de la Casa - Vietnamese food and wine pairing: With recommendations for 100 Vietnamese popular dishes

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The Author ................................................................................... 6
Introduction to Food and Wine pairing....................................... 7
The taste of wine ......................................................................... 8
But, what is taste?.................................................................... 8
Sight ......................................................................................... 9
Smell....................................................................................... 10
Taste ....................................................................................... 11
The taste of Food ....................................................................... 13
Food and wine pairing ............................................................... 15
Pairing Vietnamese food with wine ........................................... 17
Introduction ............................................................................... 18
Vietnamese food........................................................................ 19
Salads - Starters ......................................................................... 20
Rice & Soups .............................................................................. 39
Fish & Seafood ........................................................................... 65
Meat & Poultry ........................................................................... 91
List of dishes Vietnamese names............................................. 148
List of dishes English names..................................................... 153
Dishes by grape type ................................................................ 158
SPARKLING AND ROSE.......................................................... 159
WHITE WINE GRAPES ........................................................... 160
RED AND FORTIFIED ............................................................. 167
Map of Vietnam ....................................................................... 173
Acknowledgements .................................................................. 175

Welcome to Pairing wine with Vietnamese food, the ultimateguide for those who want to make the most of drinking winewith Vietnamese food!

In this book you will find the basics about wine and food pairing, to then move into the particulars of the worldwide awarded Vietnamese cuisine.

After having lived several years in Vietnam, the author, still living in Ho Chi Minh City, and a member of the Society of WineEducators, will take you through the particulars of the most popular Vietnamese dishes and which wines will not only gowell with them, but even enhance the experience of both eating the dish and enjoying wine.

Vietnamese food is very diverse, as you can imagine considering that Vietnam is the 13th most populated country in the world,and over 1650km in length, benefiting from seaside, different climates and flat as well mountainous terrain.

This book covers many of the most popular dishes from North, South and Middle of Vietnam, and how can they be better paired with different types and styles of wine.

The first two chapters cover the basics of food and wine, as well as a fast course on pairing food and wine: this will not make an expert, but will give those readers wanting to learn more, the basic tools to pair food, however the work has been done for you already!

The core of the book covers 100 of the most popular Vietnamese dishes divided in four groups: salads and starters,rice and soups, fish and seafood and meat and poultry

The book does not recommend wine brands, but the likelygrapes and/or grapes and regions which will pair better with the food: a dish pairing may be a Marlborough (New Zealand) Chardonnay rather than a Villa Maria. The reason for this is thatdifferent brands are available in different countries, hence ismore practical for everyone to match food with grapes andstyles rather than brands.

There are regional variations when preparing Vietnamese food,but in most of the cases the wines selected dont change, unless otherwise stated.

-The first index in alphabetical order for the dishes inVietnamese names, useful if you are in a restaurant and the menu is in Vietnamese.
-A second index with the name of the dishes in English.
-You have the grape, here are the matching dishes.