G-Day Everyone
I am woundering if you could send me recipes that you use wine in. I am writing a Wine Recipe book and love to hear how you could wine from around the world different methods etc. I am from Austraila where we have thousands of different wines and regions so if you want to know about wine in Austraila just write back to me and I'll be glad to help. Well hope the recipes flood in
Cheers
Aaron

So many classics - Coq au Vin, Beouf Bourguignon, Tournedoes Bordelaise - so many non-classic ordinary dishes - red gravy, poached fish, chicken with peppers, omelets - hell, there's not much I don't cook with wine.

So many recipes - they're all over the place, you don't need me (or anybody else) to write them down again, do you? You can just collect them all yourself from the thousands of recipe sites on the web.

I guess that calls for the question - does anybody need them written down again?

In my case, I never think, "I want to cook a dish that has wine in it." I am assuming you do think this (and quite often) since you want to compile such recipes.

Is this true? I guess the question I am asking is how will you sell your book to me (or others)? What is there about a book of recipes using wine that would make it attractive? What will tie the book together other than wine as an ingredient?

Hi Mate
The reason I want actullay recipes is that cooking with wine is more then throwing wine into any dish yes any person can do that. I want to know one wine that you love to use when making a dish and at what stage you add the wine to that recipe. As different wines have different reactions for different ingredients and can produce way different taste and aromas from different wines. The recipes will simple be printed for my New customers and old ones just to help them simple help them cook with there wine and enjoy it.
The recipes want be marketed or made into book format to be sold. It is just to help lovers of wine to enjoy it more as in Austraila we have close to 13,000 different wines + all the great wines from around the world.
Thankyou for your reply Brom
Cheers
Aaron

Aron,

Let me say first that if you intend to be a writer, you have to pay more attention to your writing. Here you are discussing and describing your plans to write and sell a book, yet you pay no attention to spelling, punctuation, syntax or pretty much any other rules of composition. The two examples of your writing that you have provided to us do not bode well for a reader's enjoyment of your work.

You don't even spell Australia correctly, "mate".

At any rate, here is a tip about cooking with wine that folks reading these posts may not know.

When reducing a wine, always reduce at a low heat. Go ahead, take 20-30 minutes to reduce a cup of wine to a sauce consistency. The difference between a slowly heated reduction and one that is boiled down are remarkable. Much more of the wine's character and fruit are retained.

an I thunk I speaked pooly!

Aron, I wish you well with your book ~ welcome to the forum.


Certainly, if one intends to be an author, a good knowledge of spelling and grammar is definitely useful, but there are editors, and there is other support available.

Sometimes people have expertise that should be passed on via books, but their knowledge of English may be considered a little 'faulty'. That should not deter them, if they wish to try.

There are people on this site of various educational backgrounds and of various nationalities ~ most of us make errors of one kind or another ~ sometimes they are just typos. We do not normally pick people up on their spelling, etc, though, I appreciate, Brom, that your comments were 'constructive criticism'.

And Brom, thanks for the tip on reducing wine.

Jon:
Please try to be more positive & welcoming to new members. Thank you.

PDM,

You say "Sometimes people have expertise that should be passed on via books, but their knowledge of English may be considered a little 'faulty'. That should not deter them, if they wish to try."

I have to disagree.

First let me say that this is not applicable in this case, where the ostensible writer claims no expertise, but rather seeks the expertise of others - Aron's only claimed expertise is in writing "I am writing a Wine recipe book".

How is it that a lack of skill or ability in any field shouldn't deter one from assaying in that field?

When did actually learning how to conduct oneself in any profession become unnecessary as a prerequisite to practice in that profession?

Why should we encourage people to waste their time (and the time of others) at a task or occupation that they are plainly unsuited to perform?

In this instance, we have a person allegedly aspiring to be a writer who cannot be bothered to pay attention to what he is writing. (Not to mention that I think Aron/Aaron is a bit of a story-teller - Austraila? Not likely "mate".)

"The recipes will simple be printed for my New customers and old ones just to help them simple help them cook with there wine and enjoy it."

Oh yeah. An editor will clear that up in a snap.

Bravo!!

I will try to be more "positive" with this reply.


Brom you are POSITIVELY correct in your response, opinion, and assessment of this matter!!

Aron 86:

Please don't be discouraged by Brom's ignorance. Not all members of this board are as rude. Regarding your spelling errors...don't kill yourself over it. This BB has no spell check and your word processing program does, so you'll be bang on come book time. And as PDM says...that's what editors are for.

I'm a chef and have written a cookbook that was published. I'm no writer, but having a respectable depth of knowledge on any topic, along with the ability to lay it our clearly, is a pretty good recipe for success. When laying out recipes for a cookbook, it is very important to consider a format that makes following the recipe simple.

I'm assuming you're going to be adding in an editorial wrap concerning wines and the differences in varietals, flavors, characteristics and such. That will flesh out your book. You may want to go into wine and food pairings as well.

Anyway, having had my own cookbook published, "Contemporary Brewhouse Cooking," I know first hand that you can get by without being a winner at the spelling bee!

Keep your chin up!

Mark

Jon:

It's a good thing that you don't venture into the Religious Research board. The conversation is a lot weightier than what you contribute to here, and if you spoke to people as you did above, you'd be put in your place pretty quickly.

Live by the sword.....

Mark