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Sacramento Living Library with Darrell Corti

at Time Tested Books

March 21, 2010

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Time Tested Books and Midtown Monthly are proud to announce the first installment in our 2010 Sacramento Living Library, a series of talks and lectures featuring some of Sacramento's most noted and interesting people. On March 21, we welcome Darrell Corti.

Darrell Corti is the son of Frank Corti, Co-Founder of Corti Brothers' Grocary with his brother Gino Corti in 1947. The Corti Brothers' mission was to expand the culinary experiences of Sacramentans by offering delicacies and wines not readily available elsewhere in the Sacramento area, thereby providing them with an appreciation for diverse cuisines.

Frank's goal to educate was literally embodied in his son Darrell, whose reputation for an encyclopedic knowledge of food and wines attracts queries from around the world. As told by Ruth Reichel, editor of Gourmet Magazine, in her memoir "Comfort Me with Apples," Colman Andrews, editor of Saveur Magazine described Darrell as the man "Who knows more about food and wine than anyone else in the world."

In 1967, as an insider's insider, Darrell started a newsletter, now in it's 38th year of publication, featuring rare, high quality food items and wines discovered during his travels in Europe and Asia. The newsletter is prized for it's wealth of information including essential details about a product's history, uses, modes of production and other esoteric information. Never dull, Darrell is known for free expression of his wide ranging opinions, which are often iconoclastic and seldom sugar-coated.

Darrell's contribution to the food and wine literacy of his friends, associates and customers has been considerable. He played a large role in the development of wine production in Amador County. He was made a Cavaliere, the Italian equivalent of knighthood, by the Italian Government, for his efforts in promoting Italian products, not the least of which was the almost single-handed introduction of Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale to America.