Harmony on the Palate: Matching Simple Recipes to Everyday Wine Styles

This book was recommended by one of our local wineries. It teaches you what wine to pick with your meal. You learn to bring out the best flavours in the wine and the food you are serving. It is an amazing expereince and it does make a huge difference. I really enjoyed this book and will continue to use it when I plan meals for dinner guests. Harmony on the Palate: Matching Simple Recipes to Everyday Wine Styles

Harmony On The Palate: Matching Simple Recipes To Everyday Wine Styles is the perfect introduction for aspiring kitchen cooks wanting to offer meals for all occasions where the etiquette of wines and menus match, and dining occasions are made memorable with cuisines being enhanced with their attendant beverages. Shari Darling devotes her considerable experience and expertise (she is a contributor to "Food & Beverage International" magazine) to layout "breakthrough principles" of food and wine pairings in a true celebration of multicultural cuisines, abetted by easy cooking techniques and the use of fresh ingredients. Harmony On The Palate ranges from Caviar on Potato Crisps (with Brut or Extra-Sec Sparkling Wine); to Tuscan White Bean Bruschetta (with Chardonnay); to Mayan Hot and Sour Chicken Soup (with Off-Dry Riesling); to Olive-Crusted Red Snapper (with Cabernet Sauvignon). The recipes are thoroughly "kitchen cook friendly" and the wine-goes-with-what charts are accessibly informative. If you want the best "how to" instructive cookbook on matching wines with foods, then add Harmony On The Palate to your own kitchen cookbook collection!

This is a darling collection of sophisticated recipes from Shari Darling, a renowned and respected food and wine writer. The receipes are delicate, delectible, and much easier to prepare than one would think. It's a harmonic introduction to cuisine and celebrates Darling's native Ontario wine country.