Page 18 - Boca Exposure - April '22

Page 18, Boca Exposure
Book Review

What To Drink With What with comments by the nation’s
leading beverage experts on the
You Eat wines and dishes they would
want to have with them if they
By Nils A. Shapiro were stranded on a desert island,
One of my grandsons, and a number of beautiful color
Seth, is a handsome young photographs that further enhance
man with a charming the enjoyment of this truly
personality. During a couple elegant volume.
of summer vacations while For any family that entertains
attending college – he is now guests – or simply enjoys the good
married and a doting father life – owning What to Drink with
– he tended bar at a local What You Eat is like having your
nightclub popular among own sommelier within reach, full
friends his own age near his time, to add to the enjoyment of
home in Scarsdale, N.Y., for dining at home ... or to refer to
side income. Now he has before a night out on the town.
turned that experience into Very highly recommended.
the position of sommelier
at a world-famous resort
hotel, with an eye toward
gaining knowledge about
the hospitality and restaurant
business that will prove
valuable when he opens his
own sit-down wine café in the
college town where he and
his wife have settled down.
I thought of Seth when Upscale Resale
I happened to come across
this beautiful award-winning volume. Confident that it Experience The Difference
would serve as a wonderful reference source for his job, I
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Those few, of course, are obvious. But in Chapters Nanci Smith, the owner, has had a fabulous store in Wellington for years
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Then, Chapter 6 reverses the information, listing the
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Rounding out the text are pairing menus from some
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