No wonder so many wineries serve these delicious crackers.
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These simple, delicious crackers with a slightly sweet finish are great with wine, as an anytime snack with coffee or tea, or as a light dessert.
3684651
In close to 50 years in the food and wine business, I've seen a lot of cookbooks. Only a handful have kept me up late at night reading them, this one did for sure, then it continued to haunt me in my dreams. Outstanding recipes and stunning photography, enough to make an Old Hermit leave the backwoods of Oregon and head to The City. Congratulations on a very fine book, Food Porn at it's best.
Jim Barfield
Former Wine instructor, School For American Chef at Beringer Vineyards
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I'm a long time lover of raisinets.  How can a person go wrong with raisins that just happen to have chocolate on the outside.  Raisins are healthy, right? These are one of my favorite snacks and I rarely go to the movies without a box of these in hand.

Let me share a true story about my history with raisins.  I used to work in the grape fields of California and I know exactly how the process of turning grapes into raisins works - unless the process has changed in the past 45 years and it probably has.  But, in those days, beautiful green raisin grapes would be cut from the vines by farm workers using those little grape harvesting hook knives, then the grapes would be laid out on paper trays in the long rows that run between the vines.  Once the sun had burned down on the grapes, the side facing the sun would begin to dry and shrivel up within a few days.

Then, farm workers (as I was then) would be hired to come and "turn raisins" which involved the following process.  We worked in pairs with an unused set of paper trays (actually just large brown pieces of square paper).  We would take one paper tray and  place it on top of the paper tray the grapes were originally placed upon with each worker taking hold of two corners.  We would then flip the tray over, which would expose the grapes on the underside for their time in the sun.  Eventually, the grapes would all be dried up and Voila! - you have raisins.

Workers would then go back into the fields, wrap the tray containing the raisins, into a nice tight bundle - this was called "folding raisins"  and it involved crawling or bending over all day long.  Then someone else would come along and pick up all the bundles of raisins.  I have no idea what the process involved after the field work was completed.  I can only tell you that "turning raisins" walking down row after row all day long  with your body bent over or "folding raisins" - crawling and bending over was very hard work.  Plus, we moved through those rows at the speed of light - often having little contests to see who worked the fastest.

My father was known as one of the fastest raisin turners in our neck of the country.  Thankfully, I eventually graduated from high school, got an office job and no longer had to work in the fields.  But, I'll never forget those days.  If you read this, hopefully, it will give you something to think about the next time you eat these lovely raisins.  Lots of hard work often goes into the process.  Most people have no idea.
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I do not know anyone who does not like these light, buttery crackers.  They go with anything, but I think my favorite way to consume them is with a tossed salad.  When growing up, it was a luxury for the cracker basket to have little packets of Club crackers alongside the typical saltine crackers.  That happy feeling I got back then (kind of like getting the "good" prize from the cracker jack box) is burned into my memory.  And the bigger packs are easier to open without breaking the cracker into several pieces before you ever get it into your hand!
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I don't always drink wine, but when I do, I prefer Mr Picky's wine glasses.  It tells me how much I've had to get the right amount.  The distinctive high quality glass has the right feel, not too large or small.  I highly recommend them to all of my friends!
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First let me say these are the best tasting gluten free crackers out there. However, every box was essentially filled with cracker shards. I know that many people had commented on that issue in their reviews but I thought how bad could it really be? Bad. Each cracker was broken into at least five pieces if not more. I had one box that was *almost* whole crackers and I felt like I had won the lottery. I don't care that they're messy, but I couldn't (or perhaps wouldn't?) serve spreads on them to company. For myself and family however, I don't care. They are delicious with cheese, sandwhich meat, etc. I have two more cases on their way!
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They are so crunchy and full of grains that compliment the over all taste of the crackers.  Yet, they are not overwhelming. You can eat them with Tuna Salad, Egg Salad, Chicken Salad; what ever suits your fancy.  I am so glad I was able to find them on  your website becasue no grocery store stocks this product.  Thanks.
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These crackers are really good. Crunchy. Nutty. Substantial. A little on the expensive side but in time of more people catch on to products like these the price may go down.
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Zraly's book illustrates the world of wine with lavish visual appeal.  In real life there's no substitute for tasting a wide variety of wines.  But if you don't have years to build up your own tastes, advice from experts helps a lot.  This volume may not suit those who want the Advanced Graduate Course in the World's Price-No-Object Wines.  Wines here are common enough so you can expect to find them on a wine list.  So most readers will find tasty ideas worth remembering from the Windows on the World Complete Wine Course.

There's a lot of detail and wine industry lore in Zraly's book in addition to his lists of widely available wines.  If you study carefully, you can become a knowledgeable consumer of wine, and with luck inspire interesting remarks from the sommelier.  Scattered through the book you'll find references to more focused volumes "for further reading."  Yes, it takes a lot more than reading one book to make a valued sommelier.

I'm a very visual learner, so the maps of the world's wine regions helped me understand much better the differences in flavors.  Thirty years ago, I tasted many Bordeaux wines and developed my own list of favorites in St-Estephe and St-Julien.  (Your tastes will differ, and that's the point of doing a lot of tasting.)

In the mean time, American vintners have developed remarkable wine making skill.  I've come to appreciate some remarkably complex Napa Valley Cabernets with an independent flavor worth sipping with clean bread.  And I've enjoyed some delightfully fruity Willamette Pinot Noirs that go especially well with raspberries and kisses.

This book helped me update my knowledge of wines, which I haven't purchased since the last time I ate at Windows on the World.  So there was a lot to absorb and the book did a fine job of helping me to learn the general field quickly.  In the next lessons, I have to think carefully about the flavors of the wines I encounter, and remember them well.  The systematic organization of this book can help a reader put the wines  in context and compare the flavors more easily.  So beyond merely recommending vintages, I have to score this book high for helping the reader learn to compare wines and make a decent guess about wines he or she has not tasted yet.
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Their delicious and fresh. Not too many broken ones.
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While these crackers are delicious and a crowd pleaser in the lunch boxes. We get them for $1.89 at 99 Ranch market.
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What a great spread! I love to have it with crackers and goat cheese and of course, wine. This is so different and wonderful. You won't regret it and will immediately stock up on more!
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Love these, they're so delicious and basically a hidden treasure that not many people around here know about.
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It's hard to believe that someone so picky like me can find something so healthy to be delicious.
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I like that these oysters are packed in healthy olive oil.  They are also really delicious.  A can of these over the top of a salad turns it into a meal.
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Though a bit pricey, they make a good snack.
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It is so nice to find someone so down to earth, realistic and at the same time picky about what makes them happy in wine.  He does not "score" wine, he tells you, in a beautiful manner why he likes the wines.  How the back stories, mystery and people that work the land, are therefore shaped by it make wine enjoyable not an arbitrary number assigned by a certain person in Monkton, Maryland.  The French attitude toward wine has morphed, even since the writing of this book, with the globalization of tastes propagated by scores and a general "sameness" with everything in our world.  However living 20 minutes from Kermit Lynch's wine shop in Berkeley, I can promise you that he has not bent to any market trends, and after reading this book, perhaps neither will you.