Emily Clifton edits movies and TV shows and her husband, Matt, runs an I.T. consulting firm, but their common passion is food. Since 2013, they've posted the recipes they create on their blog, Nerds With Knives. Along the way, they noticed that most of their recipes had a common ingredient _ booze. Their new cookbook, "Cork and Knife," shares 75 recipes that have some form of alcohol _ wine, beer, bourbon or other spirits _ as an ingredient.
"We started to really look at why alcohol plays such an important role in developing flavor," they write in the cookbook's intro. "We're not talking about getting drunk off your pan sauce (although we won't judge, if that's your thing), but about layering flavors to add complexity and depth to dishes."
They describe this chicken dish as a "lighter, creamier cousin" of coq au vin, with lots of Riesling white wine substituting for the red wine of the iconic French stew.
