There is a synergy to food and wine matching that makes food taste marvelous and wine scale new heights. The right choices can make the dinner between a good dinner and a great one. Two of Canada's top food and wine authorities – Lucy Waverman and James Chatto – successfully capture this trend in their new book, A Matter of Taste: Inspired Seasonal Menus with Wines and Spirits to Match. A Matter of Taste highlights the seasons, with themed menus, time-saving fast-and-fresh dinners and fascinating sidebars about ingredients and cooking techniques. Suggested apeitifs, wines and cocktails complement each menu and its occasion with the whys and wherefores explored in irreverent prose. Much more than a cookbook, A Matter of Taste is meant to be read and savoured, preferably with a cocktail or glass of wine in hand. Photographer Rob Fiocca, whose work is regularly featured in Gourmet magazine, beautifully interprets the authors' elegant, effortless style with his striking colour and black-and-white photography. The result is a gorgeous gourmet cookbook with a difference, the perfect marriage of superb menus and fine writing – the season's best offering. | Matter Of Taste by Lucy Waverman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters