Shirley Sarvis, Food and Wine Explorer
Sarvis, who died last week at 77, opened the door to critical examination of why food-and-wine matches work
Posted: Jan 28, 2013 11:38am ET
When I heard that Shirley Sarvis died last week at 77, it brought back memories of when I first started to investigate wine and food connections. It was the 1970s and not many of us were writing about it. Wine writers sometimes commented briefly on good matches when they came across them, but seldom tried to explain why they worked. Fewer food writers ventured into writing about wine. Sarvis was one of the rare kindred souls who had sound grounding in both camps.
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