Madison Foodie

“The recipe looked great in the magazine (book, online, or on TV), but then I tried to make it and it just didn’t work”.
Behind this complaint is the mistaken belief that simply following recipes from a cookbook will actually teach you to cook well, as if a paint by numbers kit could teach you to [...]

Sometimes the best insights on a topic come from the most opinionated cranks.  That’s true in food (Richard Olney) and it’s true in wine. Especially in Kermit Lynch’s book: Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer’s Tour of France.
Kermit Lynch founded his eponymous wine store in San Francisco around the time his friend [...]