Wine Recommendations

iPad lovers spend lots of time reading, reviewing, surfing, and social networking on their iPad’s. With this in mind, some of today’s top apps for iPad go beyond just offering pairings. These versatile apps offer a complete education on wine. If you’re interested in learning a lesson or two about the wine you’re planning to buy or if you’re brand new to the world of wine, the 5 apps listed below will teach you the 5 W’s of wine and exactly what to buy.

You don’t have to be a sommelier or cellar master to select the best wines for something as simple as a romantic dinner for two or as elaborate as a seven-course meal for family and friends. With today’s top wine apps for iPhone, wine amateurs, and just below advanced level wine lovers alike, can help you do everything from better understand the complexities of wine to pairing it with dinners and desserts. Whatever your reason for seeking help on the subject of wine, the following 5 apps will do just fine:

Patagonian toothfish? That’s the real fish behind the so-called Chilean sea bass, not even in the bass family. Marketing geniuses correctly believed their coined name might make the fish more desirable. Authentic sea bass has firmer, denser flesh than its mimic, and comes in several versions: black sea bass appears in Chinese cuisine, red and black groupers are used in Latin countries’ cooking, white sea bass tends to come from Mexico and Hapu’upu’u hails from Hawaii.

I never knew that The HoneyBaked Ham Company had the monopoly on honey-baked hams for many years until spiral cutter inventor Harry Hoenselaar’s patent finally ran out in 1981. At that point other companies, such as Smithfield, joined the game. These other companies used cutters based on the same principle as Hoenselaar’s, creating one continuous slice around the bone. However, Hoenselaar wasn’t only known for the cutter, but he also devised a secret marinade, smoked each ham for hours over assorted hardwood chip types, then sealed the ham with his sweet, signature glaze, resulting in a crunchy, crackly wrapper. The Honey Baked Ham Company started in 1957 as one store in Detroit and has grown to over 400 stores run by his children and grandchildren.

“Mama Mia – that’s a spicy meatball!” – the exclamation leads to the belief that the fare hailed from Italy, but the origin of the meatball and the spaghetti and meatballs dish is unclear. We know that generally, households used leftover or unused parts of meat with day-old bread or bread crumbs to stretch their use over several days. The now-popular spaghetti and meatballs meal seems to have originated in the United States, as Italians normally did not make a practice of serving meat with their pasta, rather, they would cook meats and use the sauce from the meat to cover their pasta, a way of stretching their own meals.