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100 down! Plus a final message of love to my recipe testers!
February 4, 2010
A month ago today, I hit “send” on the manuscript for my second “100 Perfect Pairings” cookbook. It took me a week or so to recover, then another couple of weeks to catch up with all I’d been putting off, and then, well, another week of procrastinating blogging and – here we are!
Read more »48 down, 52 to go – plus more love for my recipe testers!
September 21, 2009
I’m narrowing in on finishing the first half of the book – working on the last white wine chapter, Gewürztraminer (gah-VERTZ-trah-mee-ner), this week and next. After only one day in the kitchen, I’ll go out on a limb and say that it’s going really well.
Read more »A shout out to my recipe testers
August 19, 2009
Today I was up to my eyeballs in recipe edits and yield tests for spelt and farro and cracked wheat, oh my, and what should arrive in my inbox but an email from one of my recipe testers for my book, with photos of her in the kitchen, having a ball, making my recipes, and I just had to stop and smile at the fact that anyone, let alone these 14 people, would volunteer to help me with my work, and think it’d be fun to try my recipes and evaluate them with various wines, totally at their own expense, AND have a good enough time doing it to take happy pictures and send them to me.



