WHAT TO DRINK

If you are eating chicken wings Buffalo-style, grab a beer by all means. But for these Mediterranean-style chicken wings, flavored with lemon, garlic and herbs, I’d prefer a bracing Mediterranean white wine. I might like a vermentinu, as vermentinos are called on the island of Corsica. They tend to be a little more linear and mineral than those from Liguria. Or perhaps a French white from Cassis, a town outside Marseilles. You could try Etna Biancos, made from the carricante grape, or Greek whites, made from assyrtiko or moschofilero. Eat these wings with gallons of dry rosé, if you are feeling all summery, or try a dry sparkling wine — good cava, if you want to stay Mediterranean. And you wouldn’t be wrong if you stuck with beer.