Virtual Book Tour for What to Drink with What You Eat by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page

The October 2nd - 31st "VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR" for

WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT:
The Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea — Even Water — Based on Expert Advice from America's Best Sommeliers

Please join us October 2-31, 2006, on our "Virtual Book Tour" for our brand-new book WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT, as we travel the Web to visit a different Web site or Blog every weekday during the month.

You'll wind your way through more than two dozen of the most passionate Web sites we know, and learn more about food and beverage pairing through the lenses of sites devoted to exploring the very best of everything from chocolate to Mexican cuisine.

We'll be adding stops to our Virtual Book Tour schedule-in-progress, below, as they're confirmed. Be sure to visit our own Blog in October, where you'll learn even more about these very special Web sites:

Monday, October 2, 2006
Global Host: David Lebovitz (Paris)
Accolades for DavidLebovitz.com:

DavidLebovitz.com was named one of the world's "Top 10 Food Blogs" by The New York Times Company's GourmetFood.About.com, and "Best City Blog" in the 2005 Food Blog Awards. The former Chez Panisse pastry chef also provides the most delightful chocolate lover's tour of Paris imaginable!

Monday, October 2, 2006
U.S. Host: Charlie Suisman (New York City)
Accolades for ManhattanUsersGuide.com:

MUG has been praised by many, including the NY Post ("the best insider's guide...very smart, opinionated and comprehensive....A must-have"), WABC-TV ("very much like Manhattan itself in that it is brimming with exciting people, places, and things in a relatively small space"), and us.

Monday, October 2 - Friday, October 6, 2006
U.S. Host: David Nelson (Steamboat Springs, Colorado)
Accolades for Chef2Chef.net:

With an astounding 750,000+ pages of online content, you will not run out of educational and informational material any time soon on Chef2Chef.net — one of the most popular Web sites for professional chefs.

About.com is one of the "Top 100" most popular sites on the Web, and Brett Moore is a former professional chef who holds degrees from both NECI (restaurant management) and the U of Nebraska (wildlife biology).

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Host: Meg Hourihan
Accolades for Meg Hourihan and megnut.com:

Modest Meg describes her Blog thusly: "Food enthusiast Meg Hourihan follows her culinary curiosities on megnut.com. Daily updates include links to great food features on the web, reviews of lectures, books, and meals, and the occasional recipe."

Co-founder of PyraLabs (i.e. Blogger), Meg Hourihan has been called a "Young Innovator Who Will Create the Future" by MIT's Technology Review and one of the "People of the Year" in PC Magazine. (Wow!)

The title of Ayun Halliday’s wickedly funny and delicious food blog is also the title of her most recent self-mocking memoir: Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste.

Friday, October 6, 2006
Host: Amy McDaniel
Accolades for mexicanfood.bellaonline.com

Amy McDaniel, a candidate for a master's degree in creative nonfiction at The New School, writes about Mexican food for BellaOnline, one of the "Top 500" most popular sites on the Web. Amy writes: "Just as Karen and Andrew think beyond wine when it comes to drinks with food, at mexicanfood.bellaonline.com I think beyond beer with tacos. At this stop on the tour, find a creative dinner party menu with beverage pairings inspired by What to Drink with What You Eat."

Dave McIntyre is the restaurant critic and drinks columnist for DC magazine. His food and wine writings have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Wine Enthusiast, and the Washington Post. He believes that life is too short to be scared of wine, and pokes holes in conventional wisdom, myths and misconceptions about wine in his online newsletter, Dave McIntyre's WineLine.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Host: Adam Roberts
Accolades for amateurgourmet.com:

In addition to being named "Best Food Blog: Humor" at the 2004 Food Blog Awards, Amateur Gourmet Adam Roberts has been praised in the pages of the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Hosts: Chris McBride & Jennifer McBride
Accolades for www.savorytidbits.com

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Host: Amy Sherman
Accolades for cookingwithamy.com

Amy Sherman's Blog was named one of the "Best Food Blogs" by both Forbes and The Guardian.

