Cider: The Other White Wine
One of the upsides to our recent trip to Montreal was the chance to stock up on some excellent Quebecois hard ciders. I say “hard cider” here because we’re talking about the alcoholic product, not pressed apple juice. It drives cider-makers crazy that people use the same word for both products, pointing out that we […]
One of the upsides to our recent trip to Montreal was the chance to stock up on some excellent Quebecois hard ciders. I say “hard cider” here because we’re talking about the alcoholic product, not pressed apple juice. It drives cider-makers crazy that people use the same word for both products, pointing out that we don’t call grape juice “wine,” and that cider really should just refer to fermented apple juice.
In any case, we’ve sipped our way through a couple of bottles and the drinking has been very good. One favorite: this “Ros
Amy Traverso
Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee magazine and co-host of the public television series Weekends with Yankee, a coproduction with WGBH. Previously, she was food editor at Boston magazine and an associate food editor at Sunset magazine. Her work has also been published in The Boston Globe, Saveur, and Travel & Leisure, and she has appeared on Hallmark Home & Family, The Martha Stewart Show, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Amy is the author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, which was a finalist for the Julia Child Award for best first-time author and won an IACP Cookbook Award in the “American” category.
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