WINE and food pairing
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Barefoot, really? What a shitty wine.
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- chile wine - i'm a fan. Need to remember this one.hiatus
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For the wine lover, though, finding an ideal match is more complicated. It will not be found with Gewurztraminer. That varietal's spicy profile can work every now and then, but it usually collides with the nuances of Indian food. Almost every Indian dish begins with a blend of spices, so our challenge was to find out which spices warm up to which wines.
We called on Ruta Kahate, an Indian culinary teacher and author based in the East Bay, for guidance. The three of us met to consider her list of the 10 most crucial spices in Indian cuisine -- mustard seeds, cardamom, turmeric, cumin, black pepper, mace/nutmeg, ginger, bay leaves, cloves and cinnamon. Cayenne we put in a class of its own, making 11. Then we devised a list of about 80 wines -- as obvious as Syrah and as esoteric as Muller-Thurgau.
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- Atkinson0
I think wine goes well with food
- eficks0
cognac thanks
- ********0
9 out of 10 dinner guests wouldn't know paired wine and food if it got down to it on the table in front of them.
I'm quiet an epicurean, but if the food and drink is good, the meal is good.
- jruggs0
...mmm it does go well with the chicken, delicious again, peter
- bulletfactory0
the swiss army knife of zens
