"I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food." W.C. Fields The Wine Questionnaire follows in the spirit of our popular Proust Questionnaire and Fashion Questionnaire, using the format of Proust's handy interview helper--here reworked by Jay McInerney--to ask everything about wine, from your favourite region to your choice food pairings. In addition to responses of discerning oenophiles, there are blank questionnaires in the back to share with friends, this title will reveal more than you might imagine. Featured Questionnaire Responses by: Sofia Coppola Academy Award-winning screenwriter, film director, and producer Robert M. Parker, Jr. Renowned wine expert, founder of The Wine Advocate, and contributing editor for Food and Wine Magazine and Business Week Andre Balazs Hotelier AUTHOR: Jay McInerney is a novelist whose work includes Bright Lights, Big City; Ransom; Story of My Life; Brightness Falls; and The Last of the Savages. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). His most recent novel, titled The Good Life, was published in 2006, and since April 2010 he has been a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. ILLUSTRATIONS: 40 images
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