Dale Rice has had a passion for food since his mother let him stand on a kitchen chair to stir the cake batter and then lick the bowl at the tender age of 5. Restaurant critic and wine writer for the Austin American-Statesman, he has been writing about the local food scene for the last 12 years. He lives in South Austin with 1,500 cookbooks and a 100-year-old wagon wheel for a pot rack.
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By Dale Rice
| Friday, May 16, 2008, 04:01 PM
Robert Mondavi, the vintner who helped propel California to its status as one of the world’s great wine-producing regions, died today, according to a spokesman for the winery. He was 94.
A few years ago, I interviewed Mondavi when he was the honored winemaker at the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival. When I asked him whether he thought the rules of wine drinking — red with this, white with that — could be intimidating, he replied that all the old guidelines should be thrown out and replaced with a single protocol:
“Drink what you like, and like what you drink.”
Of all the recommendations I’ve heard in the years I’ve been writing about food and wine, that was the wisest.
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