Famous for blogging in bed (see the 8/24/06 New York Times), Dr. Enoch Choi mostly writes about medicine, but also claims the title of "the 22nd most popular wine blogger."

Robert Hess explores the “classic art of mixology." As his impressive bio states, he uses his culinary training "as a canvas, viewing cocktails as a cuisine with the same artistic flavor potentials as that of any French chef.”

Monday, October 16, 2006
Host: IACP Blog Team
Accolades for the IACP Global News Blog

The International Association of Culinary Professionals' 4,000 members comprise over 35 countries and a "Who's Who" of the world of food. Blog editors include Ruth Alegria, Scott Givot, Elena Hernandez, Kate McGhie and Yukari Pratt.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Host: Sally Bernstein
Accolades for sallys-place.com

Headed by culinary Web pioneer Sally Bernstein since 1994, Sally’s Place is a virtual goldmine of info on restaurants, chefs, recipes, books, products, cooking schools, ethnic cuisines, travel, lodging, and more.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Host: Joe Dressner
Accolades for joedressner.com:

One of the "Seven Best Wine Blogs."
—Food & Wine magazine

Derrick Schneider and his Blog have been featured in The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, and USA Today. His wife Melissa provides the site's beautiful photography.

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Hosts: Hillel and Debbie Cooperman
Accolades for tastingmenu.com

"The first food blogger nominated for a prestigious James Beard Foundation journalism award."
—The Washington Post

Friday, October 20, 2006
Host: Cheri Sicard
Accolades for fabulousfoods.com

This site is fabulous indeed — not to mention popular: It's one of the most highly-trafficked general food sites on the Web. From cooking tips to book reviews to guest chef tutorials, if it’s fabulous — you’ll find it here.

Paul Clarke writes regularly about spirits and cocktails for Imbibe magazine. He also contributed a chapter on the history of the gimlet to the first edition of Mixologist: The Journal of the American Cocktail.

Cited by Epicurious.com as an "artfully written" "Food Web Site We Love," Leite's Culinaria won the 2006 James Beard Award for Best Internet Food Web site, a 2005 World Food Media Award, and so many others that you can find a whole page of 'em here.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Host: John Foley
Accolades for allbusiness.com:

John Foley has worked virtually every position there is in the restaurant business. AllBusiness.com has won critical acclaim from The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Business 2.0, and other publications.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Host: Betsy Block
Accolades for mamacooks.com:

Not only can this mama cook, she can really write. In addition to her Blog, Betsy Block writes for National Public Radio, not to mention Gourmet, Epicurious.com, Boston Globe, Boston magazine, and elsewhere.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Host: Paul McCann
Accolades for KIPlog.com

"Top 10 Food Blog."
—The New York Times Company's GourmetFood.About.com

Monday, October 30, 2006
Hosts: Jack Everitt & Joanne White
Accolades for forkandbottle.com

Jack & Joanne have lovingly compiled more than 300 pages on their site, providing an insider's guide to eating, drinking and living, while exploring artisan food, wine, cheese and much more!

"Best Blog Covering Wine, Beer or Spirits."
—2005 Food Blog Award category nominee

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Hosts: Chef James T. Ehler
Accolades for foodreference.com

The enormously popular FoodReference.com is one of the "Top 15,000" most highly-trafficked sites on the Web. Its mastermind is chef James T. Ehler who serves as webmaster, writer, editor and publisher.

Dates TBD

These sites have also agreed to participate in our upcoming Global "Virtual Book Tour," and we're in the process of adding them to that schedule as we speak! (If you have a Web site located outside the United States and would like to participate, please contact Julia at CookbookRave@aol.com to get on the schedule.)

TBD
Host: Ron Hogan
Accolades for beatrice.com

Beatrice was one of the very first Web sites devoted to books and writers, attracting thousands of visitors daily with many special features designed to introduce them to writers worth reading.

Produced by British chef Jeremy Emmerson (who lives and works in Chicago), GlobalChefs.com has amassed more than 800 pages of useful information for the thousands of chefs who are devoted readers of the site.

WHAT TO DRINK WITH WHAT YOU EAT

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