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Hi my name is Christine and I’m a cookbook-food magazine junkie. Can’t gather enough, can’t stop by any checkout stand or book store feed division without picking one up, thumbing through it, reading the side-bars, looking at the photos, marveling when my next fix will kick in. I have a continuous longing, craving and yearning for the next one with beauteous pictures, will it ever end? I have a collection of when it comes to 200 books; food, wine, dessert, entertaining, beverage there are so a heap of that they now serve as ornamental adornments (dust collectors) allround my home. And the magazines, I have ultimately succumbed to tearing out the photos or recipes I veritably want and put them in my working binder and recycle the rest of the magazine to my hair salon (how Green of me! Not actually I just cannot fetch myself to throw away a $5 magazine that I purchased for just one recipe!).

I’ll confess in the beginning when the book was new I read it from cover to cover savoring each word, each photo and in truth made a good deal of of the feed porn that appealed to me the most. Speak to me in pictures don’t give me a cookbook without photos because it will never work among us. I need to see the food; desire it, lust after it, make the recipe and then move on. It just gets old after going through it a few times, same old recipes, same old pictures, same old outcome. OK this is beginning to sound like an article for the Dating Examiner I digress; the hard cover book with the shiny photo for each recipe is the type of book that gets me. Gets me each single time. Think of it as the bad-boy, type-A personality book. The one you can’t stay away from but the one you can’t stay with either. It’s the type of book that makes your knees buckle with it is cosmetic beauty, makes you giggle with delight over it is expansive and informative recipes with photos that take your breath away leaving you hungry for more.

OK this is a disease, the more you have the more you want, and for what? Let’s do the math, 200 books x say (conservatively) 100 recipes in each book = 20,000 recipes. 20,000!!!!!! Holy Mackerel! (I hate math, it’s so in your face). No I have never made, attempted to make or come close to making 20,000 recipes. That’s insane, 20,000 recipes! I recognise it, I read it, I just wrote it, it’s in black and white, and yet, the next gorgeous cover that catches my eye, I just may flirt with it but that’s where it begins and ends. No basi date, no innocent glass of wine to peruse with. Well perhaps a cup of mocha-java-yahoo with a large total of whipped cream in the coffee shop just to sit with the book for a bit…

My list of personal favored cookbooks, agreeably diverting books and beverage books run the gamut for a host of reasons. My all time favored and personal best is The Junior League of Boca Raton’s Savor the Moment, Entertaining without Reservations. Being a fellow member of the Junior League of Boca Raton I worked on the committee that published this James Beard Award winning book; it’s still so personal to this day after all these years later. I was a recipe developer, test cook, recipe sampler, photo design layout person, set-up/clean-up person but then again so were the 200 other extraordinary women who volunteered their time and expertness to what has become a bequest in Boca Raton as a splendid work of art and brilliance. I sound jaded and biased, a little, but the truth is each recipe was tested 3-5 times and the photo shoots agonized over for hours. Labor of love? Yes. A collectible book every one must have? Yes, because it is a great agreeably diverting book.

The Williams-Sonoma books, any and all. They are in a professional manner tried, tested and true. You cannot go faulty with any of their books and they have pictures for each recipe!

Just starting out? Betty Crocker. She’s the one. Begin with Betty. The book is still the best introduction on basic and instructional culinary knowledge. Betty’s got so a great deal of versions but whatsoever the latest is that’s the one to give as a bridal shower gift, engagement gift or new apartment gift.

The Coastal Living Cookbook. For two reasons one because I am published in this book! And two if you’re a seafood aficionado, live, work or play near the coast then you will be grateful for this book and all it has to offer. The recipes are tested and true, the photos make you want to buy a home on the water and entertain and cook for everyone you know. It’s a lifestyle, feel good type of book making you wish summer was a year-round season.

At Home with Carolyne Roehm. Just get this book for the pictures, you will learn so much with regards to entertaining, setting tables, flower arranging and embellishing just by looking.

Effortless Elegance with Colin Cowie. Exacting, Enchanting, Effortless. The recipes are delightful and delicious. The party tips and strategies, invaluable. My book is worn, tabbed, highlighted and used over and over again.

The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook. Gorgeous pictures with each recipe. Recipes are accomplishable no matter your level of skillfulness or lack thereof. The recipes are timeless and delicious over and over likeable to myriad of feed lovers and critics alike.

The Silver Palate Cookbook. The one and only exception to my rule of cookbooks must have photos or I kick you to the curb! This is gourmet. This is WOW! This is edgy. This is the most dynamic recipe book you will ever lay your hands on. Now with that said, this book is not for the faint of heart whimsical cook or spice missing out pantry. Pretty much you need to know your way around the kitchen, culinary terms and procedures if not, think going from the 1st grade to 9th and skipping everything in between, you won’t know what hit you. If you’re ready, the 25th Anniversary edition is on store shelves now.

101 Sangrias & Pitcher Drinks. Unless you have what rivals the W Hotel bar in your home you will need a heap of outlet of escape to serve cocktails to your guests and this book has got it all; sweet, sour, fruity, minty, creamy, you get the point, now get the book.

Wine Wise. Brilliant, witty and comprehensive. Want to recognise more regarding wine? This is the book that will take you on travels to countries and trails of vineyards that you couldn’t even imagine existed.

