I open a bottle, how long will it be good?”; “Does the shape and quality of glassware matter?” Wine and food belong together, whether for a weeknight meal or a dinner party. With Everyday Dining with Wine there is no guesswork involved in making any meal a cause for celebration. Everyday Dining with Wine FROM THE PUBLISHER Andrea Immer has one of the world's best, and least pretentious, wine palates. In her debut cookbook she proves that her taste in food is just as finely honed and down-to-earth. Presenting 125 recipes that pair magnificently with wine, she shows how to bring these great flavor combinations to the dinner table--with minimum fuss and at minimal cost. Her food and wine matches are guaranteed to make even weeknight meals special occasions. Wine enthusiasts and epicures alike could not be in better hands: World-renowned Master Sommelier Andrea Immer is also a graduate of the French Culinary Insitute, where she refined her already formidable cooking skills and understanding of food flavors, and where today she is dean of wine studies. In her new book, she solves that most vexing dinner dilemma--which wines to serve with what foods. Drawing on her sophisticated understanding of tastes, she offers up internationally inspired delicacies like Cumin-crusted Lamb; Fettucine with Proscuitto, Sage, and Mushrooms; or Tarte Tatin with Bourbon and Vanilla. She also offers down-home dishes like Fast-Track Baby Back Ribs, Turkey Quesadillas with Sesame Sweet Potato-Mole Sauce, or Cheese Grits with Shrimp and Chorizo. Everyday Dining with Wine is filled with recipes emphasizing a robust harmony of flavors for every course from soup to dessert. Andrea believes that wine should be a part of everyday dining--for both pleasure and health. With this book in hand, you can choose a recipe and then find the wine that complements it best, or start with a special bottle and discover its perfect food partner. Here, too, are Andrea's answers to such common and perplexing questions as"Where should I store my wine?"; "Once I open a bottle, how long will it be good?"; "Does the shape and quality of glassware matter?" Wine and food belong together, whether for a weeknight meal or a dinner party. With Everyday Dining with Wine there is no guesswork involved in making any meal a cause for celebration. SYNOPSIS Andrea Immer has one of the world's best, and least pretentious, wine palates. In her debut cookbook she proves that her taste in food is just as finely honed and down-to-earth. Presenting 125 recipes that pair magnificently with wine, she shows how to bring these great flavor combinations to the dinner table—with minimum fuss and at minimal cost. Her food and wine matches are guaranteed to make even weeknight meals special occasions. FROM THE CRITICS Library Journal A master sommelier and oenophile, Immer has organized this cookbook not by the courses one serves but by wine varietal or type. This arrangement is ideal for readers who are unfamiliar with their wines and want to use them to the best advantage. For cooks who aren't planning meals around specific wines, a course-by-course recipe list precedes the chapters. Unlike Immer's Great Tastes Made Simple: Extraordinary Food and Wine Pairing for Every Palate, the wine descriptions here are brief and general, the principle focus being the recipes, which have an international scope, are easy to follow and do not require hard-to-find ingredients. Immer has simplified recipes for biscotti and souffle while generating interest with unique flavor combinations. Foods are paired with wine based on flavor components, e.g., acidity, fruit flavor, and oakiness; food is colorblind, Immer asserts, and flavor rather than color is the key to selecting the best wine to enhance food. Seasoned wine lovers, however, may be put off by the lack of vintage dates in the recommendations, and some of the obscure wine recommendations, such as Santenay, may frustrate wine shoppers. Still, the luscious recipes make up for these shortcomings. Recommended for most culinary collections.-Ann Weber, Bellarmine Coll. Preparatory Lib., San Jose, CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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