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Title: Great Tastes Made Simple by Andrea Immer ISBN: 0-7679-0907-0 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Guiding Two Passions For Taste
Comment: A real Immer fan, here Andrea is over the top with what many of us really need, how to match great food with great wine. Immer is well trained and experienced with both, and here she combines her normal passion for her subject matter along with clarity and creativity.
This work encourages one to experiment with important contrasts, looking for earthiness vs. spiciness, and the acidity and richness of wine with the food.
This she accomplishes with great text along with Tasting Charts featuring "Matching Food ... with Wine Styles to Try." There one will find unusual combos which we would not normally even attempt, but here are great recommendations to venture out into the world of wine and find new combos.
Even the tougher combos, e.g. Sweet and sour are covered, as she provides a great chart on this mathcing, getting one such as myself to try stuff like Dry Muscat and Viognier which I never would have attempted on my own.
This book is like "Wine Water Wings" which allows one to venture out into deeper wine water to find that ultimate taste explosion with excellent food.
Will become a great companion!
Rating: 5
Summary: Critical Thinking Beyond The Beverage
Comment: With this book Immer provides still more useful information for people interested in making wine part of the dinner table. Quite an accomplishment, considering her "Great Wines Made Simple" was for me the most useful wine volume ever encountered. Here, Immer moves beyond the beverage and provides the reader with her accessible theories about how food flavors connect to wine flavors. For someone like me, someone interested in home entertaining and striving to give a guest a memorable dining experience, this book moves past anything else I've read concerning the wine arena.
Unlike other authors who provide esoteric descriptions of wines-- descriptions they don't seem to realize may vary according to the individual inclinations of the taster-- Immer acknowledges the variety of preferences amongst diners. She does not come from an attitude of "informing" readers of her Vast Knowledge; rather she lends teaching tools that enable readers to form their own intelligent opinions of what works and does not work for their particular tastes. A natural educator, she alternates between easily-digested theories, theories often summarized in simple chart form, and hands-on, effective experiments. Her experiments are the most pragmatic kind: tastings. In this way, she promotes an understanding of flavor combinations in a way that is most visceral-- through the mouth.
Her theories make sense, and they work-- I know because I've tried them! Her reading inspired me to spend way too much on sample wines and test them with various foods. Because she is not merely presenting a list of try-this-wine-with-that-cheese, pair-Wine-A-with-Recipe-X, but rather because she is giving us readers categorical theories about why some wine styles connect to certain types of foods, we can develop our own menus based on what foods we are interested in and what wines please our palates. In this way, her book can sit on the shelf beside such theory-driven volumes as "Culinary Artistry," Peterson's "Sauces," Gold's cookbooks, and Schneider's "A New Way To Cook." Immer puts the reader in the creative position rather than calling for imitation with an encyclopedia of recipes.
What is still more appealing about her approach is that she is dedicated to making wine a part of everyday dining. She acknowledges good flavor combinations at every level of cost, time, and creativity. Her enthusiasm for her subject is contagious. It might tempt a reader to obtain her third book, the "Wine Buying Guide." But while Immer's "Wine Buying" guide is fine, it is an example of the "old guard" of wine information: a guide that lets the reader get lost in the forest for all the trees. For me, "Great Tastes" provides a far superior way of thinking, because it empowers me to make choices based on the information on the wine label rather than in a wine guide.
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Title: Great Wine Made Simple : Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier by Andrea Immer ISBN: 076790477X Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Andrea Immer's 2004 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone by ANDREA IMMER ISBN: 0767915445 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil ISBN: 1563054345 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Andrea Immer's Wine Buying Guide for Everyone by ANDREA IMMER ISBN: 0767911849 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2004 Edition : A Lively Guide by Kevin Zraly ISBN: 1402708882 Publisher: Sterling Pub. Date: 28 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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