The beer menu includes the usual suspects of Haufbrau and Radeberger, and the food pairing of Bavarian pretzel and gooey macaroni and cheese are worth saving room for.

BBC: The wiedergeburt (rebirth) of New York��s biergartens

In over 90 minutes of video, readers can follow along with guided tastings, including many illustrating food pairing principles, or watch demonstrations of practical skills from opening bottles to ordering in restaurants. at home and click to hear wine names pronounced.

FORBES: Interactive E-book Aims to Simplify Wine

What was unique about this is that all 2000 dinner guests spread throughout Mortons restaurants nationwide were experiencing the same food and wine pairing at the exact same time.

FORBES: Creating A Virtual Dining Experience

It would be enough if Jeannie Cho Lee had just offered a handy guide to pairing Asian food dishes with appropriate wines, thus assisting Westerners grappling with some less familiar flavor combinations at their meals as well as the burgeoning numbers in Asia acquainting themselves with the fermented grape.

FORBES: Asian Food and Wine Pairs: Help!

Along with the chance to sample more than 90 beers from microbreweries as far afield as New Zealand and Estonia, the festival offers lectures on home brewing and pairing beer with food.

BBC: Craft beers come to Hong Kong

Authors Davidson, Bondi and Smith point out that the odd pairing of global and local sensibilities is part of what attracts Westerners to fast food restaurants abroad.

BBC: Would you like fries with that Maharaja Mac?