The Cooking With Wind Diary

When the topic of food and wine arises, the usual flow of conversation revolves around what wine to drink with dinner. The topic that almost never arises: what wine to put in dinner. Well, you know those bottles of wine you picked up because they were on sale, and now you're wondering what you are going to do with them?

I've got your answer: Cook and bake with the wine. You probably wouldn't want to cook with a special bottle of wine but those “on-sale” specials collecting dust in the pantry -- why not?

The reasoning behind cooking with wine is to intensify and enhance the flavor of food. Wine is known to release flavors in many foods that otherwise would not be experienced. It is amazing the difference that cooking with wine can make in a wide variety of foods and how very simple it can be. Wine's complexity of flavors and aromas can make it the perfect added ingredient for cooking.
But there really is more to cooking with wine than using up those inexpensive “wine specials” collecting dust. Wine is a complex beverage and it's use in cooking has many implications. We discuss those is this book.
Cooking with wine can be a pleasure and a great enhancement to the final taste.