<!--StartFragment-->Winner of the 2007 IACP Cookbook of the Year Award
Winner of the 2007 IACP Cookbook Award for Best Book on Wine, Beer or Spirits
Winner of the 2006 Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year Award
Winner of the 2006 Gourmand World Cookbook Award - U.S. for Best Book on Matching Food and Wine<!--EndFragment-->
Prepared by a James Beard Award-winning author team, "What to Drink with What You Eat" provides the most comprehensive guide to matching food and drink ever compiled--complete with practical advice from the best wine stewards and chefs in America. 70 full-color photos.
An VERY in-depth reference - say you're eating spicy shrimp and want to know what to pair it with, its there. For beer, wine, spirits, tea etc. It also works for pairing your wine with a good menu - say you get a nice long island red wine, half merlot, half cab franc from Rhonda - also lists the options available to you. For this wine, it recommends strong-flavored goat cheese, roasted lean beef, duck, mushroom, bell peppers, grilled salmon, sausage, thyme, tarragon, and roasted vegetables. Some entries even have foods to avoid with your drink, which is a nice addition.
Since my father can not drink alcohol, this is perfect for when we have him over for dinner and want to serve him something other than de-alcoholized wine or water. I use it more than once a week.
No wine lover or foodie can go wrong with this book. It takes all of the mystery out of wine pairing very simply. Just look up the ingredients in what you are serving and compare wines that pair well with them. It is that easy. This book has been invaluable to me.
Didn't finish this book, really all I did was skim it a bit. I was disappointed, the pictures of food were blah, and few, (seriously if I were going to print an entire book in gloss coated paper, I would have some amazing pictures, tons of them) and the book was just way too in depth for me.
I love this book. It's got a great tone from the onset, and it's scattered with great quotations from those in the know. For the most part, pretentiousness is avoided. Dornenburg and Page really want you to be happy and comfortable, and the information and advice is presented in a very easy to read format. The book works both ways, as well, first matching drink with food pairings, then matching food with drink pairings, so whether you know you're having the lamb, or whether you want something to nosh while drinking an IPA, this book's got you covered.
Most people have not a clue of what wine or beer to drink with what type of food. This book solves that problem. Also you know what you want to cook and eat but not what to drink. Again this book has the answer. Food to wine or Wine to food. This book is a must have for Food & Drink lovers
Best book on food/wine pairing I've found to date. Andrea Immer's "Great Tastes Made Simple" is worth owning, but presented more like a narrative than a reference book (like the Dornenburg and Page work).