Wine with a hint of Brooklyn – amNY
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Wine with a hint of Brooklyn
amNY, New York Shaper, 36, left a career as an engineer in Silicon Valley to pursue the wine trade. In 1999, she started working in the tasting room of a Hudson Valley winery, then she worked for a wine distributor, and eventually she learned how to make wine as an … |
Wine Food & Friends
Wine and cooking enthusiasts will know immediately that they have uncorked something truly magical with Karen MacNeil’s Wine, Food & Friends. This book combines the culinary expertise of Cooking Light with the wine connoisseurship of Karen MacNeil, today’s preeminent wine authority. Award-winning author, lecturer, and television personality, Karen is a champion when it comes to the enjoyment of food and wine, which she summarizes in “The Only Ten Principles of Matching Wine and Food You’ll Ever Need.” Pair Karen’s zeal for the art of wine with more than 150 Cooking Light kitchen-tested recipes and you have all the ingredients you need to reach new levels of gastronomical glory.
Features:
* Build your culinary knowledge base by combining 30 top-rated menus and recipes with wine recommendations for every season and any occasion
* More than 100 full color photographs give visual cues for presenting casually elegant dishes
* Demystifies wine terms with Karen MacNeil’s tried-and-true food and wine matchmaking concepts
* Offers Karen’s own Sip Tips—easy-to-remember wine descriptors and non-intimidating advice on buying, ordering, and serving wine
Customer Review: Chose It Over Its Chief Competitor
I have already commented on the virtues of this book which influenced me to prefer it over the highly vaunted volume: What To Drink With What You Eat by Dornenburg/Page. See the review there for the contrast, if interested.
The only thing that bugged me here was the apparent reluctance to use the word “Christmas” (!!!), but only the innocuous substitute “holiday” in the book’s “Winter” section. Are you kidding me? I realize MacNeil is the host of a PBS series, but has the tyranny of political correctness now extended this far? If the author finds no personal significance in the meaning of this most cherished of American celebrations, it was at the very least a major missed opportunity to address the occasion (directly) in her otherwise fine work. (Needless to say, the same applies to the “Easter”/”spring celebration” situation.)
Customer Review: wonderful gift
I received this as a gift and I am here to tell you, it is wonderful. I have made many, many of the recipes and they have all turned out great.. Even love it so much, I went out and bought it for 4 friends and they tell me they cannot wait to try the recipes.
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