Culinary Wine & Food Adventures
Career wine professional Randy Caparoso writes about wine strictly from the perspective of food because to him, wine is a food like a rose is a rose. You can enjoy of wealth of his wisdom on his personal page, Culinary Wine & Food Adventures.
He is perhaps best known as a founding partner and award winning wine director of the Roy's restaurant group. A published, Academy of Wine Communications commended wine journalist since 1981, he has also lived and opened restaurants everywhere from Hawaii to New York, California to Florida, Chicago to Texas, and in more than twenty more places in between.
Please feel free to contact Randy directly to share any of your own thoughts and feedback at randycaparoso@earthlink.net.
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- Organic wines you can sink your teeth into
- California's Master of Cabernet Franc
- Greg La Follette's Extreme Winemaking
- Albariño, the Gastronomic Grape
- Is Lodi making California's best Zinfandels?
- Ugly Duckling Wines At The 2008 Santé Restaurant Symposium
- Poems of Wine's Illusions
- How Is Your Contemporary Grape IQ?
- Favorite Food, Wine & Drinking Songs
- Central Otago Pinot Noir: Our Latest, Greatest, Most Cinematic Wine Frontier
- The Memphis Blues Again (Soul & Barbecue Wine Matches)
- Dragging Wine Lists Out of the Dark Ages
- The Memphis Blues Again (Soul & Barbecue Wine Matches)
- Red Wine with Fish, Revisited
- Restaurant vs. Retail Wine Sales -- Who's to Blame?
- Wine, Cheese & Culinary Debauchery
- Rediscovery of Gold in the Sierra Foothills!
- The Grand Illusion
- Secrets of Harvests Past
- Riesling - The Cinderella of Wine Grapes
- You Say Pinot Gris, I Say Pinot Grigio
- Chianti: as old as the hills, as high as fashion
- F Is for Flavor, G for Grapes
- Basic Principles of Food and Wine Matching
- Seven Ways to Improve Your Wine Life
- The Acid Test - Sauvignon Blanc
- Chicken Everybody Loves (Update!)
- Big Chardonnays Make a Splash with Food (Update!)
- The Taste of Brett in Wine (Update!)
- Deconstructing Umami
- Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
- What Wine with Sushi? (Update!)
- Zinfandel is Autumn Under Glass
- American Pinot Noirs at a Crossroads
- Oh Lord, Lodi!
- The compelling call of Walla Walla
- Is Riesling the Greatest White Wine For Food?
- Big California wines: Through the past brightly
- The once and future Pinot Gris
- 2003: Just like Tom Thumb's wines
- Holiday wine buying for tough cookies
- Classic wines for everyday prices
- Wine, women and the price of a song
- Is Pinot Noir the ultimate food wine?
- Wine, food & redefining cool
- Napa Valley -- A legacy of greatness
- California's Family Winemakers
- The summer side of wine
- The first historical "Sake Summit"
- The taste of "brett" in wine
- Understanding and cooking for the new chilled sakes
- Dreams of Velvety Reds
- The Beef is Back!
- Soil vs. Climate: Does the Hat Make the Man?
- The Great Winemakers of Today
- A Plot as Thick as Zinfandel
- Reconsidering the Oyster
- 2002: A New Wine Odyssey
- A Strategy for Holiday Wine Shopping, 2001
- Celebrate the Great American Turkey with a Great Wine!
- Simple minds enjoy wine better!
- Tie Me Kangaroo, and Other Great Wines of South Australia
- Sonoma's Happy Golden Years
- Gold in Them (Santa Rita) Hills
- Wine Labels and Fables
- The Discreet Charm of Rhone Style Reds
- The Truth Is Out There!
- Calling All Grapes!
- The Drunken Samurai's Way of Wine and Food
- The Wine Wizard of Umbria
- Wine Miracles by the Bucket
- My Dinner With Kermit
- Dining Out With the Gods
- The ABCs of Wine
- Matching the Hot-Sour-Salty-Sweet Foods of Asia
- Wines That Are Rocking the New Millennium
- The High Spark of Low Heeled Wines
- Does "Fusion" Equal Wine-Confusion?
- When in Rome, or the Hawaiian Islands
- Wine's Simplest Pleasures Are the Best
- Great Wines Make for Great Chicken
- Great Plonk - and New Classic Reds - From Down Under
- Sake - The "Wine" of the Future?
- A World of Wines Awaits You
- Food and Wine in the "City"
- A bowlful of Pinots!
- The Continuing Restaurant Harangue
- Awash in a River of Rhones
- What-the-Cotton-Pickin' Wines for Summer
- The Fusion of Food and Wine
- Your Mother's Son-in-Law
- Other White Wines for Other White Meats
- Good Corks, Bad Corks
- The Happening Wines of Chile
- Winespeak Made Easy
- Ordering Wine in a Romantic Restaurant
- Paris 1976 Revisited
- Bests and Worsts of 1999
- Wines for the Next Millennium
- New Wines for New Hawaiian Cooking
- Champagne or Nothing
- Wines Worthy Of The Noble Turkey
- Oregon Pinots Gone Amuck
- The Truth About Wines and Foods
- Big California Chardonnays Make a Splash With Food
- The New Variety Of "Old" Italian Wines
SPECIAL REPORT: Highlights from Germany - Excursions through the Baden, Pfalz, Rheingau & Mosel-Saar-Ruwer Regions in July 18-29, 1999.