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Wine and Food, Modernist Style

Some ideas from the Modernist Cuisine cookbook
Posted: Mar 29, 2011 11:00am ET

I have been browsing the new six-volume Modernist Cuisine cookbook to see how it handles wine. Most cookbooks don't even bother with wine, except to specify generically red or white to use in a specific recipe. A few offer suggestions of what to drink with a dish.

The advice on pairing wine and food pretty much jibes with my own experience, however. That's not surprising, because I know the author, Nathan Myhrvold, qualifies as a wine aficionado.

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