
If ever you wondered how chefs pair wines with their favorite foods, you can stop wondering now. Forbes has put together a list of celebrity chefs and their favorite food and wine pairings with everything from fish tacos with a Viognier to osetra caviar and Champagne. If you don't have the patience to flip through the slideshow, here's the summary:
- Mario Batali - spicy fish tacos with a serrano chili crema with Argentinian Viognier
- Daniel Humm - nutty, cave-aged gruyere cheese with Krug or Dom Perignon Champagne
- Laurent Tourondel - spicy lamb merguez "burger" with rose from Navarra, Spain
- Michael Lomonaco - ancho chili-rubbed prime rib eye with Sonoma Syrah
- Wylie Dufresne - pigeon with smoked cocoa, black truffles and onions, served with a Barolo Chinatto
- Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson - San Daniele prosciuttowith Edi Simcic Tocai
- Anne Gingrass - Bollinger Champagne Brut with osetra caviar
- Tony Esnault - Inniskillin ice wine with a dark chocolate
- Gabriel Kreuther - seared foie gras and litchis with a raspberry-flavored beer
- Will Goldfarb - chocolate parfait with chai, mango ice cream, dairyless coconut ice cream, mini India tuiles and spray-dried coconut with Syrah

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4-27-2007 @4:42PM Chef JoAnna said... IMHO, Anne Gingrass's entry is a cop-out. Champagne and caviar always go together! Here, let me show you... (hee hee, any excuse works.)
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6-01-2007 @2:52PM Maddie said... This just reminds me of Justin Wilson's comment on wine with dinner: "People ask me what kind of wine to have with what kind of dish. I say you should always drink the kind of wine that you like, and the wine that I like is the wine I can reach…"
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