Page 11 - Palm City Spotlight - April '22

Palm City Spotlight, Page 11

BooK review

What To Drink With What You An appropriate subtitle printed on the
dust cover’s flyleaf reads as follows: “The
Eat most comprehensive guide to matching food
and drink ever compiled,” by the IACP- and
By Nils A. Shapiro James Beard Award-Winning author team
One of my grandsons, of Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page,
Seth, is a handsome young with practical advice from more than 70 of
man with a charming America’s leading experts on pairing.
personality. During a couple In an eminently readable conversational
of summer vacations while style, this is the definitive guide to pairing food
attending college – he is now with wines, as well as beers, spirits, coffee,
married and a doting father teas – even water. For example, in a chapter about wines from The result is that whatever your situation – whether
– he tended bar at a local different parts of the world, Rule No. 1 is: “Think Regionally ... you are starting with a specific food and are deciding
nightclub popular among If It Grows Together, It Goes Together ... that is, pairing a dish what wine to select, or have a bottle of wine on hand
friends his own age near his with a beverage native to the same region can take you at least and need to decide on what food to order – here is the
home in Scarsdale, N.Y., for 50 percent (and sometimes even 100 percent) of the way to the information you need at your fingertips: thousands
side income. Now he has turned that experience into the perfect pairing.” Examples: “The red sauce of pizza and pasta of recommendations accompanying the food or wine
position of sommelier at a world-famous resort hotel, with pairs beautifully with Italian red wine, especially Chianti. Tapas listings, the most highly recommended appearing in
an eye toward gaining knowledge about the hospitality and shine with a dry sherry. Sashimi is sensational with sake.” boldface type.
restaurant business that will prove valuable when he opens Those few, of course, are obvious. But in Chapters 5 and 6 Rounding out the text are pairing menus from some
his own sit-down wine café in the college town where he you will find thousands of food and beverage combinations. of America’s finest restaurants; a delightful section with
and his wife have settled down. Chapter 5 lists foods alphabetically, from Acidic (Tart) Dishes, comments by the nation’s leading beverage experts on
I thought of Seth when I happened to come across this Aioli, Almonds and Anchovies to Yogurt, Zabaglione and the wines and dishes they would want to have with them
beautiful award-winning volume. Confident that it would Zucchini Blossoms – a list so comprehensive it includes if they were stranded on a desert island, and a number
serve as a wonderful reference source for his job, I had a copy Asian, Mexican and other ethnic cuisines, as well as many of beautiful color photographs that further enhance the
shipped to him and purchased a second copy for my wife, foods you have likely never tasted, and even goes so far as to enjoyment of this truly elegant volume.
Linda, and me. When it arrived at our home it was even more include McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish Sandwich (!) – with multiple For any family that entertains guests – or simply
than I had hoped for, fully deserving of having earned such wine recommendations (sometimes also beers, teas and other enjoys the good life – owning What to Drink with What
honors as “IACP Cookbook of the Year,” “Georges Duboeuf beverages) for each and every one of the foods listed. You Eat is like having your own sommelier within reach,
Wine Book of the Year,” “Gourmand World Cookbook Then, Chapter 6 reverses the information, listing the wines full time, to add to the enjoyment of dining at home ...
Award,” “Los Angeles Times Bestseller” and “Entertainment alphabetically, with a recommended assortment of the foods or to refer to before a night out on the town. Very highly
Weekly Bestseller.” that go best with each of these wines. recommended.
fiLm review

Man Of The Year Jon Stewart show. One day, firing her. And even though she had no intention of telling

anyone else about the fact that Tom Dobbs was not actually
he speculates about running
By Nils A. Shapiro for President of the United the duly elected president, her life was in danger from a
This review may well annoy a number of the column’s States, and when he gets a desperate Delacroy management and their hired hands.
readers. If so, they would have to be rather thin-skinned surprisingly positive response The crux of the film at that point is the decision faced
considering the fact that the film being discussed was released in from his fans he announces by Dobbs: whether to take the easy step of moving
2006, and so could hardly have been intended as a commentary his serious candidacy as an forward and accept being sworn in as the next President
on—nor related specifically at all—to today’s political scene. independent and debates of the United States ... or voluntarily make a public
That is surely not my purpose here. I am simply going to against the Democratic announcement that he did not actually receive the most
describe the story line of a film that my wife and I decided incumbent President votes, since there would be no other way for the public to
to view on the Amazon Prime streaming service recently Kellogg and his challenger, learn the truth. I will leave it for you to learn his decision.
for several reasons: We had never seen it before; it stars the Republican Senator Mills. The fact that this entire story line was filmed in
late Robin Williams, whose performances we have often Despite his obvious 2006 – a former TV personality runs for president; a
enjoyed, and the title – Man of the Year – was intriguing. underdog status in the polls, voting machine company becomes involved in a political
I had no idea of the story line when we decided it would be Dobbs wins the election – to his own surprise and that of his presidential controversy; a man is put in the position of
worth watching this film, having not seen it when originally campaign manager, Jack Meckler (Christopher Walken) and having to make a moral choice, win or lose, about whether
released. And, since I am always interested in finding movies staff, including one assistant played by comic Lewis Black. or not to be honest about the results of his presidential
deserving of bringing to the attention of my column’s readers, But during the post-election celebration, and before campaign – adds an extraordinary degree of timeliness
this one seemed a likely candidate for review. he can be sworn in, Dobbs is approached by an attractive to this film.
As it turns out, there is a wholly unexpected timeliness to young woman, Eleanor Green (Laura Linney), who – after Your own reaction to it will depend in large part on the
the film’s theme that has the potential to engage the emotions first posing as an FBI agent – confides in Dobbs that political leanings you bring to the film. I will keep my
of its audience in ways that its producers and stars could never he had not actually been elected president because the own opinions to myself.
have imagined when the picture was first released 16 years ago. voting machines made by the Delacroy company, where Instead, I will simply point out the ironic fact that,
You will likely get the point when I explain the story she had worked before being fired, were faulty and had when the film was first released 16 years ago, one of the
line of producer Barry Levinson’s Man of the Year, which miscounted the votes – and that the head of the company, main reasons critics gave it mixed reviews was that they
I will describe here as succinctly as possible: James Hemmings (Jeff Goldblum) was hiding that critical saw it as unrealistic to create a character – as here, in
Robin Williams appears in the role of Tom Dobbs, who information for fear the truth would destroy his firm. Tom Dobbs – who would even consider making claim to
is the host of a popular television show–in this case, a talk Because she knew the truth, the Delacroy company was an undeserved office!
show devoted to humor and politics, similar to the former now falsely accusing her of taking drugs as the reason for

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