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Event ID #263384

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What food, what drink can lay claim to be more basic to civilization than bread and wine? Naturally they go together in metaphor and in spirit. But at the dinner table? If we think about bread in connection with wine at all, it's most likely as a side dish, something to push a bite of your main course onto the fork or sop up the gravy. Or served during wine judging to "cleanse the palate" between tastes, chosen specifically because it presumably does not alter one's impression of the wine.

But bread and wine together, playing off each other as a direct food-and-wine pairing? It's not a concept that would occur to the average wine lover. This isn't quite as crazy as it sounded. Fresh-baked French bread, made with care and given plenty of time for a slow, cool rise to develop its subtle, sweet-nutty wheaten flavor, is a treat good enough to enjoy contemplatively - not unlike a fine wine - and that's even before you slather on the butter.

Put them together and give them a little attention, and the results are ... going to surprise you.  Join us Friday night as we pair up a selection of wines with local baker Bruce Ezzel, owner of The Bread List (http://www.thebreadlist.com/) and taste these magical combinations.

$15 advance / $20 at the door.