That’s 10 listed books. Didn’t I say I had 200? I hate math, it’s so in your face.

A wine book different from any other, THE FOOD LOVER’S GUIDE TO WINE offers a fresh perspective by way of the single aspect of wine most compelling to feed lovers: flavor.

At the heart of this indispensable reference, formatted like the authors’ two former bestsellers The Flavor Bible and What to Drink with What You Eat, is an encyclopedic A-to-Z guide profiling hundreds of dissimilar wines by their necessary characteristics-from body and intensity to distinguishing flavors, from suggested serving temperatures and idealisti feed pairings to commended makers (including a good deal of iconic examples). The book provides illuminating perceptivenesses from dozens of America’s best sommeliers by way of informative sidebars, charts and boxes, which supplement the book’s finelooking four-color photography. Another groundbreaking work from two of the extreme culinary insiders, this instant classic is the perfective gift book.

Review”The two most anticipated reference books are The Food Lover’s Guide to Wine by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg (Little, Brown) and The Oxford Companion to Beer (Oxford University Press).” –Paris Cookbook Fair newsletter, September 2011

“In writing The Food Lover’s Guide to Wine, internationally acclaimed writers Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg set out to simplify the subject, using the fresh perspective that if you love food, you know flavor – and you may master wine….An A-to-Z reference profiling more than 250 dissimilar wines.” –Drinks magazine, Fall 2011

“Major tomes coming down the pike…This husband-and-wife team are among the most highly-esteemed writers in the feed world and justly so. As with their former books, [they] breezily portion copious amounts of good data when it comes to feed and wine. Quality-of-life improvements are guaranteed.” –ManhattanUsersGuide.com, October 4, 2011

ON WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT: “This husband-and-wife team has long had the knack of being on the cutting edge of America’s fascination with the feed world…In this new work on the magical pairing of feed and wine, Dornenburg and Page again rely on a formidable array of insiders to inform and enliven their research.” – Chicago Tribune

“The husband-and-wife team of Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page-he is a chef, she a journalist-has developed four books in the past six years, and these are the best places to experience the cult of the New American Chef.” – New Yorker

“…Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page had me at ‘hello’ a long time ago. That was seven years ago when I read their initial book, Becoming a Chef. They went on to enthrall me with Culinary Artistry and then Dining Out, books that have enriched the fount of culinary noesis in North America…” – Vancouver Sun

From the Inside FlapPraised by Publishers Weekly as the “incisive, hip writing team” behind galore of the culinary world’s best-loved books, internationally acclaimed writers Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg fetch their hallmark style to the mission of opening the world of wine to feed lovers.

After seventeen successive years of growth, the United States has just become the number-one buyer of wine. However, the single greatest segment of American wine drinkers categorize themselves as “overwhelmed” by the tremendous array of selections offered in wine stores, on supermarket shelves, and on restaurant wine lists. In writing The Food Lover’s Guide to Wine, the writers set out to simplify the subject, using the fresh perspective that if you love food, you recognise flavor — and you may master wine.

This groundbreaking guide celebrates wine as an all-American beverage that’s a key percentage of our country’s history and culture, and provides an encyclopedic A-to-Z reference, profiling more than 250 wines by grape, region, weight, intensity, flavors, feed pairings, remarkable producers, and more. Laced allround are sidebars on finding wines you’ll love based on the foods you love, plus insider tips like “Ten Secrets for Getting More Pleasure from Wine” and “150 Wines Under $15.”

In The Food Lover’s Guide to Wine, you’ll be guided by dozens of one-time aspiring chefs, urban planners and rock stars who, through twists of fate, followed their passion for wine and became a lot of of America’s best sommeliers at such restaurants as Blue Hill, CityZen, Daniel, Eleven Madison Park, the French Laundry, the Inn at Little Washington, Le Bernardin, Manresa, No. 9 Park, Per Se, and Spago. They part in these pages their insider recommendations, including go-to wines for tough food-pairing challenges as well as favored wine regions that yield the best values.

This ceaselessly fascinating, highly entertaining, and beautifully illustrated four-color reference is the idealisti associate to the authors’ James Beard and IACP award-winning books The Flavor Bible and What to Drink with What You Eat — and an extraordinary landmark guide that will usher in a new era of wine mastery and enjoyment for all.

About the AuthorCited as two of a dozen “international culinary luminaries” along with Patrick O’Connell, Alice Waters, and Nina and Tim Zagat (in Relais & Chateaux’s L’Ame et L’Esprit magazine), Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg are the former weekly wine columnists for the Washington Post. Their books The Flavor Bible, What to Drink with What You Eat, The New American Chef, and Dining Out were all winners of or finalists for James Beard, IACP, and/or Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Their cult classic Culinary Artistry has been called a bestloved by chefs around the globe — including Grant Achatz, Michael Laiskonis, and assorted Top Chef winners — and Becoming a Chef was praised by Julia Child, who said she kept a copy by her bed (it’s now part of the Julia Child’s Kitchen exhibit at the Smithsonian). A graduate of Northwestern and the Harvard Business School, Karen Page was one of 100 distinguished alumnae named by Northwestern’s President as a founding fellow member of The Council of 100. Andrew Dornenburg studied with the legendary Madeleine Kamman at the School for American Chefs and cooked in a professional manner in top restaurants in New York and Boston. The married couple lives in Manhattan. You may find them on Twitter @KarenAndAndrew.