Food

Chef Matt Gordon’s Steamed Baja Mussels with Smoked Tomato Butter

photograph of a white porcelain bowl with Urban Solaces' matt Gordon's Baja Mussles with Smoked Tomato Butter heaped into the dish

Last week as I was creating the commentary of the Witness Tree Pinot Gris, I knew it would pair perfectly with the Steamed Baja Mussels with Smoked Tomato Butter that I often order at Solace & the Moonlight Lounge, but the internet didn’t provide a facsimile recipe to link to share with you. I published [...]

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Foods from Chile Next Top Blogger Contest

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Wine Harlots are big fans of Wines of Chile. Our first post was a Chilean wine, a sauvignon blanc so elegant I opined, “If this wine was a man, I’d marry him.” A wine-marriage made in heaven, to be sure. When the opportunity to came to partner up with Foods from Chile and Kitchen Play to talk about the [...]

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Dinner and Wine for $20 or Less

jacket cover of the ebook Dinner and Wine for $20 Twenty Dollars or Less by Amy Gross and Erin Chase

 ”You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” – Paul Prudhomme Free is a very good price, I often say. Today and tomorrow (January 24-25, 2013) you can download a digital copy of Dinner and Wine for $20 or Less from Amazon for no cost. After the promotional period ends, the purchase price of the book [...]

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Wine Harlots Win Twice in the Snooth People’s Voice Awards Epicurean Edition

photograph of the Wine Harlots award-winning recipe for grilled proscuitto wrapped asparagus Hors d’oeuvres prefect for parties

 ”I am not a glutton. I am an explorer of food.” — Erma Bombeck The votes are in, and Wine Harlots win! The inaugural Snooth People’s Voice Award Epicurean Edition has concluded and the winners have been announced. Wine Harlots were dual winners in the event with the crowd-pleasing Grilled Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus getting the victory in the Hors [...]

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Wine Harlots Holiday Gift Wish List

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“I don’t know what’s in the box, but I love it. Unopened gifts contain hope.” ― Jarod Kintz Here’s a few items that have caught my eye that I would love to see under the Wine Harlots Christmas tree this year. Extravagant and unrealistic? Sure. But isn’t that what a gift wish-list is all about? Travel [...]

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Bon Appétit Julia Child

photograph of julia child from the ground breaking television program the French Chef

“The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bon appétit.” – Julia Child Wine Harlots are raising a glass to Julia Child, the groundbreaking pioneer of American cooking on the 100th anniversary of her birth. A few years ago, I was paid [...]

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Fun Lifestyle Food & Wine Pairings

illustration of dark rye by whole foods market wine pairing infographic with unusual and fun wine pairing suggestions

Here’s a fun infographic from Dark Rye, a new on-line publication from Whole Foods Market. Check out the irreverent pairings and create your own. Who says the wine world has to be stuffy? Not the Wine Harlots! It’s just juice, after all, so have some playfulness with your wine. What’s your guilty pleasure? The illustration [...]

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Beaujolais & Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza

illustration of a vintage chicago postacard with red script and sights of Chicago super-imposed on the card. This was the first stop on the Wines of France Across America Road Trip

Chicago deep-dish pizza is legendary. Ooey-gooey deliciousness that takes nearly an hour to bake and a single slice is a meal. After the Wines of France Across America Team descended on Chicago we made a bee-line for deep-dish. Of course, we were told when we phoned in the order, “twenty-minutes.” When we arrived a half-hour [...]

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My Last Supper :: Melanie Dunea

photograph of the book cover of My last Supper Fifty Great Chefs and Their Final Meals by Melanie Dunna

“If you were to die tomorrow, what single dish, what mouthful of food from anywhere in the world or anytime in your life, would you chose as your last? What would be your choice for your last meal on earth?” – Anthony Bourdain A simple premise. A deceptively difficult challenge to master. What would be [...]

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Food Porn: Bordeaux Edition

photograph of wine glasses on a aged wooden table on a tray with logos etched with Planet Bordeaux and a glass in the foreground filled with golden white Bordeaux wine

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”  — Voltaire photo credits: EatonAlive ©2011 The Wine Harlots feeding frenzy was part of a press tour sponsored by Planet Bordeaux.

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