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9780761184843

This Calls for a Drink! The Best Wines and Beers to Pair with Every Situation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761184843

  • ISBN10:

    0761184848

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2016-06-14
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

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Summary

What wine goes with your life?

Any decent wine book can tell you what to drink with a grilled steak. But what’s the best wine to pair with a blind date? For watching the Oscars? For a big birthday? Written by Diane McMartin, this inspired drinking guide matches wines and beers to the significant—and not so significant—events in life.

Binge-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Try a Riesling—refreshing but with depth. Dumped a jerk? Celebrate with a sparkling rosé. Here are hundreds of unexpected recommendations delivered in a voice that is fresh, hip, full of attitude, and as solidly informative as it is entertaining. It’s everything you need to know to drink like an adult, even if you don’t always behave like one.
 

Author Biography

Diane McMartin is a Certified Sommelier and graduate of the Culinary Institute of America's Accelerated Wine and Beverage Certificate Program. The writer behind the “What Goes with . . .?” beverage-pairing column on The Hairpin, she lives in the Washington, DC, area, where she works in retail teaching wine education classes, helping customers find the perfect beverage, and wading through the seemingly endless ocean of bad Chardonnay out there.

Table of Contents

Introduction v

The Basics 1
Learn to Taste Wine and Beer without Losing Your Mind • Buying Wine and Beer • Wine Labels Demystified • Glassware, Tools, and Other Potential Rip-Offs

Dating, Mating, Rejection, and Heartbreak 31
Breakups • Online Dating • One-Night Stands • Family Matters • Social Media Stalking • Your New Crush

Just Us Girls 63
A Trashy Girls’ Night • Secret Single Behavior • Time-Consuming Beauty Rituals

Growing Up and Getting Older 77
Your “Big” Birthday • Discovering Signs of Aging • Class Reunions • Graduation • Thwarted Childhood Fantasies

The Holidays 103
Avoiding Mall Vertigo: Choosing Wine and Beer as Gifts • Hosting Thanksgiving • Halloween • Your New Year’s Resolution Diet • Minor Holidays

Home and Hosting 129
Roommates • Stuck Inside: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and Other Climate Change–Induced Severe Weather • Your New Home • Theme Parties • Pretending to Be a Grown-Up (Dinner Parties)

Movies and Television 151
Classic-Movie Night • Dress Snarking: Sparkling Cocktails for Awards-Show Season • Your Next Netflix Binge

Music 165
Your Favorite Music • Music Festivals, or, Drowning Out the Stench of Patchouli and Weed

Reading 175
Aspirational Magazines • Important Novels You Pretend to Have Read (or Can Barely Remember . . .)

Summer 187
Embarrassing Yourself in the Great Outdoors • Other People’s Vacations • Summer Trips • Your Overpriced Farmers’ Market Bounty

Weddings 207
Your Best Friend’s Wedding • Your Proposal

Spawning 217
Baby Showers • Learning the Ropes

Work 231
Your “Just for Now” Job • Work Functions • Career Milestones

Glossary 246
Online Resources 253
Acknowledgments 256
Index 257

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