Cathy Huyghe  

Is it weird to drink wine — made from grape juice, of course — with a recipe that already features grapes?

For today’s dish and beverage pairing, why not step into something a little bit unfamiliar?

As a beverage pairing for today’s dumplings, try a few drinks that pack a similar punch one sip at a time.

When you’re thinking about what to drink with this tart recipe, consider two factors: your choice of filling, and the time of day you serve it.

I am on vacation this week with my family in rural Pennsylvania, so I was especially close to fresh-grown produce when it came time to shop for ingredients for Ming Tsai’s chicken wings.

I would love a chardonnay with this dish!

The aroma goes from mild and sweet to charred and ashen. The sound of eating them goes from crisp-crunch to al dente.

It’s one thing to attend a wine tasting...It’s another thing to work at a wine tasting.

Whether you’ve cruised the supermarket aisles lately, stopped by a farm stand, or have the pleasure of living near a berry patch, you’re well aware that we are smack in the middle of strawberry season — finally!

What to drink with these Maple-Pecan Squares depends, at least a little, on what time of day you eat them.

This week, two Kitchen Crew members, Rebecca Miller and Beth O’Brien, are trying out Lidia Bastianich’s recipe for Pesto Alla Anna, and the results will be posted here on the WGBH Foodie Blog this Saturday morning.

Few foods say summer like corn on the cob. And few drinks go along with corn on  the cob — or summer! — like lemonade.

The reason Lidia recommends Morellino “La Mozza” in today’s Daily Dish is the same reason for her from-the-pantry supper: both are simple solutions to problems that could easily become bigger than they need to be.

There are certain wines you immediately think of when you think of beef.

This is a complex dish, with the meatiness of the mushrooms and the tart citrus of the blood oranges playing off each other. But “complex,” at least when it comes to a beverage pairing, means opportunity!

It isn’t that fish is flavorless – hardly! – but what surrounds  the fish often delivers the bigger taste impression.

When deciding what to drink with these scallion pancakes, consider the wide variety of liquids already in the recipe: sambal (a chili-based sauce), rice wine vinegar, Asian sesame oil, extra virgin olive oil, either grapeseed or canola oil, and of course, good old hot water.

Western Massachusetts has its share of attractions, both natural and cultural. A fair bit of the cultural attractions are facilitated by an organization called Museums10, a consortium of galleries and museums ranging from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art to the Smith College Museum of Art.

Given the choice between an 11% abv (alcohol-by-volume) wine or one that’s 15.5%, I’m much more likely to go for the one with less alcohol. It’s not that I’m a lightweight – I can handle the alcohol – but more often, it has to do with the sweetness of a non-dessert wine that such high levels of alcohol.

Two surprises of the garden variety came in rapid succession last Wednesday at an event sponsored by the Food Literacy Project at Harvard.

No. 9 Park restaurant on Beacon Hill invited ladies of its own last week with its Ladies Who Lunch series, welcoming Swanee Hunt, former US ambassador to Austria.