Wine and Food
"Wine exists for food. Without the context of food, wine is a eunuch, a sterile experience which soon acquires distorted features." "The more it finds itself on the table, the less exacting one gets in trying to ensure that just the right wine goes with just the right dish."1
1. Matt Kramer, Making Sense of Wine (Philadelphia; Running Press Book Publishers, 2003), 187, 188
Cheese
Food
Resources
- 15 Rules for Great Wine and Food Pairings - Includes recipes
- Wine and Food Pairings Basics - General principles and useful links with more detail
- Mastering the Art of Wine and Food Pairings, Wine Enthusiast - another way of presenting the basics
- How to Match Wine with Food, 6 Tips, Wine Spectator - Helps to understand the meaning of "body" as applied to wine
Books
One of my favorites (great photos and recipes):
The Wine Lover's Cookbook: Great Meals for the Perfect Glass of Wine by Sid Goldstein
Dartmouth Sites
Class of 1968