The Ultimate Guide to Food and Drink Pairings: Expert Tips for Matching Wine, Beer, Spirits, and More with Your Meals

Amazon Customer: Selecting a wine for a dinner is often simple. Cab-sov with red meat and white wine with fish. This book however explores the depths of the culinary world. If you ever wondered what drink to serve with camembert, game meats, sea urchin, or Bratwurst, this book is for you. The wine directory also helps with pairing an unfamiliar wine with a dish, which could help you explore new recipes.

Canada on Dec 29, 2022

tegan: Great Book, but the cover was quite scratched.

Spain on Dec 07, 2021

Chris: But they match Scandinavian Cuisine with only Aquavit, Beer (Lager) and Schnapps. Aquavit/Schnapps (high alcohol content) is only drunk to specific dishes during certain holidays like Christmas and Midsummer. Beer works with a lot of dishes. Scandinavian cuisine is a big area that works very well with wine. Do not forget that we also have small but thriving vineyards!
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Sweden on May 10, 2021

Laurie: I don't claim to be a wine expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I do appreciate good food and wine pairings when dining out. This guide has given me a "cheater" shortcut to food and beverage pairings at home. I reference it often, whether ordering takeout, cooking a home meal, or planning a menu for guests. I appreciate the user-friendly organization, through which you can look up either a food or wine in alphabetical order for pairing suggestions. Wine receives the most attention here, but other beverages (beer, cider, etc.) also get their due. This book has earned a prime spot on my cookbook self, and I reach for it often. A keeper!

United States on Oct 16, 2020

Osmar Htz: Wooooow. Vaya nivel de detalle y calidad de contenido. Me ha sido muy útil para comprender más acerca de la armonía del vino y los alimentos.

Mexico on Sep 14, 2019

Jude cornelio: A fine book and a good read. The book acts as a guideline for pairing drinks with foods. I would also recommend reading the flavor bible by the same author.

India on Oct 26, 2017

M. Bailey: As an intermediate home cook and wine lover I *love* this book. I received it as a gift years ago and use regularly. Once you read the first few chapters you won't really use them much again, though I've gone back and re-read them occasionally anyway.

The core of the book is literally the "What to Drink with What you Eat" and the "What to Eat with What you Drink" sections. I am constantly flipping back and forth hoping to create harmony in the kitchen. Sometimes I begin with a decided main course then skim the suggested wine pairings; then I go to the wine selection and look for companion flavors for a side dish selection. Other times I begin with a particular wine i am curious about or am just craving at the moment and find complementing foods to prepare a menu. That's what I mean by flipping back and forth; I love it, so much fun!

After years of using this book I have (thankfully) retained some knowledge and actually feel as though I have learned and advanced my wine pairing skills as well as my passion to do so.

As for the Kindle edition, it needs some work. Right now it is complicated and cumbersome to use as a reference book. I would love a simplified...

United States on May 06, 2014

C: Everyone knows how to spot a wine snob, high class, arrogant, sips a little wine, smells it. Well now you can be that person w/o having to be arrogant. This book will explain what wines go with what foods, why you sniff a wine, how to taste it, what to look for in a wine and many other fun facts.

Everyone knows that red meat and red wine go well together but what goes well with a roast,or short ribs, heck even meatloaf? This book will help you.It goes beyond just main ingredients, it teaches you to also look at the other aspects of it as well such as different herbs, spices, the marinade you use, and how your going to cook it. Even mashed potatoes have more than just potatoes.

I have worked in restaurants and even have a degree in culinary and I must say, this is a good point to start with and even to look back as a reference point. I own all three reference books  Culinary Artistry , The Flavor Bible  and this one and I read them almost every day. Great series of books by the authors, I trust these books like I trust my chefs at school.

United States on Sep 15, 2008

Volatile_Acidity: I may run out of superlatives in the course of this review, so I'm just warning you now. What to Drink with What You Eat is absolutely the most spectacular book ever written about pairing food with wine. It will turn you instantly into a world-class sommelier, confidently able to pair virtually any cuisine with a compatible choice. What's more, the recommendations extend far beyond wine to include beer, sake, spirits coffee, tea and different types of water, so even a teetotaler can derive some value. There isn't a food- or wine-lover on the planet who wouldn't benefit from having the book always on hand as a resource.

The secret sauce here is that the authors, who have great credentials themselves, have also enlisted the input of dozens of top sommeliers and other authorities to create an uber-reference, one that gains considerably from its generous tendency to be more rather than less inclusive in offering up suggestions. Think of the principle of "the wisdom of crowds," but here the crowd are all experts and have the chops to back up their opinions. The list of foods, cuisines and beverages that are explored is truly encyclopedic, so odds are pretty good whatever you...

United States on Jun 28, 2008