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...

Drink easy. The Wine Lover's Calendar features a year of wine advice you can trust from Karen MacNeil, author of The Wine Bible. Here are hundreds of fantastic recommendations, plus tips, advice, history, and lore. Baron de Lay's Rioja reserva, with lingering cherry, chocolate, and caramel flavors. Toeing the line between creamy and crisp, the spellbindingly nuanced Merry Edwards sauvignon blanc. Plus the reds of Germany's Ahr region, pairing tips for Girl Scout Cookies, why zinfandels tend to be high in alcohol, and quotes: "Compromises are for relationships, not wine" (Sir Robert Scott Caywood).
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