by Brian | Oct 16, 2012 | Cooking Classes, Cooking Events, News
The wine versus beer debate can be conducted from many perspectives. This Friday at Cooking by the Book, we will have our own Beer versus Wine debate featuring Sommeliers Samuel Merritt (beer) and Harriet Lembeck (wine) as they bring their expert perspectives t a key...
by Brian | Oct 15, 2012 | Cooking Classes, Cooking Events
Men and women tend to have debates about key issues: money, children, do we have beer or wine with dinner. For example, men tend to favor beer while women are more partial to wine. This dichotomy is brilliantly described in the book He Said Beer She Said Wine by...
by Brian | Oct 9, 2012 | Cooking Classes, Cooking Events
This Friday — October 12 at 6:30 — at Cooking by the Book, we have our Wine Tour de France offering a guided selection of 11 wonderful French wines. David Hamburger, from the famed Acker Merrall & Condit Company here in New York City, will lead the tour....
by Brian | Oct 4, 2012 | Cooking Classes, Cooking Events, News
The words wine and France are synonymous. French wines are outstanding for both their quality and diversity. Many wine experts suggest that there is no single “French wine” but really a vast collection of outstanding wine regions that contribute to the French...
by Brian | Jul 5, 2012 | Cooking Events, News, Recipes
Suzen and I are bouncing between Portland and Seattle and many points in between. We spent today in Westport, Washington, a maritime village located on the southern tip of the entrance to Grays Harbor. Fortunately, the “Harbor” houses only fishing boats and...
by Brian | Mar 3, 2012 | Cooking Classes, Cooking Events, News
Our whole universe depends on the values of some important numbers, and the most important of those is π — you know 3.14159… It is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. But the number π appears everywhere in the science that drives our lives....
