As wine becomes more popular with an ever-wider range of people, it will continue to be enjoyed with an increasingly broad range of foods. It used to be that wine was solely thought of in terms of accompanying fine foods (in the case of high-end wines) and Italian foods (generally in the case of Italian wines). But these days, as more people begin to understand that wine is just as much a part of everyday life as food and water, it is being paired with everything from potato chips to pizza. And within this category of snack foods, there is an exciting array of wines that can not only be paired well, but that can also be enhanced by the kind of foods that, just a few short years ago, would never have been thought of with wine.rnrnBefore the big Thanksgiving dinner, a few hours prior to the holiday feast, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, fruits and nuts always seem to find a way into the American snacking pantheon. But what do you pair with them? Well, as with so much else, it depends on what you're eating: Bananas foster for dessert demands a different wine than a plate of sliced Granny Smith apples, and honey-roasted cashews will benefit from a totally different wine than will salted pistachios. Will the tropical flavors of a summer fruit salad taste better or worse with an oaky California chardonnay? And what about an apple pie for dessert - is there a wine for that one? Read on to find out.
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