Wine

Cathal McBride: Make wine your winning ingredient

World Food Day brings a timely reminder that we should not let food go to waste, and one way to do that is to include any leftover wine in your cooking

When using wine as the base for a sauce or an addition to a braise, you should treat it as an integral part of the components. Picture: Getty

Sunday is World Food Day, a date designed to raise awareness of how important it is to be less wasteful with what we consume. Wine, like food, is a commodity to be savoured and enjoyed. But there is never any harm in reminding ourselves to be a little thriftier and get the most out of the wines we buy.

There are many reasons why a bottle might not be consumed in one sitting. Likewise, you ...