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Provençal Pairings: Wine with Food

The Understudy

Somehow, almost every time I’ve attended a Broadway show, I ended up seeing an understudy in a major role. My disappointment prior to the show was generally palpable. Yet, once into the first act of these shows, I completely forgot I was watching the second string and always enjoyed the production thoroughly. Now that I think about it, of course the understudy is good... would they actually put in a less-than-stellar actor? No. And I wouldn’t do that for wine, either.

My “Broadway show” this week was Chicken with Truffles and Mushrooms (you can get the recipe on Cocoa & Lavender this week). One of the leading characters of the show was the truffle from Les Pastras in Provence, and the other a 2016 Domaine Les Hauts de Mercurol Crozes Hermitage. What a show that was to be; what a duet. Until the Crozes Hermitage came down with a serious case of cork taint. But, as they say in the business, “the show must go on.” Call in the... [...]

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