Quotes About Pairing

You don't do oysters and red wine together. That's a no-no; you just don't do that. I love a nice white wine with oysters.

I love food and wine, they are both passions of mine.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

The world of wine is more creative than the world of cooking.

I love a rack of lamb with a good bottle of red wine.

I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.

Cold white wine is so good with fatty, fried food.

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.

I have a glass of wine. Red. Generally when I'm cooking.

I love cooking with wine.

A tender beef roast with a well-browned exterior is about as easy to pair with wine as a dish can be. You have your pick of just about any medium- to full-bodied red wine, from any place.

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

I don't drink coffee. I like nice wines with dinner.

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

Everybody tries so hard to pair wines with Indian food, and it has never been a natural marriage.

The pair of us are like salt and sugar: such different flavors, but so close in every other way you could never sort us apart once we're together.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

I always think about taking 10 random people off the street and trying to pair them. Probably a lot of them are not going to work out, but randomly one might. That's basically what they're doing on 'The Bachelorette.' Here's 25 guys, see if you like one of them and it might work out.

I love any type of cheese, preferably on a large board with a glass of Chateauneuf-du-Pape.

The world's worst flavor combination was mango and menthol.

Brussels sprouts, peaches

I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

This is the Penfolds Bin Eight Cab. It has notes of imitation crabmeat