Vintage Texas: Cooking with Lone Star Wines - Hardcover

Giordano, Jr., Frank R.

9780884158561: Vintage Texas: Cooking with Lone Star Wines

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088415856X ISBN 13: 9780884158561

Publisher: Gulf Publishing, 1996

This unique cookbook presents 145 recipes for delicious dishes prepared with or accompanied by the finest winers from the Lone Star State. Top Texas Chefs from well-known restaurants, Texas winemakers, and enthusiastic amateur cooks conributed their talents to this imaginative collection. This creative cookbook delights oenophiles and gastronomes alike as they enhance any meal by preparing or matching it with these superb wines.

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About the Author:

Frank R. Giordano Jr., PH.D., has been a professional writer for more than 25 years. A professor of English literature at the University of Houston since 1973, Dr. Giordano has published two books and nearly 50 articles and reviews in his academic disciplines. An active writer in American wines and golf, he wrote the first book on Texuas wine,Texas Wines and Wineries.

Review:

Vintage Texas is a 'Gold Medal, Best of Class' cookbook. Frank Giordano has compiled a book of great culinary delight. (Paul Bonarrigo, owner and winemaker, Messina Hof Wine Cellars)

Never in my cookbook and wine book collecting have I seen such imaginative and fun-sounding recipes. The use of Texas wines in the recipes and as suggestions to drink with the dishes only enhances the value of the book. (John Rydman, President, Spec's Liquor Stores)

This cookbook provides a substantial offering of recipes that reveal some of the fascinating ways Texas winemakers, grape growers, chefs, distributors, restaurateurs, writers, adn amateur cooks combine Texas wines and food. Enjoy them all! (From the forward by Ann Criswell, Food Editor The Houston Chronicle)

This book will really enhance your enjoyment of fine Texas wines when accompanied by dishes from accomplished Texas chefs and vintners. (Bruce Auden, Chef, Restaurant BIGA San Antonio, Texas)

Savor the sublime...Texas wine and Texas cooking. (Susan Auler, Co-owner Fall Creek Vineyards)

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