Coming Soon:
THE FLAVOR BIBLE
The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity,
Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
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THE FLAVOR BIBLE
August 1, 2008
Dear Friends,
We hope this email finds you enjoying your summer.
Frederick Nietzsche wrote, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Sheesh...are we ever grateful for the seemingly few but memorable days (including our time in Paris over the extended Fourth of July weekend, when we spoke at the historic Gastronomy by the Seine conference on "Flavors of Tomorrow") this past year when we didn't feel a need to remind ourselves of that, as we questioned whether we were getting any stronger or just downward-spiraling in the other direction....Between the pressures of writing a weekly column and concluding eight years of research and writing to finish our next book, it's been a challenging year.
So we couldn't be more excited to let you know that our latest labor of love THE FLAVOR BIBLE: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs (Little, Brown; 380 pages; $35) has finally left the printer, and is right this minute on a proverbial "slow boat" making its way to the United States. For any of you who enjoyed our books CULINARY ARTISTRY (classic flavor pairings) or WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT (food and drink pairings), THE FLAVOR BIBLE is an indispensable companion guide to modern flavor pairings. It's now available for pre-order on Amazon.com, BN.com, eCookbooks.com, and other favorite online stores, and is due to hit bricks-and-mortar bookstore shelves in the coming weeks leading up to its official publication date of September 16th.
Anyone who's familiar with the impossible odds every author faces — with hundreds of thousands of books published every year, all clamoring for the same limited "ink and air" — knows that our work on THE FLAVOR BIBLE is actually just getting started. Now, we begin the really hard work of letting people know it exists. We welcome and deeply appreciate your help in spreading the good word!
Wolfgang
Puck and
Karen Page
"Puckish humor: THE hottest restaurant in Paris right now is Cameleon. The night before the Gastronomy by the Seine conference, Wolfgang Puck ran into Gael Greene, Betsy Bernardaud and cookbook authors Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page, at Jean-Paul Arabian's eatery. Puck declared its foie de veau the best he'd tasted in 30 years. The California superchef also shared the secret behind one of the most coveted items at the upcoming West Coast Citymeals-on-Wheels benefit, a Puck-prepared dinner with LAPD Chief Bill Bratton and wife Rikki Klieman — 'no traffic tickets for a year,' he joked."
—Richard Johnson, "Page Six," New York Post (July 9, 2008)
  July 9, 2008
Cue Napa for Its Close-Up
by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg
The phrase "bottle shock" refers to a temporary condition that afflicts wine, often immediately after bottling or during transport, and damages its flavor. In the movie "Bottle Shock," which opens Aug. 6, it's the wine industry that is shaken up, and the condition is anything but temporary.
The bottle at the center of the drama, loosely based on the 1976 "Judgment of Paris" blind-tasting competition, is the 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay that bested five other white wines from California and four from France. The event put California wines on the map and accelerated the industry's globalization.
The movie has a star-studded cast headed by the great Alan Rickman as Steven Spurrier, a struggling British wine retailer in Paris who organized the tasting as a PR stunt, and Bill Pullman as winemaker Jim Barrett, who also was struggling after buying Chateau Montelena in 1972.
Filmed at several wineries including Chateau Montelena, Buena Vista and Kunde, "Bottle Shock" celebrates the beauty of the business from a behind-the-scenes perspective in the same way 2004's "Sideways" captured amateurs' enthusiasm for wine. And just as "Sideways" put Santa Barbara County on the map as a winemaking region, the panoramic helicopter shots of rolling vineyards in "Bottle Shock" no doubt will provide a further boon to Napa tourism and could well make Chateau Montelena a household name...
To read the rest, click through to The Washington Post's Web site here.
Looking for Drink Tips for Summer Grilling?
 
Host Leonard Lopate; Karen Page at WNYC
"Later today on 'Please Explain' we'll be talking about barbecuing and grilling, but before we do we thought it would be great to bring in an expert on what to drink with those summer foods. And that's why Karen Page is here: She's a wine columnist at The Washington Post and with her husband Andrew Dornenburg she is the James Beard Award-winning author of WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT."
