Unlikely food and wine matches
Wednesday 2 February 2005
Julia Harding MW earned multiple prizes last year by not only passing her Master of Wine exams at the first attempt, but coming top too. I feel very privileged that she is currently toiling away two days a week going over the viticultural and oenological entries in The Oxford Companion to Wine with a fine toothcomb so that those aspects of the third edition, due out sep 06, will be even better. (The rest is my responsibility.) She sent me the following suggestion for an unlikely food and wine match and I’m so thrilled to know that she does allow...
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