When you're throwing up your pumpkin pie vodka and all you have left in your pantry to refuel is Pumpkin Jones Soda and Pumpkin Pringles, we hope you think twice next time you fuel the insatiable pumpkin-flavored market.
What makes a perfect food and wine pairing? Turns out, there are six common flavor fundamentals anyone can learn that provide the basis to matching food and wine.
In my four undergraduate years of college, I have had eleven different and wonderful roommates, I have frequented three dining hall cafeterias, and I have cooked in two different small college kitchens.
Take a small sip of your wine, swish it around, and pretend to spit it out in your cup. Do not actually spit it out. You will not be able to make it through an entire evening with oenophiles otherwise.
Umami is a hot topic in the food world these days. One of of five distinctive tastes -- the others are salt, sweet, sour, and bitter -- it packs a wallop when it hits the tongue.
Why do we need experts (and I am one of those) to teach, tell and advise us on what wine tastes like? So we won't dribble it down our lips and bibs and never have a clue as to what we are tasting?