—Leonard Lopate, host, "The Leonard Lopate Show," WNYC Radio (NPR)
(July 18, 2008)
It's always a pleasure to speak with Leonard, but it's a great privilege, too — as one of America's best radio interviewers, Leonard Lopate regularly has his pick of a Who's Who of interviewees, as suggested by this slideshow of informal snapshots of recent guests on the show, who have also included Madeleine Albright, President Jimmy Carter, John Cusack, Errol Morris, Yoko Ono, Nancy Pelosi, and (all at once!) chefs David Bouley, David Waltuck and Alice Waters.
Our Upcoming Schedule
 
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 6 pm — Join us as we discuss WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT over a very special five-course dinner with wine pairings at the restaurant of celebrated chef Stephanie Pearl Kimmel: Marche in Eugene, Oregon. $100/person includes dinner, wine, a signed copy of WHAT TO DRINK, and a contribution to the Jane Eyre McDonald Scholarship Fund at the Eugene Hearing & Speech Center. Web: www.marcherestaurant.com
Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 11:15 am ET — Join us as we discuss WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT with "Food Talk" host Mike Colameco on WOR Radio in New York City. Web: www.wor710.com.
Monday, September 15, 2008 — Karen is again among the array of actresses, anchors and authors (who this year will also include Kathleen Chalfant, Carol Higgins Clark, Jill Eikenberry, and Gael Greene) to be featured as a "Celebrity Sous Chef" at the 5th annual “A Second Helping of Life," a tasting event featuring some of New York's best women chefs (including Amy Scherber, Rebecca Charles and Anita Lo) to benefit SHARE: Self-Help for Women with Breast or Ovarian Cancer. The event will be held in New York City. Web: www.sharecancersupport.com
Thursday, September 18, 2008 — Karen will be a featured Northwestern alumna panelist — along with novelist Loraine Despres and filmmaker Gayla Kretsch — on the subject of "Putting Creativity to Work" at Northwestern University's Council of 100 event in Chicago. Web: www.alumni.northwestern.edu/c100
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 6:30 pm — Karen and Andrew will be hosted by Barbara-Jo's Books to Cooks at the Salt Cellar in Vancouver to discuss their new book THE FLAVOR BIBLE. Web: www.bookstocooks.com
Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 6 pm — Karen and Andrew will be hosted for a dinner event around THE FLAVOR BIBLE hosted by Kim Ricketts Book Events and prepared by award-winning chef Matthew Dillon at The Corson Building in Seattle. Web: www.kimricketts.com
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 6:30 pm — Karen and Andrew will discuss and sign copies of THE FLAVOR BIBLE at a multiple-course dinner with wines held in the Fourth Estate restaurant at the National Press Club (529 14th Street, NW; 13th Floor) in Washington, DC. Web: npc.press.org/events/bookevents.cfm
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 5:30 - 8:30 pm — Karen and Andrew will sign copies of THE FLAVOR BIBLE and WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT at the National Press Club Book Fair (529 14th Street, NW; 13th Floor) in Washington, DC. (To be confirmed.) Web: npc.press.org/events/bookevents.cfm
Note: Our book tour planning is just beginning, and we intend to visit a few other cities across North America. Invitations to speak or teach in your city may be forwarded to AndriaChin@aol.com, or of course to us directly at DornenburgPage@aol.com.
CULINARY ARTISTRY:
One of the "Top 10" of the Past 25 Years
"Cookbook Store cookin' after 25 years. For 25 years, dozens of food celebs have come to Toronto's The Cookbook Store to shill their wares, and manager Alison Fryer and her sidekick Jennifer Grange have seen it all....Because Fryer and Grange personally source — and read — many of the 6,000-odd titles they have in stock at any one time, The Cookbook Store is a unique resource....Top 10 Cookbooks: Alison Fryer and Jennifer Grange pick their top 10 must-haves: CULINARY ARTISTRY by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page. Gives you an insight into how chefs think."
—Julia Aitken, Toronto Star (June 16, 2008)
THE LAST WORD: We hope to have the pleasure of connecting with you this fall during our book tour for THE FLAVOR BIBLE. Thank you for letting us know about opportunities to introduce the book to flavor-loving readers near you. You can keep an eye on (and make suggestions for!) our book-tour-in-progress on the News & Events page of our Web site here.
Delicious wishes,
Andrew & Karen
Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page
527 Third Ave. Suite 130
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 642-5870
Email: DornenburgPage@aol.com
Web: www.becomingachef.com
Blog: www.becomingachef.com/blog.dwt.php |
