{"id":2356,"date":"2010-11-04T18:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T01:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2010-11-04T18:21:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T01:21:32","slug":"food-wine-books-the-perfect-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2010\/11\/04\/food-wine-books-the-perfect-combination\/","title":{"rendered":"Food, Wine, Books..the Perfect Combination"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFavorite thing I enjoy\u00a0 about\u00a0 being on my book tour for my latest release The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays & Special Occasions-2nd edition\u00a0 is meeting so many ..and hearing of new little towns and places and traditions and foods..most Italian and some from other parts of the World..every culture in the World is somehow related to food.
\nAt an event last weekend someone shared with me their Romanian grandmother\u2019s recipe for a type of eggplant dip..A pizza maker,so proud of his pizza told me\u00a0 a story of how he found out that one of his customers enjoyed his pizza with ketchup on it..so insulted he was that he told this customer he would never sell him pizza again\u2026and on and on the food stories go\u2026
\nMy second favorite part is that I get to share my knowledge of wines and cooking with wine recipes and tips.. And when speaking about wines..my first suggestion is to read the label of the wine..just as if you would read a food label.. But I realized that many terms used on wine labels are in Italian and some terms are technical similar to \u00a0musical terms\u2026you know Allegro\u2026con vivace\u2026con dolcezza\u2026and not always easy \u00a0to decipher.
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\nHere are some of my favorite wine terms you can find on bottles or\u00a0 or you may over hear these terms at your next wine tasting:
\nAbboccato- lightly sweet
\nAmabile-semi sweet
\nAzienda Agricola or Vitivinicola-the farm or estate that produces all or most of the grapes for wine sold under its\u2019 label
\nCerasuolo- cherry-hued rose wine
\nChiaretto-deep rose
\nDolce- sweet
\nConsorzio-consortium of producers
\nEnologo-an enologist with a university degree
\nFattoria-farm or estate
\nInvecchiato-aged
\nFrizzante-bubbly,sparkling
\nImbottigliata- bottled
\nPassito or Passita-partially dried grapes and the strong sweet wines made from them
\nRosso-red wine
\nSecco-dry
\nSpumante-sparkling dry or sweet wine
\nUva-grape
\nVino Novello- literally means new wine. But it is a wine that must be bottled and sold within the year of it\u2019s harvest.
\nVino da Tavola-table wine, not usually with a DOC or trademark. Most homemade wines are vino da tavola
\nVendemmia- harvest
\nSee you:\u00a0
\nNovember 13th at Borders Express in Woodbridge, NJ
\nDecember 3rd -Feast of the Seven Fishes Dinner and Book signing at Copper Fish Restaurant in Cape May, NJ
\nPeace, Love & Pasta,
\nMaria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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