Thanksgiving food and wine pairings

Ava, it looks great there. And if you're hosting the Thanksgiving meal or bringing the wine Anyway, you want to create an experience that makes the whole table feel grateful, right? So we've got Kyle Schwartz and I have this practice you tell me Schwartz and Druber the executive chef of table 301 restaurant group is here along with the beverage director Joe croissant. Welcome to you both This is gorgeous. Awesome. Thank you for having us first chef Kyle. You've got some amazing Thanksgiving staples here These are available as Thanksgiving to-go offerings. So what are the basics? Okay start off. We have a whole roasted oven turkey Mm-hmm. Nice crispy skin Beautiful juicy turkey. Yeah better than a lot of us most could dream of doing at home probably sure Cornbread stuffing a twist to a traditional stuffing and then we also have a sweet potato with candy pecans on it Oh really really beautiful mac and cheese just the basics and then you've got some some unique items too that people might not think to Make yeah, we have one which is a staple at Sobeys. It's a sweet corn mock shoe. And then we also have a roasted root vegetable Medley and then yeah, we also have a vegan option, which is a beet Wellington not to be confused for beef Well, not beef Wellington beet Wellington, but a lot of people love that, right? Yeah, and then of course a grand dessert is makes a really grand finale and it's famous right there Sure, you always need a sweet treat to finish it off and we have Sobeys famous White chocolate banana cream pie and also the traditional pumpkin pie Yeah, people people love all these staples, but you know, it's a lot of work to get it together So you wanted folks, you know They could order the full meal through table 301 or they could pick out individual dishes to complement their holiday meal if they don't want to Make every single thing the deadline is November 18th. These are fully cooked. The host just reheats them What what kinds of reactions do you get from this? Oh people are very excited because you know people like making their own turkey sometimes But then they're like I can't make stuffing and I would rather have a professional do it and that's where we come into play and You could order anything individually or you could order the whole set and just enjoy time with your family instead of spending it in the kitchen Right. I mean and you know how much time can be spent in a kitchen? So it's this time of year. They're a little bit stressed out Anyway, trying to get all the details together. They can just and they could pass this off. This looks beautiful Like yes, you know homemade would be now because certain foods do pair so well with certain wines We want to talk about wine pairings Joe croissant the beverage director here to talk about What wines go with what foods what do we need to think of overall on Thanksgiving first? Thanksgiving is pretty tricky because there's so many dishes normally if you have a plate, it's maybe two three four components Thanksgiving there's like 15,000 roughly. Yeah Turkey is a really low-fat item So red wine, but something light like Pinot Noir Beaujolais that has light tannin moderate to high acid pairs really well So if you're if you're gonna go red do it really light Yeah, you say for the most part this is a time to explore some some whites. Yeah whites roses with the stuffing I like converts remainder Alto adagio is in northern Italy. It literally has spice in the name. So the nice spicy Stuffing you have a nice spicy wine that goes with it Vegetables I drink sancerre sancerre is in the lower Valley of France. It has like a natural green herbaceousness to it So if you have nice vegetables Brussels sprouts those sorts of things and drink that kind of wine that brings that greenness to it And you can do some exploring this way. Maybe people who want to learn more about the wine pairings There's a fun event coming up Tuesday next week at Avenue I've talked to us a little about table 301s annual retail wine sale people love this, right? Yep so what we do is we get together a bunch of Our partners that sell us wine and they all bring wine and then we also bring the wine as well So I'll be there talking about wine if you want to sometimes I sign autographs while I'm there very rarely And we'll have about 80 bottles. It's $30 a ticket and If you buy a case you get your ticket price back because the fact is if you have a beautiful spread of wine You can get away with a lot of things on Thanksgiving virtually anything. Yeah, virtually anything or pick up This is great ideas easy to pick up. We appreciate it. Thank you guys for both coming in here access carolina.com We'll have the information for the the wine event and chef Kyle getting ready for the big meal. We appreciate it