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Go Ahead, Cook With That Cheap Plonk

Julia Child once said, "If you do not have a good wine to use, it is far better to omit it, for a poor one can spoil a simple dish and utterly debase a noble one," but in today's New York Times Julia Moskin says cheap wine works just fine. She did a blind taste test of three risottos, each made with a different red wine. The most expensive was a $70 Barolo, the cheapest was a Charles Shaw cabernet sauvignon Trader Joe's shoppers know as Two-Buck Chuck. Barolo is "made entirely from the nebbiolo grape, is a legendary Italian wine; by law, it must be aged for at least three years to soften its aggressive tannins and to...

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2 Comments | Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 21, 2007 at 4:19 PM
Tagged: alcohol, cooking, Julia Child, Julia Moskin, Two-Buck Chuck, wine

All the News That's Fit to Eat Part II

New York Times food reporters Kim Severson and Julia Moskin (full disclosure here; I know both of them and the three of us have broken bread together) had a front-page story today detailing the growth of meal assembly centers around the country. People looking to save time and money and still put what can only loosely be called a "home-cooked meal" on their family table go to one of these centers and make "12 dinners for six in two hours for under $200." I wonder what Alice Waters, who has been saying for years that the disappearing "family meal" is one of the chief causes of the de-evolution of family life in this country, thinks about these centers, which use...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Ed Levine, March 26, 2006 at 12:43 PM
Tagged: Alice Waters, cooking, Julia Moskin, Kim Severson, New York Times, NYT, Sysco