Italian Wine for Dummies

Mary Ewing-Mulligan and Ed McCarthy are two wine lovers whose stars crossed at an Italian wine tasting in New York City's Chinatown in 1981, leading to personal and professional partnership. Besides co-authoring seven wine books, they've taught hundreds of wine classes together, visited nearly every wine region of the world, run five marathons, and raised ten cats. Together, they've amassed more than half a century of professional wine experience. Mary grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. Immediately after college, she took a position at the Italian Trade Commission, where she dicovered her love of wine and of Italy, and began sharing that passion with other Americans. She is now president of International Wine Center, a New York City wine school where she teaches classes mainly for wine professionals; she's also wine columnist for the NY Daily News. Mary's proudest credential is being America's first female Master of Wine (MW), one of only 18 MW's in America and 233 worldwide. Ed, a New Yorker, graduated from City University of NY with a Master's degree in psychology. He taught high school English as his day job, all the while working part time in wine shops to satisfy his passion for wine. He began writing about wine in 1985, and in 1995 co-authored, with Mary, the best-selling Wine For Dummies; in 1999, he went solo as author of Champagne For Dummies, a topic in which he's particularly keen. He and Mary share a wine column in Nation's Restaurant News, and he also writes for Wine Enthusiast Magazine and Underground Wine Journal. Ed and Mary are both Certified Wine Educators (CWE). Mary and Ed admit to leading thoroughly unbalanced lives in which their only non-wine pursuits are jogging and picnicking in the Alps - when they find the time. At home, they wind down to the tunes of Bob Dylan and Neil Young, in the company of their feline roommates, Leoville, Pinot, Brunello, Dolcetto, Clicquot, and Black and Whitey.McCarthy, Ed is the author of 'Italian Wine for Dummies' with ISBN 9780764553554 and ISBN 0764553550.