Three rules cover almost every meal: match weight to weight, use acid against fat and salt, and pair the sauce not the protein. Written for a kosher table.
The safest way to open wine without a corkscrew is to push the cork in with a wooden spoon handle. Six methods ranked by how likely they are to cost you the bottle.
Sulfites keep wine from turning to vinegar, and they are almost certainly not your headache. Here is what they do, why no wine is sulfite free, and what to buy.
Cool, dark, still, and on its side. Here is the right temperature, the best free spot in any apartment, and which bottles actually need careful storage.
A five-ounce glass of dry wine is about 120 to 130 calories, and sweet wine is 160 to 200. Here is the full table by style, plus the label trick that lets you estimate any bottle.
It is almost certainly not the sulfites. Here is what actually causes wine headaches, why dried apricots carry more sulfites than a whole bottle, and what to drink instead.
Most open wine lasts three to five days in the fridge. How long each style really keeps, why refrigerating red wine works, and what actually slows oxidation.
