About The Winemakers' Cooking Companion Cookbook

Sip, Sizzle & Celebrate— About The Book

The Winemakers' Cooking Companion cookbook includes over 100 recipes from winemakers, winery chefs and winery owners from 18 countries. Author T. Mullen compiled these recipes over several years, test cooking them and arranging them according to season. Measuring units are both American and metric, and vegetarian and vegan recipes are identified.

Work on this book began a decade ago.

The idea came while I sat in the shade of a tree in the garden of a Bordeaux winemaking couple. They served Zucchini Cucumber Gazpacho on a hot spring day, together with glasses of Chablis wine. Suddenly a notion came—winemakers have developed their senses of taste. Surely that also applies to food? That became the premise of this cookbook.

To find out whether this is true, I contacted wineries throughout the world and collected all of the included recipes.

Subconsciously, the idea may also have originated years earlier when I wrote a fictional book titled River of Tuscany. One chapter is based on the life of Pelligrino Artusi—a 19th century Romagna born (and later Florence based) silk merchant who traveled throughout Tuscany and other regions of Italy for business. He ate at small, family-owned trattorie restaurants and considered much of the food delicious. He decided to collect family recipes and then self-published a now famous book titled La Scienza in cucina e l'Arte di mangiar bene—or, Science in The Kitchen and The Art of Eating Well.

Let Me Notify You When The Book Is Published

This cookbook will be published on June 12th, 2026. If you want to be notified when it is published, click the blue box below. If you have already signed up for this new website (which is free and requires no obligation) then follow the directions after the blue box below.

At the end of June I'll put all names of those who contacted me into a hat, shake it around and then randomly select three people who will also receive free copies of my book Vino Voices (to be republished in hardback/paperback this summer).

Click here, or the 'Testimonials' tab, to read glowing reviews about The Winemakers' Cooking Companion cookbook from more than 20 professionals who work in the fields of wine and food.

The book is published by Roundwood Press.

This Site

This site includes information about the cookbook The Winemakers' Cooking Companion and tells how to order a copy.

We also encourage you to visit T. Mullen's Vino Voices site to read regular posts about this book and other wine, food, travel and lifestyle related topics, as well as to subscribe to a newsletter that includes free recipes and wine reviews.

Signing up for this site means that you will be notified when the cookbook is published, and also enters you into a lottery to win T. Mullen's book titled Vino Voices—Wine, Work, Travel, Life. It also gives you free access to more than 400 articles that I wrote for Forbes over a decade.

Author T. Mullen

Click here to learn more.

Follow me on Instagram at @tjlmullen or at @VinoVoices.