Product Description

From the author of the best selling Wine Lover's Cookbook comes the Wine Lover Cooks With Wine - 80 recipes using wine as the signature ingredient. After showing us how well wine on the table can complement a meal, Sid Goldstein is here to teach us how using wine in a recipe can add complexity and intensity to any dish. In his customary easy-going style Goldstein explains how different wines work best in different styles of cooking as well as how they bring out or compliment flavours inherent in main ingredients. Whether used to delicately poach fresh fish, braise an intense stew, or as a dark, rich reduction, the addition of wine can make a boring dish great and a great dish spectacular. Starting with an introduction to varietals, fortified, and specialty wines, the book is then organized by cooking technique - Sauces, steaming, Simmering and Poaching, Marinating, and Braising. Finally, a chapter of Side Dishes and Desserts (wine free) round out a fabulous meal. For those curious to know more about cooking with wine, a bibliography points readers in the right direction. For those who love their wine, The Wine Lover Cooks With Wine is the ultimate guide to cooking with wine.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #234274 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From Publishers Weekly
According to Goldstein, wine is a "magical ingredient" that "tenderizes and adds moisture to food, as well as imparting a deep, complex flavor." The author of The Wine Lover's Cookbook now explains how to not just pair wine with food, but actually cook with it, presenting his own recipes plus many collected from American chefs, all requiring a certain amount of culinary expertise. Most dishes are made with traditional and contemporary varietal wines, but fortified and specialty wines also make appearances. The recipes are organized by the cooking technique using wine: sauces; steaming; simmering and poaching; marinating; or braising. Traditional recipes mix with international flavors in dishes such as Florida chef Allen Susser's Adobo-Grilled Filet Mignon, and Washington, D.C., chef Nora Pouillon's Coq au Vin, and Tequila-and-Sherry-Marinated Prawns Diablo. There's also a chapter on non-wine-based side dishes designed to complement the entrées in the book, such as Roasted Garlic and Horseradish Mashed Potatoes and Gorgonzola. A final section on desserts and drinks offers recipes for Drunken Chocolate Cake with Port and Hot Mulled "Touchdown" Shiraz. Goldstein recommends wines to drink with each recipe—rarely the same wine that was used in the dish. Paul Moore's unimaginative but palatable photos add color and visual accompaniment to this sophisticated and informative master class in cooking with wine.
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About the Author
Sid Goldstein is a writer specializing in food and wine and is also the co-author of From the Earth to the Table, which won the Book of the Year at the IACP's Julia Child Cookbook Awards. He lives in the Bay Area of Northern California. Paul Moore is a San Francisco-based photographer whose work has been published worldwide. He lives in the Bay Area.