Notes from "Pairing Food with WIne"

Decalogue of Matching Food and Wine
• No white fortified wine can be served with red meat or game
• No great red wine can be served with fish, crustaceans, or mollusks
• White wines should be served before reds
• Light wines should be served before robust ones
• Fresh wines should be served before those at room temperature

• Wines should be served according to a growing alcohol level
• Match each dish to its own wine
• Serve wines in their best season
• Separate each wine with a sip of water
• No more than one great wine should be served in a meal


Food and wine must mutually exact and complete each other

General principles that are usually applied to food and wine matching are two:

CONTRAST and CONCORDANCE

An example of a a contrast in pairing would be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the saltiness of the peanut butter is a contrast to the sweetness of the jelly. An example of concordance in paring would be s'mores, all the ingredients are sweet but difference in texture between the graham cracker, the chocolate, and the gooey marshmallow is what makes them great.

Guide to Wine Examination

•Visual Examination of Wine: color, clarity, swirling, consistency, effervescence
•Olfactory Examination: nose (bouquet and aroma)
•Tasting Examination: sweetness, fruitiness, acidity, bitterness, tannins, thickness, heaviness, finish, etc,
•Over all impressions: general qualities and balance

Goals

I have the privilege of interviewing several amazing women from the 85 Broads network. One of them is Manisha Thankor, an awesome female financial adviser and passionate advocate for finanical literarcy especially among women.

In light of the preparation I have been doing for my interview with her I have been discovering some new goals and possibilities I want to create for myself.

1) Complete financial independence (this might take awhile considering the amount of debt I have accrued thanks to UCSD).

2) Standing atop the Eiffel Tower, the Duomo, and a giant and beautifully green hill in Ireland.

3) Telling a important person in my life, each day, how much I appreciate and adore them.

4) Live in a way that inspires and encourages others.

Ciao amore.

Home is where my suitcase is...

I can't help thinking, while I sit in my new favorite bar (or in the US café) sipping on my second delicious cappuccino of the day, I am beyond blessed.

I have seen so much in the last week. I have set foot in the place where hundreds of Christians faced tigers in front of an audience. I have seen the birth place of the Christian empire. And now I am walking the streets where Dante Alighieri walked over 500 years before.

This trip is the prelude to law school. This is my time to rest and appreciate the last part of my... well I guess my childhood.

I was reading today about the case about to go before the Texas Supreme Court, about a American girl that had been trafficking and will be put in jail while her 32 year trafficker will walk free.

It reminded me why I applied to law school and why I want to dedicate the next three years of my life to learning as much as I can about the US legal system in relations to such young women as the one I mentioned above.

I have 4 months in the most beautiful place on earth, I have been given an amazing opportunity to see and experience things that I know so many wish they could. I will not waste such an opportunity. I will use this time to allow a new perspective to wash over me.

I feel as though my life is just beginning. If this is just the start... well I can't wait to see what else comes my way :)

Ciao amore.

Orange Sky

Well I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
Yes I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my brother standing by
With my brother standing by
I said Brother, you know you know
It’s a long road we’ve been walking on
Brother you know it is you know it is
Such a long road we’ve been walking on

And I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my sister standing by
With my sister standing by
I said Sister, here is what I know now
Here is what I know now
Goes like this..
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, in your love, in your love

But sister you know I’m so weary
And you know sister
My hearts been broken
Sometimes, sometimes
My mind is too strong to carry on
Too strong to carry on

When I am alone
When I’ve thrown off the weight of this crazy stone
When I've lost all care for the things I own
That's when I miss you, that's when I miss you, that's when I miss you
You who are my home
You who are my home
And here is what I know now
Here is what I know now
Goes like this..
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, in your love, in your love

Well I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
Yes I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my brother and my sister standing by
With my brother and my sister standing by
With my brother and my sister standing by

21 days

Exactly three weeks and I'll be setting foot in an ancient city. Soon I'll be exploring the city of great artists, great gelato, and great vespas...

Until then... law school applications.