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Dinner with Darrell Corti

Dinner for 4 at the home of Darrell Corti, owner of Corti Brothers Italian Grocery Store in Sacramento, served with wines from his personal cellar. As told by Ruth Reichel, editor of Gourmet Magazine, in her memoir Comfort Me with Apples, Colman Andrews, editor of Saveur Magazine, described Darrell as the man "who knows more about food and wine than anyone else in the world."
In 1967, as an insider's insider, Darrell started a newsletter, now in its 38th year of publication, featuring rare, high quality food items and wines discovered during his travels in Europe and Asia.  The newsletter is prized for its wealth of information including essential details about a product's history, uses, modes of production and other esoteric information.  Never dull, Darrell is known for free expression of his wide ranging opinions, which are often iconoclastic and seldom sugar-coated.
Darrell's contribution to the food and wine literacy of his friends, associates and customers has been considerable. He played a large role in the development of wine production in Amador County. He was made a Cavaliere, the Italian equivalent of knighthood, by the Italian Government, for his efforts in promoting Italian products, not the least of which was the almost single-handed introduction of Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale to America.

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