Big Macs & Burgundy: Wine Pairings for the Real World

Description A national bestseller, Big Macs & Burgundy offers essential wine pairings for everything from popcorn to veggie burgers to General Tso’s Chicken, based on the wildly popular Grub Street column. As seen on the TODAY Show and CBS This Morning * Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Food & Wine, Saveur, and Town & Country “If you’ve ever wondered what wine to pair with some of your favorite foods, like, say, Cheez-Its (I certainly have), check out Big Macs & Burgundy.” —Food & Wine Sancerre and Cheetos go together like milk and cookies. The science behind this unholy alliance is as elemental as acid, fat, salt, and minerals. Wine pro Vanessa Price explains how to create your own pairings while proving you don’t necessarily need fancy foods to unlock the joys of wine. Chapters include: Subsistence Pairings: For the Shoestring Somm, Scrappy Doesn’t Have to Mean CrappySouthern Comforts: Bluegrass Basics for Coastal ElitesExtra Value Meals: McDonald’s: On Properly Lovin’ ItFast-Food Fixes: Hair of the Hot DogWine with Breakfast: The Best Part of Waking Up Is Fermentation in Your CupAnd more! Building upon the outsized success of her weekly column in Grub Street, Price offers delightfully bold wine and food pairings alongside hilarious tales from her own unlikely journey as a Kentucky girl making it in the Big Apple and in the wine business. Using language everyone can understand, she reveals why each dynamic duo is a match made in heaven, serving up memorable takeaways that will help you navigate any wine list or local bottle shop. Charmingly illustrated and bubbling with personality, Big Macs & Burgundy will open your mind to the entirely fun and entirely accessible wine pairings out there waiting to be discovered—and make you do a few spit takes along the way. Includes Color Illustrations and Photographs Publisher : Harry N. Abrams (October 13, 2020) Language : English Paperback : 240 pages ISBN-10 : 1419744917 ISBN-13 : 978-1419744914 Item Weight : 2.31 pounds Dimensions : 7 x 0.63 x 9 inches Customers say Customers find this wine pairing book to be a fun and instructive read, with stunning illustrations and photography that makes it a beautiful coffee table book. They appreciate how it makes wine pairing easy and practical, and one customer notes it’s unpretentious in its approach. Customers enjoy the witty writing style, with one describing it as reading like a funny memoir, and they find the stories and anecdotes engaging and relatable. AI-generated from the text of customer reviews