Anatomy of a Dinner Party: a day in the life of a hospitalityaholic
 

November 19th, 2009

...now browsing by day

 

The Great Popeyes & Wine Pairing Experiment

Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Our Tasting Crew

Our Tasting Crew

When Hardy Wallace of Dirty South Wine and Murphy-Goode Winery’s winner of “A Very Goode Job”, tells you he is organizing a wine and fast food pairing, people listen. They may giggle at the thought, but they listen all the same.

If you have ever met Hardy you would know that the party is wherever he is. He is the party. His bubbly optimism gets everybody fired up, me included. So I was all for having friends come by for some Popeyes Fried Chicken and wine.

Eric called in our order (two orders of the Tailgater, which meant 48 pieces of chicken). When he arrived to pick up the food, he was told by the manager that ours was the third big call-in order of the night – what’s going on? Eric told him of the wine pairings going on all over the country – the folks at Popeyes had no idea, but they were tickled by the thought. And the business.

More Food Than I Thought We Could Consume. I Was Wrong.

More Food Than I Thought We Could Consume. I Was Wrong.

Click to continue »