What are you reading this summer?
Personally, I plan to try to get through the huge pile of The New Yorker that accumulated all winter plus brush up on a little wine education. If you have any room on your summer reading list for a couple of wonderful books about wine and food in the Northwest, add these gems. Both are by some really fantastic wine writers and are beautifully researched and produced.
Braiden Rex-Johnson brings us her seventh book - Pacific Northwest Wining & Dining: The People, Places, Food, and Drink of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. Published by John Wiley & Sons. This is a lush, handsomely photographed and thoughtfully edited book covering the Northwest and British Columbia. If you love food and wine this book makes an excellent practical guide through many wine regions as well as a lovely wine-table book. There’s food pairing and recipes throughout. Braiden is a celebrated cookbook and food and wine author, plus a really lovely person! I met her at a recent event in Walla Walla and was instantly convinced she knows her topic!
Visit Braiden’s website for lots of good information about food, wine and dining in the NorthWest!
The other find is more of a guide and it’s so well written and exhaustively researched, you’ll want to keep this on hand for reference. Steve Robert’s has published WineTrails of Washington through WineTrailsNW . This is the ultimate guidebook for exploring Washington’s wine country regions. There’s seemingly no winery that is overlooked (although with the rate of growth of wineries in Washington state, it’s hard to keep up!) Each winery is very well profiled along with maps, photos and contact info. Steve has a great website that offers lots of information about planning wine tours, wine tasting events, release parties, winemaker dinners, and more. Check it out at winetrailsnw.com
July 24th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
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