Kitchen Cooking

Sometimes our customers come in and ask us what wine is best to serve with some dish that goes on the table that evening - you know - the old meat/red and fish/white thing.  Take today at our Saturday 3-6p tasting (132 Front Street/Greenport), we are sure to get the question in reverse, which is what food would go well with this wine.  We want to think globally and here is our chance.

We were watching Jacques Pepin this morning on Create TV and he made an interesting observation about cooking.  The meal isn't just on the plate on the table but it starts when the stove turns on and the first onion is chopped and goes until the dishes are cleared. Dinner is or perhaps should for most of us, a time to share the kitchen, to talk through the day, and to concentrate on each other and the ritual of an evening meal turned into a time to connect.  We don't want to sound preachy about this but what wine to serve for dinner should be rephrased as "what wine to enjoy during the dinner process"; what do we open up that is both a prelude to the meal and what we take to the table.

A glass of wine while preparing and talking, chatting, unwinding is not a bad thing and we recommend it.  Think of today's tasting as just figuring out what to bring home to make the dinner hour(s) special. 

Here is some music to set the mood.