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    Dare to Pair: The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate & Wine Pairing
    Dare to Pair: The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate & Wine Pairing
    Dare to Pair: The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate & Wine Pairing
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    Dare to Pair: The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate & Wine Pairing

    By Julie Nygard

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    "Dare to Pair" is the bible of chocolate and wine pairing. It contains over 40 wines with chocolate pairings each, information on where the grapes are grown, flavor profiles, taste chocolate and wine properly, how to select the proper glass for wines, websites and references for hosting your own chocolate and wine events, dozens of recipes and much more. "Dare to Pair" is the perfect gift for anyone wishing to discover the secrets to pairing chocolate and wine. Author Julie Pech has taught chocolate and wine pairing classes for more than eight years, owns her own chocolate shop, has traveled internationally on cruise ships as a guest lecturer speaking on chocolate and is also the author of "The Chocolate Therapist: A User's Guide to the Extraordinary Health Benefits of Chocolate."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJulie Nygard
    Release dateDec 18, 2014
    ISBN9781310245763
    Dare to Pair: The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate & Wine Pairing

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      Dare to Pair - Julie Nygard

      Dare to Pair

      The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate and Wine Pairing

      Another delicious book by

      Julie Pech

      Adapted from the author’s book,

      The Chocolate Therapist: A User’s Guide to the Extraordinary Health Benefits of Chocolate

      Copyright 2014 by Julie Pech, The Chocolate Therapist, Inc.

      Littleton, CO 80123, USA.

      www.thechocolatetherapist.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

      Smashwords Edition

      Licensing Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal use and enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or if it was not purchased for your use only, please visit Smashwords.com and purchase a copy for yourself. Thank you for respecting this author’s work.

      E-Book by e-book-design.com.

      Dedication

      For Britt and Blake. My life is so much sweeter because you’re in it.

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      How it All Got Started

      Chocolate and Wine Basics

      Proper Chocolate Consumption

      Selecting the Proper Wine Glass

      Red Wine and Chocolate Pairings

      White Wine and Chocolate Pairings

      Appendix A: Quick Reference Guide

      Appendix B: Pairing Summary

      Appendix C: How to Microwave Chocolate

      Appendix D: Recipes

      References

      About the Author

      Acknowledgments

      Thank you to the thousands of you who have attended my classes and have been the guinea-pigs, testing wine after wine, chocolate after chocolate—it was a lot of work, but you hung in there. Thank you Erik & Rebekah, who helped bring the pairing process to a whole new level. Thank you to my extraordinary staff at The Chocolate Therapist and to Erin, for managing the shop so I could finish this book. Thank you Mary Carol, chocolatier-extraordinaire. And thank you Maryann, my brilliant and peaceful graphic artist, who really did everything else.

      We’ve toasted abroad, we’ve toasted at home,

      The chocolate enticing, never alone.

      And along the journey, we discovered THE rule,

      The precious secret of Wine Pairing School

      If you ever discover a marginal pair,

      Just keep drinking, my friend

      And soon you won’t care.

      How It All Got Started

      I know what you’re thinking: chocolate and wine pairing is an interesting concept to say the least. When I first heard about it over a decade ago, my initial reaction was why? followed shortly after by why not? Fortunately, the job of learning about it came into my life out of sheer necessity. The work started shortly after the release of my book The Chocolate Therapist. A series of serendipitous events led to an opportunity to travel on cruise ships, giving lectures about chocolate. In the process of booking the first cruise, I was asked for the titles of all my lectures to confirm my reservation. This request surprised me because I’d only planned on lecturing about the health benefits of chocolate. But cruise ship policy calls for a series of lectures on the same topic, not the same topic five times. (I thought I’d share this fact with you in case you’re thinking about presenting a topic.)

      To keep things simple and fun, I quickly came up with a series of lectures: Chocolate and Wine Pairing, Chocolate and Tea Pairing, International Chocolates, How to Throw a Chocolate Party, and, my original lecture, The Extraordinary Health Benefits of Chocolate. I sent the list and secured my spot, a little later realizing that the only topic I knew anything about was the health benefits of chocolate. But I decided not to let a complete lack of knowing what I was doing stand in the way. Cruising to Bermuda and the Eastern Caribbean was on the line, so I’d have to figure it out.

      I needed some practice fast. A bottle of wine and a box of chocolates seemed like a good place to start, and as I was polishing off my fourth pairing, it occurred to me that I might fare better doing the research with a group. If I did everything myself, it seemed unlikely that I’d fit into any of my clothes by the time the cruise date arrived. I also wanted to keep on track with the principle I was teaching in my lecture on the health benefits of

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