I will also be providing the weekly wine pairing for the recipes edited by Kristina on Design*Sponge. The In-the-Kitchen-With column appears every Friday at noon, and features the recipes of design*sponge readers’ favorite designers. Design*Sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. Launched in August of 2004, Design*Sponge features store and product reviews, sale and contest announcements, new designer profiles, trend forecasting and store/studio tours.
This week’s recipe is provided Matt Armendariz. Matt is is an art director, graphic designer and photographer who spent the past 17 years in the specialty food business before recently branching out into food photography. Please be sure to visit mattarmendariz.com to view his work. His work is beautiful and I couldn’t be more grateful to Kristina and Grace for including my pairings with recipes from people like Matt.
Matt’s recipe is Sauteed Beet Greens with Sun Dried Tomatoes & Pancetta. The suggested wine pairing is the Gulfi Carjacanti, 2004.
If I can make a suggestion about your wine-pairing column: Rather than provide a simple tasting note, why not give your thoughts about why you chose that wine. Did it bring out something in the wine? Did it bring out something in the dish? You could also tailor your tasting note to explain how it tastes when going up against the dish.
Thanks Derrick, Great feedback, I think I have done that for many of the others in the queue — will make sure I do so going forward.
Love your site — great stuff,
Tom