What to Drink with What You Eat: The Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea - Even Water - Based on Expert Advice from America's Best Sommeliers

This is a real gold mine of information for anyone interested in food and drink matching. Most of the book consists of two sections, the first indexed by food giving suggested matching drinks, and the second indexed by drinks giving suggested matching food. Unlike most books on the subject, it also considers drinks other than wine, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. These sections are farly comprehensive - there's even suggestions for what wines to drink with KFC or McDonalds, should you have the inclination. Sometimes there is a certain lack of symmetry between the two sections - you may find that although drink A references food B, food B may not necessarily reference drink A and vice versa. This occasional sloppy editing does not detract from the usefulness of this book too much. Because the authors have enlisted a large panel of experts (I counted over 70 names in the appendix) in compiling the lists, this avoids any narrow bias of personal preferences and gives a wider choice of suggestions than if it was compiled by a single individual. Each suggestion given in the list for each food/drink is given a grading (1-4 scale indicated by normal font, bold, bold capitals or starred) according to how many of the experts suggested it.There is an introductory section discussing the principles of food and drink matching, but this is relatively concise (there is also an end section with some of the experts giving their dozen "desert island wines" along with the food they would eat with it; this section is about as much use as a chocolate teapot to you and I however as they all tend to choose some ridiculously expensive vintage wines from Chateau Somewhere-You've-Never-Heard-Of). This book would best be used therefore in conjunction with some other book teaching you more detail about the principles of food and wine matching (for example Food and Wine Pairing: A Sensory Experience).

If you love to cook and struggle with wine or you love wine and want a better idea of how to make the most of what you have, novice or someone in the trade, this is a great book. It's really helped me at work and I'm definitely buying copies for my family for Christmas. It really is one of those books, that if you're a foodie will move in to your kitchen and never move out.

I bought this book to share with my students studying a Diploma in Hospitality, it has proved to be a great source of reference and opened a whole new world of taste sensations for them. I would recommend this book for someone who wants to know more about matching food and drink, without being "snobbish" asbout it.

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This is a very useful book for anyone wanting to make the most of a special meal, or simply to learn more about how food & drinks can ( & should!) complement each other. My only criticism would be that there are some notable omissions, but this is most likely because it is an American book, and so the availability of certain foods / wines would be different for the U.K.

Good product and sent on time

Exactly what I was looking for!

Good information

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.

Great Book, but the cover was quite scratched.

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!You lose one star because of this big miss.

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.

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.