This age-old fruit is a timeless match for cheese
Whether fresh or dried, figs have long been prized for their promise of sweetness. Of all fruits, they...
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A perfect cheese needs the perfect wine -- or beer -- or tea. Find out what pairings will please your palate.
An all-American cheese-and-whiskey tasting reveals the best brown spirits for pairing.
“Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but I’d like to think that bourbon has some of the...
If you’ve been watching trends in America’s cocktail culture, you might have noticed that it mirrors the same quality that drives much of the American specialty cheesemaking scene—namely, a...
A creamy fresh cheese calls for a well-textured wine
"No, really, you have to have the ricotta.” I knew the guy urging me on had impeccable taste, yet I couldn’t imagine why I...
Pairing is a matter of style
The aha moment came over a bowl of pasta carbonara. Egg, bacon, cheese, pasta: so simple, yet so challenging to find a wine that can put up with that...
By Andy Jenkins
Mead Festival in Denver, Colorado. Despite the varying style guidelines for this competition, the ingredients in question haven’t varied one iota since mead’s early days....
By Tara Q. Thomas
Every holiday season I dream of blue cheese; at Saxelby Cheese, on Manhattan’s Lower East...
Be won over by a glass of grown-up apple juice
By Andy Jenkins
My Midwestern childhood brought with it some obligatory seasonal traditions: Sweet corn in the summer....
This versatile Spanish wine is a convincing match for many cheeses
By Tara Q. Thomas
A small glass of dry Sherry and a slice of Manchego: that was the...
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