{"id":21611,"date":"2014-12-01T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=21611"},"modified":"2014-12-05T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T15:04:17","slug":"wine-pairing-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wine-pairing-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pairing Wine and Lunch in the CBC Fridge for the Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y_p-v547tAY?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CBC All in a Day host Alan Neal and I sneak into the CBC kitchen to snoop into employee lunches and pair them with wine. You can listen to our chat above from the drive-home show.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually not as weird (or creepy) as it sounds &#8230; we&#8217;re kicking off the final 3 days of Food Fantasy fundraising for the Food Bank, with prizes like ha<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TwoBooksRWD1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21614\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TwoBooksRWD1-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"TwoBooksRWD1\" width=\"207\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TwoBooksRWD1-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/TwoBooksRWD1.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>ving a sommelier come to your home and pair wine and food for you and 11 friends.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being your personal sommelier for an evening, I&#8217;ll also bring along 12 signed copies of my book Red, White and Drunk All Over, and 12 bottles of my favourite value-priced gift wines as part of your prize.<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do, is <strong>make a donation of any amount<\/strong> to the Food Bank here:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/payment.csfm.com\/donations\/ofb\/index.php?form_type=cbc\">https:\/\/payment.csfm.com\/donations\/ofb\/index.php?form_type=cbc<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Specify in the &#8220;Comments&#8221; blank that you want to win the wine and food pairing evening prize with yours truly.<\/p>\n<p>You only have until 11:59 pm Thursday, December 4 to do this, as prizes will be drawn on Friday&#8217;s show &#8212; donate now!<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t live in the Ottawa\/Gatineau area, you can give your prize to a friend or relative here (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-gift-bag-wine-B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-21615\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-gift-bag-wine-B-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"christmas gift bag wine B\" width=\"86\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-gift-bag-wine-B-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-gift-bag-wine-B.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 86px) 100vw, 86px\" \/><\/a>wait until you&#8217;re in town visiting to have the evening then).<\/p>\n<p>Or you can simply donate some cash and indicate this prize in &#8220;Comments&#8221; but ask that another name of someone who lives here locally be drawn for it.<\/p>\n<p>We may not be able to give wine to the Food Bank, but we certainly can share the great feeling of community. So let&#8217;s raise a glass together for a good cause, and help the Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CBC-heart-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21613 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CBC-heart-logo-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"CBC heart logo\" width=\"144\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CBC-heart-logo-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CBC-heart-logo.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a>From CBC&#8217;s site:<\/p>\n<p><b>Matching Wine and Food with Natalie MacLean:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The editor of Canada\u2019s largest wine review site (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.nataliemaclean.com<\/a>) will host a personally guided wine-tasting with food pairings in your home for you and 11 friends.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie has also agreed to bring a dozen signed copies of her best-selling book, \u201cRed, White and Drunk All Over,\u201d and to sign a dozen bottles of her favourite value-priced gift wines for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Give a book-and-bottle set to each of your guests, or hoard them for yourself as Christmas presents \u2014 it\u2019s up to you.<\/p>\n<p>After your evening, Natalie will be available to you, the host, for additional boozy advice for your holiday entertaining by phone, email or even a message in a bottle floated down the Ottawa River.<\/p>\n<p>Posted with permission of CBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC All in a Day host Alan Neal and I sneak into the CBC kitchen to snoop into employee lunches and pair them with wine. You can listen to our chat above from the drive-home show. It&#8217;s actually not as weird (or creepy) as it sounds &#8230; we&#8217;re kicking off the final 3 days of Food Fantasy fundraising for the Food Bank, with prizes like having a sommelier come to your home and pair wine and food for you and 11 friends. In addition to being your personal sommelier for an evening, I&#8217;ll also bring along 12 signed copies of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,8,10,47,29,1148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-wines","category-events","category-food-wine-pairing","category-book-red-white-drunk","category-taste-wine","category-wine-tasting-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21611"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21634,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611\/revisions\/21634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}