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The Arts

Book Review: “What to Drink with What You Eat”

By Nils A. Shapiro our emphasis on dining at home
I first reviewed this book half a more often over the past two
dozen years ago, but now is a good years because of the pandemic
time to remind you about it again for into a lot more fun, thanks to this
a reason I will explain later in this book: When we see a wine in Ed
column. Wolfarth’s “Grape Expectations”
One of my grandsons, Seth, is a column in Boca Club News that
handsome young man with a charming interests us, we pick up a bottle
personality. During a couple of summer and generally pair it with a food
vacations while attending college—he is now married and a recommendation from the book.
doting father—he tended bar at a local night club popular Or, if Linda decides to whip up
among friends his own age near his home in Scarsdale, New a recipe from one of the Broken
York, for side income. Now he has turned that experience into Sound Club Executive Chef’s
the position of sommelier at a world-famous resort hotel, with monthly columns in these pages, we turn to the book for a mentions a preferred label and vintage. I figured it was time
an eye toward gaining knowledge about the hospitality and wine suggestion and see if Ed Wolfarth’s column that month to share the fun with friends...and that includes you!
restaurant business that will prove valuable when he opens
his own sit-down wine café in the college town where he and
I thought of Seth when I happened to come across this First Hospital Based Focused
his wife have settled down.

beautiful award-winning volume. Confident that it would
shipped to him and purchased a second copy for my wife, Ultrasound Incisionless Procedure
serve as a wonderful reference source for his job, I had a copy

Linda, and me. When it arrived at our home it was even more
honors as “IACP Cookbook of the Year,” “Georges Duboeuf For Parkinson’s & Essential Tremors
than I had hoped for, fully deserving of having earned such
Wine Book of the Year,” “Gourmand World Cookbook Award,”
“Los Angeles Times Bestseller” and “Entertainment Weekly In The Region Takes Place
Bestseller.”
An appropriate sub-title printed on the dust cover’s flyleaf
food and drink ever compiled,” by the IACP- and James Beard At Delray Medical Center
reads as follows: “The most comprehensive guide to matching
Award-Winning author team of Andrew Dornenburg and
Karen Page, with practical advice from more than seventy of Dr. Lloyd Zucker, Neurosurgeon of neurosurgery for Delray Medical Center. “We are at
America’s leading experts on pairing. And Medical Director Of Neurosurgery, an exciting time in medicine when it comes to treating
In an eminently readable conversational style, this is Completes First Case neuro-disorders, and this technology is a game changer
the definitive guide to pairing food with wines, as well as for patients who have suffered from Parkinson’s disease.”
beers, spirits, coffee, teas—even water. For example, in a Delray Medical Center The MR-guided focused ultrasound combines two
chapter about wines from different parts of the world, Rule #1 is now the first hospital technologies, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which
is: “Think Regionally...If It Grows Together, It Goes Together... in the region to treat a pinpoints the exact location in the brain responsible for
that is, pairing a dish with a beverage native to the same region patient with the new MR- the tremor, and ultrasound, which precisely delivers over
can take you at least 50 percent (and sometimes even 100 guided focused ultrasound 1,000 highly focused beams of acoustic energy at that
percent) of the way to the perfect pairing.” Examples: “The by INSIGHTEC™. This exact location without damaging any surrounding brain
red sauce of pizza and pasta pairs beautifully with Italian red technology is a scalpel- tissue.
wine, especially Chianti. Tapas shine with a dry sherry. Sashimi free treatment for essential Some of the benefits to this technology include:
is sensational with sake.” tremor and medication- • No surgical incisions resulting in reduced risk of
Those few, of course, are obvious. But in chapters 5 and 6 refractory tremor - infection.
you will find thousands of food and beverage combinations. dominant Parkinson’s • Quicker recovery time with no surgical incision,
Chapter 5 lists foods alphabetically, from Acidic (Tart) Dishes, disease. This device uses allowing a return to daily activities within days.
Aioli, Almonds and Anchovies to Yogurt, Zabaglione and sound wave energy to treat • Performed as an outpatient procedure – most patients
Zucchini Blossoms—a list so comprehensive it includes brain tissue as the source go home within 23 hours.
Asian, Mexican and other ethnic cuisines, as well as many of the tremor and there • Immediate and significant reduction in hand tremors.
foods you have likely never tasted, and even goes so far as to is no surgical incision or • Treatment has minimum side effects.
include McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish Sandwich (!)—with multiple anesthesia necessary. Delray Medical Center has the advanced technology
wine recommendations (sometimes also beers, teas and other “I am honored to be Lloyd Zucker, M.D., FAANS; and services to help with any of your neurological issues.
beverages) for each and every one of the foods listed. able to not only treat the Chair of Surgery and Medical As a member of the Advanced Neuroscience Network,
Then, Chapter 6 reverses the information, listing the wines first patient at Delray Director of Neurosurgery at an integrated delivery system of medical professionals
alphabetically, with a recommended assortment of the foods Medical Center with Delray Medical Center and hospitals focused on offering a full continuum of
that go best with each of these wines. this new groundbreaking neurological care throughout South Florida, we focus on
The result is that whatever your situation—whether you procedure, but the first in any hospital in the region. We everything from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and
are starting with a specific food and are deciding what wine are now able to give those who suffer from this disease a rehabilitation. For more information about our services go
to select, or have a bottle of wine on hand and need to decide chance to get back to living their lives, and pursuing their to our website at www.delraymedicalctr.com or call (561)
on what food to order—here is the information you need at daily activities,” said Dr. Lloyd Zucker, medical director 498-4440.
your fingertips.
Of course, not everyone agrees with the basic concept
of “pairing.” I have been told that our own Boca Club News
wine columnist, Ed Wolfarth, is more inclined to stick with
wines that are to his taste, regardless of what any “pairing”
experts may suggest in a given situation. But there are enough
selections in this book’s recommendations that accompany
each food or wine listing (the most highly recommended
appearing in bold face type) that even Ed might agree that this
definitive guide can prove helpful for many people—and I can
assure you that it is fun to peruse and use!
Rounding out the text are Pairing Menus from some
of America’s finest restaurants; a delightful section with
comments by the nation’s leading beverage experts on the
wines and dishes they would want to have with them if they
were stranded on a desert island, and a number of beautiful
color photographs that further enhance the enjoyment of this
truly elegant volume.
For any family that entertains guests—or simply enjoys
the good life—owning “What to Drink with What You Eat”
is like having your own sommelier within reach, full time, to
add to the enjoyment of dining at home...or to refer to before
a night out on the town. Very highly recommended. Focused Ultrasound Equipment from Insightec
So why did I decide to bring this book to your attention
again? While my wife, Linda, and I have made good use of this Paid Advertisement
book’s suggestions since I first discovered it, we have turned