Mead is made for more than just the dessert course! Emily Hutto talked to a handful of the country’s best mead makers to get their favorite mead and food pairings you can try yourself.
“I’m a mead ambassador,” says Chrissie Manion Zaerpoor, the owner at Kookoolan World Meadery and Tasting Room in Yamhill, Oregon. “I want people to get seduced by mead.”
According to Zaerpoor, part of that seduction is experiencing mead alongside food, a topic in which she’s well-versed—she has contributed multiple food pairing articles to the American Mead Maker journal, and she’s currently writing and self-publishing a book about mead and food.